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📸 Logged tropical forests have reduced seedling density & diversity, even w. active restoration treatments (see Bartholomew et al.; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652486/2… ). Photo by David Bartholomew.

New UKCEH-led paper (with University of Exeter) investigating if there are regions where the hottest days are warming up faster than background global warming

Read the full study: nature.com/articles/s4161… npj Journals

The approach used in the study could be applied widely, allowing estimates of ozone impact for countries lacking air quality and/or experimental data to assess ozone impacts.

See the full open access paper in Scientific Reports : link.springer.com/article/10.103… 3/3 #OzonePollution

Air pollution, especially ozone, harms staple crop yields, threatening food security. Despite scarce ground-level ozone data in Africa, experimental studies show its crop-damaging effects there

Our Scientific Reports study assesses yield losses for common beans in Uganda in 2015 🧵1/

On many parts of the land surface, the hottest days are warming faster than the annual mean, according to a new paper by Chris Huntingford, Joe Clarke, Paul Ritchie et al. (@UKCEHPapers Global Systems Institute Exeter University Mathematics ). Full paper available at: rdcu.be/dDIsn

Fascinating new paper from Chris Huntingford UKCEH Paper Alerts (with some of us at Exeter University Mathematics and Global Systems Institute) showing that the hottest days are warming faster than the annual mean, in both observations and models.
doi.org/10.1038/s41612…

Chris Huntingford contributes to a Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 assessment of global vegetation greenness in 2023, the 3rd highest observed in satellite records

Within a positive trend is interannual variability, with changes driven by climatic extremes incl wildfires, droughts & flooding

This ES&T article by Shinji Ozaki and team UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology assesses the temporal trend of second-generation anticoagulant #rodenticides (SGARs) exposure on UK Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) #ecotoxicology

Read this #OpenAccess article 👉 go.acs.org/8Kp

📢Excited to share my final PhD paper!
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We demonstrate an approach of pooling seasonal hindcasts to explore ’storylines’ of how the 2022 drought could have unfolded given different atmospheric circulation configurations (1/3)

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The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists.

A new study outlines how the drought evolved and its impacts.

Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/summer-2…

2022 is classified as a summer drought, which developed relatively quickly, as opposed to a multi-year drought driven by successive dry winters.

Prolonged exceptional heat, dry soils & low river flows had widespread impacts

Full study in Royal Meteorological Society Weather: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we…

Very excited to share our Commentary published Nature Water, showing that it is critical to incorporate ecosystem water demands into ecological drought monitoring and assessment, in addition to water supply indicated by PDSI or SPEI.
nature.com/articles/s4422…

Why do some restoration projects succeed while others falter? Embracing Complex Systems Science concepts like regime shifts & ecological resilience could offer valuable insights.

A new framework highlights how these concepts influence restoration outcomes

New Nature Water article argues that diverse ecosystem water demands across vegetation types, regions and time must be incorporated into effective ecological #drought monitoring and assessment frameworks

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📢 RESEARCH 🚨hot off the press Global Change Biology : Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 🍄🦠🏔️🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Massive team effort Soil Ecology Lab UoM Functional Ecology: UIBK Research Group UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology COMI | HMGU 🥳🍻

A rapid environmental risk assessment of the Kakhovka Dam breach during the Ukraine conflict rdcu.be/dBBZ0

Delighted to be featured on this list for my paper with Oli Pescott in Journal of Applied Ecology! 🥳
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

The paper is from Natural Environment Research Council PhD research by Robin Hayward & David Bartholomew. UKCEH co-author Dr Lindsay Banin said the results reveal there may be bottlenecks in recovery of particular elements of the plant community.

Read the @globalchangebio paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

NEW: Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging happened decades earlier – even if tree restoration projects have taken place, a new study shows 🌿🌳

See our story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media…

Full paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…