A new paper provides sub-national GDP estimates going back 700 years. How do they do this? Using data on famous historical figures. Here's the breakdown:

This is a piece of work standing on the shoulders of giants. Thanks to everyone who directly or indirectly contributed to this study. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We figured out how much water is in all of Earth’s plants and how long it takes water to flow through them. Answer: 786 km3 and 5-18 days. Nature Water Koen Hufkens (@[email protected]) Adam Purdy

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Drought Impacts on Plant–Soil Carbon Allocation—Integrating Future Mean Climatic Conditions 📄 buff.ly/sQpVP5p

I’m thrilled to share our diversity-stability study on Science Magazine Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our review highlights the important role of climate warming-induced changes in nutrient availability, demand, and limitation in constraining biogeochemical feedback to future CO2 enrichment.doi.org/10.1007/s40641…

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Incorporating Drought Thresholds Improves Model Predictions of Autumn Phenology in Tropical and Subtropical Forests 📄 buff.ly/Odx66am

The species-area relationship explained: why does the species area relationship exhibits three phases across spatial scales? Our paper solving this decades old mistery is out in Nature Communications. A thread👇1/#

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You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right? Why is that? This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning. This is consistent with Gelman's

📢 Big news for inequality researchers & policy-makers! UNU-WIDER has just released a major update to the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) — the most comprehensive source of global income inequality data. wider.unu.edu/news/unu-wider… 🧵👇

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