The International Tree Mortality Network

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger.

What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.

Australia’s trees are dying faster — not from fire, but from the stress of a warming, drying climate, weakening their role as vital carbon sinks.
🔗 theconversation.com/yes-forest-t... @bmedlyn.bsky.social @westernsydneyu.bsky.social @profchoat.bsky.social

Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳

🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨

We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more.

Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇
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Consider getting more actively involved in the Tree Mortality Network?

Register now for one of our online meetings starting tomorrow.

Consider getting more actively involved in the Tree Mortality Network?

Register now for one of our online meetings starting tomorrow.

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Whether you’ve been with us for years or just joined, your perspective is valuable. Come help shape the future of the network! 🌐✨

🔍 What are the ITMN meetings about?

We’re taking a moment to reflect on our progress and set new priorities together. We kick
off with a quick recap, then open the floor for your ideas on:

– What matters most to you
– Where ITMN should focus next
– Opportunities to take a more active role

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC
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🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC
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🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC
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Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀

deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by @cmosig.bsky.social

@wmhammond.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @corneliussenf.bsky.social @nadineruehr.bsky.social @tompugh.bsky.social

Register soon for Paulo’s talk on the role of cuticular conductance in tree mortality.
Places fill up quickly!

Join us for an exciting ITMN Seminar:
“Tiny leaks with deadly consequences” by Paulo Menezes
July 24th at 3 pm (CEST).
Register here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿

👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!

👨‍🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.

🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P

#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality

@treemortality.bsky.social

Looking forward to the 27th Tree Mortality Seminar with Kauane today.
Register now!

The next seminar is lined-up.
Now it’s time to register and catch a free spot.

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Don’t miss our next online tree mortality seminar by Kauane Bordin on: “The role of disturbance in shaping demographic trade-offs in temperate trees”

1st April
18:00 CEST 12:00 EDT

Register here:

zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Tree dieback network in Australia.

YouTube video by International Tree Mortality Network deadtrees.earth - a database of centimeter-scale aerial imagery for mapping global tree mortality

Want to learn more? Check out the ITMN seminar by Teja and Clemens
youtu.be/IKbFopiTcWY?...

Check out: deadtrees.earth
Great initiative by Clemens Mosig and Teja Kattenborn.

Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce Discovery of pest in UK raises fears for Sitka spruce, which accounts for half of country’s commercial plantations A beetle that has previously devastated Norway spruce populations across continental Europe has been found to be equally attracted to the…

Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce

Gentle reminder: The next seminar of the International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social featuring the great @dudney-joan.bsky.social is on for tomorrow! Tune in if you're interested in tree mortality in general, and disturbance interactions in particular!

Our survey showed a wealth of existing information but highlights the challenges in using it for this purpose and proposes a roadmap to improve knowledge going forward

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality - out in @newphyt.bsky.social a collaboration between 113 of our members exploring the potential to better understand tree death globally nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Mark your calendars for the next seminar of the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social: On Feb 18, the wonderful @dudney-joan.bsky.social will tackle the exiting topic of disturbance interactions under climate change. More info and registration here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/