The executive summary of our Royal Society Publishing #PhilTransB theme issue is now available in 8 languages: Bahasa, English, French, Mandarin, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Vietnamese. Please share to help get the science into policy and practice. bit.ly/3u6eW3Z

This month we begin expansion of our network of permanent vegetation plots into Colombia and Vietnam. We are establishing new pilot plots and exploring forest elevation gradients to plan for future work. Partners: Instituto Humboldt and the Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences.

Our wonderful new field team in Vietnam has just finished establishing our latest pilot vegetation plots, our first expansion into Asia. Hopefully lots more work to follow, to determine how disturbed forests can be restored through control of plants competing with trees.

Long generation times mean that biodiversity change of Amazon forests lags behind climate change

Secondary forest recovery in the neotropics. They appear to be behaving differently to the vine-dominated forests where we work, where recovery can be stalled for decades.

FORREST RESEARCH FOUNDATION Post-doc Fellowships for 2024 – open until 31 May 2023 forrestresearch.org.au/?p=7347

The herbarium of the future (the global metaherbarium). Trends in Ecology & Evolution OpenAccess: cell.com/trends/ecology…

We are seeking field assistants to help with our research into forest recovery from cyclones in North Queensland. Please circulate 😊. bitly.ws/I2oY

Workshop with forest managers discussing implications of our FoRCE research for managing the Australian Wet Tropics last month. Many people “hate” the native & exotic vines now smothering the forests after all the cyclones and logging! But should we be cutting them?

We are recruiting for a new postdoc to join our team for 18 months, modelling the global and regional impact of vines on tree growth and forest recovery from disturbance. seek.com.au/job/69971824

Check out this new funding call from the The British Academy "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Led by or Actively Involving Indigenous Peoples + Local Communities" 👇🌍 thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/climat…

Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened – even if tree restoration has taken place Read more 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-env… Full study 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… University of Exeter University of Stirling Earth and Environment at Leeds Global Systems Institute ETH Zürich

More on our recent work identifying disturbance-climate interactions that shape global liana competition with trees news.mongabay.com/2024/03/confli…

PhD graduate, Alain Ngute, interviewed about his work under our project. Great work Alain!

This article summarises our use of millipedes to test for “bandage effects” of vine infestations. While they harm trees and stall forest succession, we expect that dense vine thickets also preserve microclimates for wildlife and future forest recovery. tinyurl.com/3bana6f9

Another step towards identifying critical thresholds for tropical forest recovery from disturbance.

Mounting evidence supporting our hypothesis for alternative stable states within moist African (and tropical) forests: doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2…

Monitoring of litterfall and herbivory in one of our vegetation plots has been combined with similar data from 73 other sites worldwide, showing that plant-herbivore interactions and associated nutrient fluxes, are affected by climate.

The first research output from our Australian permanent sample plot network, led by @EmmaMackintosh4, shows that forests struggling to recover from cyclones are not recovering biomass and overwhelmed by liana infestations. shorturl.at/NpFM7