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Alain Ngute

@askngute

Terrestrial Ecologist | #biodiversity #ecosystemfunction #carbonstocks #climate #soil | #rstats | #GIS | #PhDone 🎓 @usceduau | #Afreekah | #BlackLivesMatter

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Our recent study just made it to @MongabayOrg! We show how forest #disturbance, #climate & #topography drive a #global increase in the competitive #success of #lianas vs #trees. These have implications for #forest #recovery, #biodiversity & #carbon sink news.mongabay.com/2024/03/co… – at Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana dominance over trees

Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana dominance over trees

When a tree falls in the forest, lianas hear an opportunity. Figuratively, at least. These long-stemmed woody vines hitch a ride to the canopy by climbing up trees, rather than investing in their own...

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Compositional Acclimation Can Lessen Tropical Forest Change in Response to Increasing Lightning Frequency: Insights From Simulation Modeling 🔗 buff.ly/oOOzoPH
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🌿A great review integrates existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷 📰Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇 buff.ly/cgUBfSp
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🌳 There is a weak growth-survival trade-off among temperate tree species. Late developmental stands showed a strong positive association between species’ growth and survival🌍 📖 Read more: buff.ly/qmUA3oJ
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ForestGEO@ForestGEO7 Oct 2025
The call for proposals for the 2025 ForestGEO Research Awards Program is now open! 🚨 Students & postdocs encouraged to apply 🌿 For full award details and how to apply, click here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-an…
Researchers measure the DBH of trees on the HKK Forest Dynamics Plot in western Thailand. Photo credit: Christian Ziegler

ALT Researchers measure the DBH of trees on the HKK Forest Dynamics Plot in western Thailand. Photo credit: Christian Ziegler

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Big trees are on the rise. 30 years of Amazon forest measurements by RAINFOR partners show that, so far, any impact of #climatechange on forests and large trees have been more than mitigated by the positive effects of increased resources. nature.com/articles/s41477-0…
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🌱🦠 Soil biodiversity is important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and its stability with increasing number of global change factors. 👉 buff.ly/PS2Gers
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🦌Tree diversity boosts tree growth, but why? This study shows: foliar chemical diversity influences tree enemies- more diverse forests have more diverse chemicals which attracts more caterpillars but better resists pathogens & deer, driving better growth buff.ly/2Vw8uO0
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Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?

Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?

Scientists are pushing plants beyond their comfort zone to test their resilience to warming

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ForestPlots@ForestPlots9 Jun 2025
#pdra #postdoc Research Fellow in Tropical American Forest Dynamics. We are looking for a scientist with strong quantitative skills focused on forests to lead ecological change analyses with a global team including RAINFOR, PPBio + other networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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WCS Congo@wcs_congo6 Jun 2025
Between savannahs and swamp forests populated by fragile #species, the Lake Tele #Community Reserve embodies a rare ecological balance that is now threatened by the effects of #climatechange. Le Courrier de la Nature highlights the Reserve (French only): bit.ly/4dIbeDP
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AI bots threaten online scientific infrastructure nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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📢#CuttingvEdgeTools Friday, May the 30th, at 2 PM CEST, @DylanJCraven will close our cycle of webinars on databases with "Key questions in functional biogeography", leveraging regional trait databases and with examples from Rasgos-CL. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
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🪿Goose grazing in an Arctic wetland alters the chemical root traits of a dominant sedge species. These changes to root chemistry lead to greater carbon emissions during decomposition👇#wetland #grazing buff.ly/BiGHa5f
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gfr.wri.org/latest-analysis-… Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024

Tropical Rainforest Loss Slowed in 2025, but Fire is a Growing Threat to Forests Worldwide | World...

The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data....

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Lightning-caused disturbance frequency and severity varies with topography in an Afromontane forest biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_ecology
Lightning-caused disturbance frequency and severity varies with topography in an Afromontane forest

Lightning-caused disturbance frequency and severity varies with topography in an Afromontane forest

Lightning is an important agent of tropical tree mortality, but we know little about lightning-caused disturbances beyond one lowland tropical forest in Panama. Here we quantified variation in the...

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ForestPlots@ForestPlots1 May 2025
#PhD How do tropical forest soundscapes alter with land use? Acoustic monitoring in Amazon and African forests, working with partners and gradients of forest modification. Apply by 19 May: Manchester Met Uni, w/ [email protected] & colleagues! mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate…
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🌱Plant distributions are frequently in disequilibrium with their environment, which can bias species distribution models. This latest review looks at methods used to reduce bias👇#plantecology #speciesdistribution buff.ly/u9WXOs7
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PERSPECTIVE Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps 📄 buff.ly/fGnoG6Y
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New @JEcology paper by @ArielleBiro, @SABatterman, + Jane Lucas finds S African #trees grow better with native soil #microbes than in sterile soil. But trees + microbes both suffered in drought conditions, w implications for #savanna carbon sinks. @Yale besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive

Native soil microbes buffer savanna trees against nutrient limitation but are drought sensitive

Below-ground microbial symbionts increased savanna tree growth in limited resource environments and could be critical for plant growth in the field. However, drought substantially affected both tree...

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🎧 Missed it? Don’t worry! iDiv proudly launched the #InsideBiodiversity podcast, your new go-to source for expert thoughts on biodiversity. 🌿🔍 And stay tuned! — A new episode will be out next month. 🦜 ✨ P.S. Don't forget to subscribe here: insidebiodiversity.podigee.i…
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