Huge congratulations to Juri Felix for passing his PhD viva today! Many thanks to Ruth Mitchell and Alessandra Devoto for examining, Paul Devlin for chairing and Phil Stevenson for co-supervision. Cheers to leaf traits and tree diversity! 🌲🌳🍃🐛

🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨 🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal. 🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025. 🔗 trees-dla.ac.uk #PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA

📢 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & Phil Stevenson within NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 Apply by 20 January trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/effec…

Our new meta-analysis led by Dr Elsa Field shows that tree diversity reduces pathogen damage in temperate forests 🌲🌳 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: ow.ly/5vat50UwZAo

🌲 TREES DLA are holding a new webinar: Friday Jan 10th at 3pm (UK time). We'll talk about the PhD studentships, the application process, and hold a Q&A session! 💻 To join the webinar, register: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regist… When registering, you can submit 3 Qs for us to answer!

Effects of forest diversification on floral reward for pollinators - a new PhD opportunity with ⁦Julia Koricheva⁩ & me ⁦RoyalHollowayScience⁩ & @kewscience on nutritional & chemical diversity of pollen and nectar of forest understory - deadline 20/1/25 trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/effec…

Two weeks left to apply for this NERC TREES Doctoral Landscape Award PhD project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators supervised by me & Phil Stevenson. Please contact me if you are interested 🐝🌼🌳🌲 trees-dla.ac.uk/apply

Wrap-up webinar of TreE PlaNat UKTreescapes project will take place on Jan 20th, 12.30-2 pm GMT. Project findings on socio-ecological consequences of woodland expansion through planting and natural colonisation will be discussed. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b3670945…

New #OA paper in Plant Cell & Environment led by Juri Felix in collaboration with Phil Stevenson. We explored the mechanisms of assisted migration effects on oak–herbivore interactions in the Climate Match tree diversity experiment #TreeDivNet 🌳🐛☀️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

📢 In a new #OA Forum paper in Oikos we discuss the underlying mechanisms of temporal shifts in tree diversity effects on forest ecosystem functioning and use the Satakunta forest diversity experiments as a case study 🌳🌲 📈 #TreeDivNet doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

Still time to apply for this PhD with me and Julia Koricheva on effects of forest diversity on floral reward in forest understory. RHUL Biology & @KewScience #Finland #Kewgardens #floralrewards

🌳🌲Using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning - Julia Koricheva doi.org/10.1111/oik.10… RHUL Biology Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution #biodiversity #ecosystemfunctioning #forests #ontogeny #succession

🌿MSc students and doctoral researchers are encouraged to apply to iDiv’s 5-day Summer School on deep learning for biodiversity and ecological research from 25-29 Aug 2025 in Leipzig! 🌎 🗓️ Apply by: 28 Feb 2025 🔗 More info: idiv.de/events/summers…

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 careers.kew.org/internal/vacan…

Very pleased that data from the Satakunta forest diversity experiments have contributed to this new nature paper led by Laurent Augusto & Marie Charru which shows that tree species with conservative traits often outperform acquisitive species nature.com/articles/s4158…

What is the best type of tree to use for forest restoration? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Which tree species fix the most carbon? inrae.fr/en/news/which-…

Great to see research briefing from our UKTreescapes TreEPlaNat project on using natural processes for woodland creation published by Forest Research Research briefing: cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/2025/06/TreE-P… News: forestresearch.gov.uk/news/new-resea…

📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available in my lab RHUL Biology as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 🇫🇮 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 findaphd.com/phds/project/t…