Luciana Alves

In temperate trees, growth–survival trade-offs are surpisingly weak and restricted to late-successional stages.
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Congratulations to Kauane Bordin for leading the analysis, and US FIA colleagues for an amazing data set: 12,035 (!) long-term plots

🧢 Dodgers WIN 💙

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Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wiley had over $1.8 billion in revenue last year, but their new CEO decided to replace editorial assistants with AI. Our editor and reviewer profiles didn't even get transferred over from the old system; we've been assigned AI-generated keywords that editors need to "fix" to "improve" the algorithm.

uma luzinha no final do tunel, espero…

😢 RIP Jane Goodall

Nome do governador: Gavin Newson
Capital da California: Sacramento

Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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How a severe population bottleneck brought human ancestors close to extinction

Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
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#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

🎉🆕📰🎉: Diversity patterns and knowledge gaps of Atlantic Forest epiphyllous bryophytes: a highly neglected group
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Opinion | Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable

Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

💯 pingos nos iiis

Adjustment in leaf water relations and the maintenance of mangrove seedling growth under increasing salinity Abstract. Mangroves are ecosystems of high ecological and economic importance, particularly due to their capacity to store high amounts of carbon and stabi

Our paper just dropped! 🌿💧 We studied how mangrove plants adjust water relations & growth under rising salinity — a key issue as climate change drives sea level rise.

Brazilian science from the Amazon mangrove.

#Mangroves #ClimateScience #WomenInSTEM

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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election * Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

OMG ah ah ah

your writing is so good and hilarious

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How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest - Nature Communications In this study, the distinct impacts of deforestation and global climate change on the Brazilian Amazon are quantified for the period 1985-2020. Deforestation amplifies the temperature increase and dom...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest: “…Over the past 35 yrs, deforestation has accounted for approximately 74% of the ~ 21 mm dry season−1 decline and 16.5% of the 2°C rise in max surface air temp.”

amazing place!

🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊

phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

for no reason…

Biomass production of tropical trees across space and time: The shifting roles of diameter growth and wood density Diameter growth is an important and good indicator of forest carbon production. However, size-related changes in wood density, which are usually neglected, are critical for accurate short- and long-t...

#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important?

Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁
#dendrochronology
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Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37...

"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org
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