Such a powerful piece in The New York Times by Toby Kiers on being a mother in science.

Ultimately, it's about the freedom to do it how we choose.

When still a baby, my son and my partner joined on field work.

Now, I choose to leave my children at home.
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Today Irena Koelemeijer defended her thesis entitled 'Effects of drougth on boreal forest understory species' in a professional way DEEP at Stockholm University
Congrats!!

Proud supervisor and co-supervisors! Thanks to collaborators Pieter De Frenne, Mari Jönsson and Johan Ehrlen!

Thrilled to have my first first-author paper officially published!! Check out Ben Lee, PhD (he/him) thread for a synopsis. 🌸

Thanks to Ben Lee, PhD (he/him), Mason Heberling, Michelle Spicer, PhD (she/her), Sara Kuebbing, and Howie Neufeld for making it happen!

BOS+ - Flemish (BE) NGO working on forest protection, forest development, reforestation and sustainable forest management in Flanders and the Tropics, is looking for a new Director.

Check it out at bosplus.be/vacatures/dire….

Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Austria)
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Disintegration of the frontal area of the 2nd largest Austrian glacier during last four summers (incl. 2 hottest on record)🥵📈
Video Stefan Haselberger

Bijzonder boeiend om een bijdrage te mogen leveren aan deze omvangrijke studie over de evolutie van Arabica koffie.

Many thanks to Jarkko Salojärvi🇫🇮🇺🇦 and team for the excellent work!

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[new paper] Pollinators increase crop yield, but measuring their effect is complicated. Here we 1) synthesize almost 100 studies globally: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… and 2) provide a dynamic paper to update results as more studies emerge: ibartomeus.github.io/CropPollinatio…

#Copernicus for #ClimateChange awareness

According to our #Copernicus Climate Change Service, March 2024 was the tenth month in a row to be the hottest on record

Read more at climate.copernicus.eu/climate-bullet…

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought - Blondeel - Journal of Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

The availability of nectar in the herbaceous layer of European forests has decreased by 25% over the last 40 years according to research from Forest & Nature Lab, published in Journal of Ecology

Pieter De Frenne DECOCQ Guillaume

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Now in GEB Journal: Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography 💧☀️🌡️ Paper led by me & Jonas Lembrechts Koenraad Van Meerbeek Pieter De Frenne and collaboratively written by 97 participants of #MEB2022 - thank you! And see you at MEB2024 in August in Finland!

A thread ⬇️

On the blog🔎

🌱 #Nectar Harmonies: a long-term analysis of European #forest #herb layers

Wim De Schuyter @fornalab UGent Pieter De Frenne jecologyblog.com/2024/03/15/nec…

Abstract submission is now OPEN! Submit your abstract by 30.4.2024 meb2024.com if you wish to present at the 2nd Microclimate Ecology and Biogeography conference 26.-29.8.2024 in Helsinki, Finland. Registration will soon follow as spring arrives! 📸: HelsinkiPartners

Accounting for #albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration Nature Communications
'carbon-only estimates may be up to 81% too high'

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Planting trees is not a perfect solution to fight climate change

In some areas it can work well, but in others it can be a true disaster 🌲🌲🌲🔥🔥🔥

Take a look at our new review on the topic

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Thrilled to share that our paper on the climate velocities in global mountain regions and species tracking has finally been published in Nature! I-Ching Chen Jonathan Lenoir nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨 Just published GEB Journal ⬇️ Eucalypt tree species native from Australia are exploring beyond their native climatic niche breadth in many cities worldwide & it relates to traits 🌳🍃

Thanks Manuel Esperon for leading this study on cities as laboratories

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I used multi-response phylogenetic mixed models to quantify the link between plant functional traits and range size/shape in European trees. The OA article is available here: doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…
Thanks to GEB Journal editors & reviewers!

On the day of the last supper, remember that we will break bread together at conference dinner! Submit abstracts by 30.4.2024 meb2024.com Microclimate Ecology and Biogeography conference 26.-29.8.2024 in Helsinki, Finland. Happy Easter!📸:JussiHelsten/HelsinkiPartners

Early career researchers in an unethical publishing system in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…