Then on Friday we are excited to hear from Sue and Patrick Cunningham about the Spirit of the Amazon. Join us online or in person SoGE, University of Oxford Register here: bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiver…

We are looking to appoint a #Communications Officer to work with #WildCRU’s researchers & Oxford Dept. of Biology’s comms team to develop & curate content that engages multiple audiences around the world. For more info and application details see bit.ly/3KaXwez

Congratulations Erika Berenguer and colleagues on the release of ‘The heroes in the fire: the struggle of local brigades in the Amazon’. An enlightening yet terrifying look into the lives of those fighting fires in the Amazon. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=AjLx8W…

We look forward to seeing you later today at the Oxford Martin School. There is still space to register for in person attendance. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiver…

Yesterday’s discussion on the usefulness of the Planetary Boundaries was incredibly well informed and insightful. Thank you Kate Raworth and Erle Ellis (艾尔青) for an exciting discussion. Watch it here m.youtube.com/watch?si=BnkIp… Oxford Martin School Biodiversity Network At The University of Oxford Yadvinder Malhi

Congratulations Yadvinder Malhi who is featured in the ENDS Power list 2024. naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/leverhulm… SoGE, University of Oxford ECI, Univ of Oxford University of Oxford MPLSOxford

We’re having a great morning learning more from Planet about their satellite products and how we here at ECI, Univ of Oxford SoGE, University of Oxford and OxfordSocialSciences can unlock the power of a one-of-kind earth observation dataset 🌍🌎🌏

We are hiring! How can we measure the ecological health and functionality of savanna ecosystems? How do we define degradation and nature recovery in such ecosystems? New postdoc position - a partnership between NATURAL STATE and Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery : tinyurl.com/meht6kbw

Where have we come from and where are we going with plant functional trait research? Tomorrow Sandra Diaz will be sharing her unique perspective of the plant phenotype, with insights into avenues of future research and areas that may be dead ends at SoGE, University of Oxford

In Greenland this week to set up our new Natural Environment Research Council project on the impact of large herbivores on the climate resilience of the Arctic tundra with Marc Macias and Jeppe Å. Kristensen. But first a hike to pay respects to the vast silent hulk of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Congratulations to Erika Berenguer for being appointed as a The Rockefeller Foundation Big Bets Climate Fellow for Latin America! We are very excited to see the work that comes from this fellowship.

Only TWO more seminars before we break for the summer! THIS FRIDAY we are lucky to have Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Encina with us all way from Mexico. The Return of the Mermaid: Revitalizing the Lerma Wetlands in the highlands of Central Mexico with the guidance of the Mother

An absolutely fascinating talk from Sandra Diaz on where we’re going with plant functional trait research. If you missed it, you can now watch it on Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery YouTube page.

Last week Yadvinder Malhi travelled to Greenland for our new Natural Environment Research Council project. Read about it below 👇🏼

Congratulations Haoran Wu Dr Cecilia Dahlsjö and Yadvinder Malhi on your ash dieback paper Wytham Woods. Using evidence-based modelling they show that ash dieback will continue over the next decade, w/ 26% decline if the no. of resistant trees does not increase. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our team has touched down in Kigali, Rwanda for ATBC 2024. Over this week we will be presenting some of the research that our lab has been doing in tropical forests and savannas across the world #ATBC2024 #ATBCRwanda

Great first day ATBC. Yadvinder Malhi Zhang Huanyuan and Kerry-Anne Grey presented on ecosystem energetics, using AI to create digital maps for Africa in the past, and the response of savannas trees to climate change. Nicola Stevens hosted a symposium on long term vegetation plots #atbc2024

Wonderful symposium ‘Innovative remote sensing approaches to understand tropical ecosystem functioning and structure’ organised by Jesus Aguirre Manu Machado 🌱 Kendall Jefferys Felipe Martello

New article- "The distribution and drivers of tree cover in savannas and forests across India" in Communications Earth & Environment. supported by SoGE, University of Oxford Oxford Ecosystems Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development with Sami Rifai Jayashree Ratnam Imma Oliveras Menor Nicola Stevens Yadvinder Malhi 🧵👇 rdcu.be/dOKBA

New paper: trees host microbes that take up methane from the atmosphere. This novel finding is exciting and opens up many new avenues of research into the importance of earth’s trees for our rapidly changing climate.