Our work on #ashdieback 🌿 in @WythamWoods was covered by @BBCSouthNews. The frequency and severity of tree diseases is on the rise. It is therefore increasingly important to understand how they impact on ecosystems and how they function. @ecioxford@BiodivOxford@yadv
PhD oportunity! We're looking for a doctoral researcher in tropical forest ecology, to be based at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Join us to contribute to ongoing research in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil. @araca_project More details here: https://t.co/gCDkkTZUBs
@GauciGauci@STOTEN_journal@ymalhi@ecioxford@BiodivOxford@NatureRecovery It's difficult to disentangle the soil moisture effect from the effect of losing ash leaves which have high decomposition rates. https://t.co/aDbOuzaonT
This probably differs depending on the species in decline. Some papers show that moisture increases leaf litter decomposition.
Unexpected ecosystem cascades from tree disease through hydrology: loss of ash trees keeps soils saturated in normal years (increasing flood risk from summer storms) but buffers against drought in dry years. Our new paper based on @WythamWoods published in @STOTEN_journal
For anyone in Oxford, I am looking for two paid field assistants to survey soil and aboveground invertebrates along a land-use gradient of permanent pasture in October. Please, DM me if you're interested. Deadline is noon, 5th Sep. @BiodivOxford@ecioxford@OxfordBiology@ymalhi
📢New paper out! We showed that it is possible to simulate realistically canopy spectral transmittance in forests using very different types of physically-based models https://t.co/yyEAIuHm4M
Our @NatureRecovery ecologists busy at Gibbets Close Nature Reserve today, just outside Oxford, looking at how invertebrate biodiversity and energetics change as farmland is left to revert naturally back to woodland
Closing soon...just 4 days left to apply for this opportunity to join us at @OxfordBiology to work on a biodiversity baseline for @UniofOxford's Begbroke Innovation District. Please share widely! For full details and to apply see: https://t.co/9UIaIAcJag
‘Heroes in the fire’ - a film telling the story of fire brigades risking their lives to tackle Amazon rainforest wildfires. A film ECI's Dr Erika Berenguer wanted to make and share. @Erika_Berenguer
Funded by @LancasterUni and @UKRI_News
@JosBarlow
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JOB ALERT - UK biodiversity and nature recovery. We're hiring a postdoc with natural history skills (or someone with equivalent experience) for a new fieldwork-focused project on nature recovery near Oxford. Closes 25th June. Please retweet! https://t.co/pHuHW6LmS8
Congratulations to Dr Erika Berenguer, Senior Researcher, ECI
"The 16 leaders in the extraordinary inaugural class of Rockefeller Foundation Climate Fellows have the big bet mindset: the belief that large-scale change is possible and the commitment to making that change happen."
I am super happy to announce that I am a Big Bets Climate fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation with our @RAS_network project on fireproofing the Amazon!
I am super happy to announce that I am a Big Bets Climate fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation with our @RAS_network project on fireproofing the Amazon!
For anyone in Oxford, I am looking for two paid field assistants to survey soil macro- and mesofauna along a land-use gradient of permanent pasture in mid-July. Please, send me a DM if you're interested. Deadline is noon, 10th June. @BiodivOxford@ecioxford@OxfordBiology@ymalhi
Love the new series of videos by @Bill_Sutherland on conservation concepts. Just used one on yellow rattle effects on plant diversity for the habitat restoration lecture @RHULBioSci field ecology course. Thanks, Bill! https://t.co/6aSFXZtjRT
What a brilliant, passionate and engaging debate with @KateRaworth and @erleellis exploring how helpful the concept of #planetaryboundaries is, and what type of aspirational vision for our future we should strive for. Really worth a watch on the Youtube link below...