One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused. Here's a 🧵 explaining why...

Are secondary forests the rockstars of forests (grow fast, die young)? No - they are more similar old-growth forests (demographically). Wonderfully lead by #MarkusSchorn and #NadjaRuger Find out more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… Ecology iDiv Biodiversity Research GEMA UMayor

People from the indigenous community Carmen Florida (in #PilónLajas reserve) fought the fire for weeks, using this narrow path. They managed to save the forest on the left side!

Most trees in this #rainforest die after fire. But those that survive often form scars (left) or get colonized by fungi (right, probably because this side is dead). Whether these trees eventually survive, we’ll see coming years…

Nothing can justify this horror

Previous land-use practices and soil properties are the main driver of early successional recovery of tropical forest in Mexico! See more here 👇

During #tropical #forest #succession #taxonomic and #functional #richness increase bc of continuous arrival of new #species and more niches, but their evenness surprisingly decreases bc of a large tail of rare spp. C @2ndFOR paper led by Masha van der Sande doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

Global study on patterns & drivers of tree abundance published today in GEB Journal. Geographically widespread but locally dominant & rare tree species have an equally high extinction risk. Reason: declining populations through large-scale land degradation. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

Postdoc opportunity #tropical #treemortality