New paper alert: Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping Paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… Data: developers.google.com/earth-engine/t… #EarthEngine #geospatial #eochat

Day 1 of the SAEON-GSN R workshop with our guest speaker Joseph D.M. White and MsKai

Why do fires stop spreading? Thresholds are fundamental! Tl;dr Fire spread is not a linear process 🔥 On PNASNews /w @stavercarla @SallyArchibald Corli Coetsee Tercia Strydom and others not on Twitter pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 1/n

Another exciting R online workshop to be hosted by the SAEON GSN. This workshop will be on Introduction to Spatial Data in R Save the dates: 19 and 20 July 2022 Register here to attend docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Encourage your kids to foster their connection with nature by joining our #FunWithFlora Kids Holiday Workshop between 12-14 July. Children aged 8-12 are invited to join us, as we learn how to grow and pollinate plants, and become floral artists. For more: bit.ly/3OUpD28

Excited to share TWO more OPALS studentship opportunities using fine-scale remote sensing with #UAV systems to support the sustainable management of rangelands through fully funded masters at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources tinyurl.com/46ukyrsp

What an amazing day as my FIRST paper is out today in Global Change Biology! #OpenAccess With Caroline Lehmann, we show that woody encroachment leads to declines in herbaceous diversity across grasslands and savannas worldwide doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16…

Is this a tiny alien? Nope! It's a non-photosynthetic plant that derives nutrition from fungi & part of a fascinating lineage that we recently described as a new family, Afrothismiaceae, with Martin Cheek, Sean Graham & Paula Rudall biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Photo by Vincent Merckx

New paper out with Anabelle Cardoso and William Bond on how fire-sensitive forests survive in flammable savanna landscapes in Africa, and how to go about conserving these systems frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #OpenAccess

The #JWO grant and Hayley Clements and her awesome work mapping Africa’s biodiversity intactness! Have a read! ogresearchconservation.org/africa-is-gree… Oppenheimer Generations Research & Conservation

What can be gained from the conservation of old-growth #grasslands? The importance of carbon credits, biodiversity offsets, and the future of agriculture and grasslands in Africa. Elaine Slooten @SallyArchibald Joseph D.M. White FERG NWU #SDG2 #SDG3 #SDG15 bit.ly/48ALgis

Belowground coarse organs - tubers, bulbs, rhizomes - can last for years in the soil and are important for understanding carbon cycling in open grassy biomes. See our latest paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Paper led by @FernandoAOSilv2 #ExFuMo #GoBelowground

Key to ‘regreening Madagascar’ is identifying the right places for reforestation. Delighted to join the launch of a @KewScience project working to do just that - & the first in #Madagascar to be supported by the new 🇬🇧-funded Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate, The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate.