G David Tilman

Ecologist studying biodiversity, global agriculture, and environmental sustainability

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@harris_wins Trump the Grump. Who would want to hear him?

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@Marjo__S @helsinkiuni @informedbirds Amazing indeed!! Rosemary and Peter are spectacular biologists and fabulous people. Congratulations Rosemary!

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@minhyuk_seo I think the biggest societal wins will be in making agriculture much more sustainable, and in restoring lands to maximize ecosystem services, especially the long-term capture and storage of carbon.

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@angelacbartlett A great way is to pose a major unanswered question and invite people with a diversity of skills and perspectives to join you in pursuit of answers. Zoom can make this much easier than when we had to fly to a common meeting I spot. Plan ahead for where you'll publish the result.

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@dai_saito5 Each of us first has to gain skills to be able to contribute to a multidisciplinary team. Build your skills, and as you do, seek out others with your interests but different skills. Collaboration often follows.

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@clarelusher @CathePreece @JEcology The most concerned people today, young adults, will soon be in charge. Across my lifetime, there have been great changes, and that trend is accelerating. We will solve our environmental problems.

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@JAppliedEcology Healthy diets with low GHG are most important. GHG from food transport is small compared to GHG differences among foods. But, local foods are mostly vegetables and fruits & are fresher & tastier. If buying locally increases consumption of these foods, then its highly beneficial.

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@DavidJohnGibson @JaneCatford George Furey at Cedar Creek showed in PNAS that soil fertility increased because forbs added K to soil, C4 grasses added organic matter, legumes added N, etc. Plant tissue chemistry differences might be important, but overlooked, traits.

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@IndyStephenson We must communicate not just to scientists via journals but also to the public. No one can do everything. We need a branch of ecology that specializes on such brood-scale communication. BES and ESA are playing such roles, as do NAS and the Royal Society, but much more is needed.

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@PaN_BES Each person, and each culture, looks at problems in different ways. Cultural and intellectual diversity will be essential for finding real solutions -- solutions that are sustained in a culture.

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@CathePreece @JEcology There are signs of hope in many countries, but such policies seem change with new political leadership, which suggests that we have not yet achieved politically stable solutions.

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@DrJoshBrian @JEcology If you graph dN/Ndt versus N for humans you will see we, too, have a carrying capacity, a population size at which dN/Ndt=0. The same holds for the GDP of every country.

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@DavidJohnGibson @JaneCatford They will always be essential. We must know the patterns and underlying interactions before we can explain them.

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📢2 weeks to go! @GDavidTilman will be live on Twitter to answer your Qs & comments about his mini-review:
Extinction, climate change & the ecology of Homo sapiens

🗓️24-May 3pm (UK time)
✏️@GDavidTilman #JEcolJournalClub
https://t.co/Au3z6yHUUz

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Biodiv - why higher yields & better forestry matter more than REDD: Brazil lowers forest loss but Asia increases (Hansen in today's Science)