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We relaunch our seminar series!

Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the

‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’

24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC

www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

Upcoming Seminar of the International Tree Mortality Network with Jordi Martinez-Vilalta @treemortality.bsky.social

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread.

Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100.

New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Summer School - Forests for the Future

Summer School "Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration"
16–21 August 2026; Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland
Deadline: 30 April 2026
Applications can be submitted to: swissforestlab_summerschool@wsl.ch
swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/veranstal...

Conceptual model of the expected role of dryland mechanisms along a climatic gradient from cool and moist towards hot and dry conditions, and their relevance for climate-smart forestry.

Ecophysiology for climate-smart forest management

#TansleyReview by Gessler et al. @wslresearch.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social @josegruenzweig.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience

Manuscript rejected at a top-tier journal after an impressively minimalist review process. 🧐

Curious if others have received similarly “concise” rejection letters - and how you handled it?

Forest interactions Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.

Save the date!

48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions

📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland

www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps

#PlantScience

The path of 14C from cosmic rays to cellulose.

Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#TansleyReview by Hessl et al.

@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Here's how the records stacked up during the recent heatwave over central and southern Australia. All-month maximum temperature records at individual stations with 25+ year histories are highlighted.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reversibility of Interannual Tree Growth Variability in Southern Boreal Forest

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Forty years of tracking trees reveals changes in Amazon and Andean Forest diversity New research reveals significant recent shifts in tree diversity among the tropical forests of the Andes and Amazon, driven by global change.

environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news...

Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yes, please add me!

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria

‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL

PostDoc position in #dendrochronology at U of Giessen (Germany) to work on medieval climate and societal changes in the Caucasus. Dream position: a great international team to work with, super research topic and amazing field sites. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs

#oneforjournalclub #mustread

We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

[SAVE THE DATE] 🌍 🌳 for the FORESTT International Conference «FORESTs and global environmental changes: social-ecological systems in Transition», will take place from October 5 to 7, 2027 in Metz, France .

📰 forestt-international-conference.colloque.inrae.fr/stay-informed

Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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PhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric Drought We invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil...

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.

For once, some good news about the Amazon tropical forest 🌳

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳

🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨

We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more.

Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇
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Interested in new approches to trace #forest 🌲🌳🧪responses to #climate_change? More on #ECOSENS and ##B2WALD here in my #TED TALK „ted talk christiane share.google/PqjmjMXk4uza...

Consider getting more actively involved in the Tree Mortality Network?

Register now for one of our online meetings starting tomorrow.

Flyer for EGU26 session: Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models Convener: Lucia Sophie LayritzECS | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola HeinrichECS, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner | Deadline January 15th 2026

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍

Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️

👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

Extreme Heatwave Causes Immediate, Widespread Mortality of Forest Canopy Foliage, Highlighting Modes of Forest Sensitivity to Extreme Heat

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🔴Let's Talk About Planted Forests - Webinar

📽️Join online tomorrow to hear about the next theme
➡️ Douglas fir health: insights from Europe

🗓️28 November 2025⏰2.00 pm CET

🎟️ www.plantedforests.org/webinar-lets...

#letstalkaboutplantedforests #forests #forets #webinar #ForestResearch #ForestScience

Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps