ForestPlots
@forestplots
Tropical forests in our time - people, trees and climate. Posts by Oliver Phillips.
And in Brazil, Karollyne Guimaraes and colleagues are bringing together collaborators from wet and dry biomes to support integrated, long-term research and data management sway.cloud.microsoft/HvzAubjQA0iC...
Across the Congo Basin, the dynamic "CongoFor1.5" team is monitoring more than 250 forest plots. By strengthening skills in both field data collection and data analysis, our workshops are helping to build local expertise and support the next generation of forest scientists.
In Brazil's giant Cerrado biome and the world's most biodiverse savanna., Facundo Alvarez and colleagues show that just 30 dominant species hold the secret to resisting climate change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Across South America, Belen Fedrique leads an Amazon and Andean team to reveal how climate change already shapes tree diversity, creating ecological winners and losers in Earth’s most vital biodiversity hotspots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Across the Amazon, Adriane Esquivel and our RAINFOR partners discovered that big trees are getting bigger. More than ever before, the carbon sink depends on the giants of the forest www.nature.com/articles/s41... sway.cloud.microsoft/HvzAubjQA0iC...
We celebrate some of the amazing achievements of our incredible colleagues. In Peru, Rodolfo Vasquez and his team have discovered *236* plant species new to science in just one reserve. A 40-year labour of love in some of Earth's most challenging forests. sway.cloud.microsoft/HvzAubjQA0iC...
La defaunacon es en todas partes, pero varia mucho en sus impactos. Este nuevo artiuclo proviene Mapas de Defaunación de Mamíferos y Aves Tropicales - incluye mapas de defaunación por especie para 4992 aves y mamíferos! 🐶🐯🙈🦆🦉🦇🐘🦙 -> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The deep past has much to teach us all. This is humanity's 42,000-kilometer Stone Age odyssey during the, in one image. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org
More species discovery in the Peruvian Andes! 🌿 Congratulations to Rodolfo Vasquez and Rocío Rojas-Gonzales on Saurauia vanderffii - a new Actinidaceae from the Central Rainforest Cloud Forests Biosphere Reserve. 🇵🇪🔬✨ www.lillo.org.ar/journals/ind...
Is #Peru the most important nation on Earth for the future of tropical life? To escape increasing heat and drought, the Amazon needs big, protected ecosystem corridors. This new study shows where they need to be. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
More amazing botanical discoveries in Peru. Rocio Rojas and colleagues describe new endemic Columnea species (Gesneriaceae). Together with recent discoveries, the number of Columnea species known in Peru increases to 36, concentrated in vulnerable Andean cloud forests. 10.3897/phytokeys.275.187262
A new species of the rare and spectacular forest liana genus Marcgravia has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon - based on a collection made by Rodolfo Vasquez on the Rio Nanay near Iquitos, 46 years ago. abm.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/ab...
En Madre de Dios 🇵🇪. No hay control. Más de 500 hectáreas deforestadas por minería ilegal en la Reserva Nacional Tambopata. www.actualidadambiental.pe/madre-de-dio...
El Niño is emerging faster than expected, with a 2-in-3 chance of becoming a strong El Niño. The transition is expected to begin soon. www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...
Nuestro frágil hogar, desde más allá de la luna. Creditos: NASA/Artemis II Crew.
Remembering Dr. Peter H. Raven 1936-2026. Peter Raven transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden into a world-leading centre for botany and dedicated his working life to science, conservation, and building vital tropical biodiversity research programmes. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/peter-raven
O Cerrado abrange 2M km² e está cronicamente subprotegido. Apenas 30 espécies contribuem com metade de todas as árvores. Esta nova análise em @globalchangebio.bsky.social mostra como as mudanças climáticas e a perda de habitat ameaçam o futuro do Cerrado. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
El levantamiento andino y la biogeografía histórica de la familia de la nuez de Brasil. Lecythidaceae se diversificó durante el Mioceno. La mayoría de especies conservaron nichos en la selva de tierras bajas, pero varios linajes se desplazaron hacia los andes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Cerrado biome spans 2M km2 and is chronically underprotected. Just 30 species contribute half of tree stems. New analysis supported by ForestPlots shows why the combination of climate change and habitat loss threatens them, and the future of the Cerrado. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Una nueva especie de Gesneriaceae. 𝘋𝘳𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢 es endémica del Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén en la selva central del Perú. Felicidades a Rocio Rojas Gonzales y sus colegas por su descubrimento. doi.org/10.14522/dar...
Seleção de bolsista de Pós-Doutorado Júnior junto ao Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Síntese da Biodiversidade Amazônica. Excelente oportunidade para pesquisador(a) interessado(a) em contribuir com estudos inovadores na Amazônia. A vaga é para 1 Bolsa com duração inicial de 12 meses.
Fabaceae emerge as amongst the most embolism-resistant tree families in Amazonia. Forests in the Brazilian and Guiana Shield regions, where Fabaceae abundance is high, are expected to have greater drought resistance than Western Amazon forests.
Large-scale patterns of tropical forest embolism resistance mapped across space and angiosperm phylogeny. Combining measurements across the Amazon with 100s of floristic samples, Julia Tavares & colleagues report remarkable variation in vulnerability to drought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An Aquatic Cycad! #newspecies discovered deep in the swamps of the Peruvian Amazon, and named Zamia urarinorum in honor of the indigenous people of the area, who, of course, already knew it. phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...
The plants of the Brazilian Amazon create rainfall worth US$20 billion annually. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
We all love trees. But lianas are beautiful too! Cross-sections reveal the pattern of xylem tubes, reflecting the stem space dedicated to transporting water skywards and phylogenetic variation in a liana community.
Why long-term science is needed in a short term world. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Payment‐based open access is biasing ecology against participation from the Global South nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...