TreeCo database

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
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New article co-authored by a large team of researchers from 28 countries! It updates the Global Wood Density Database (GWDD) and presents a comprehensive synthesis of the global extent of inter and intraspecific variation in wood density 🌲🌳🌴

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INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...).
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And the connection between successional groups and key functional traits was less clear than we had anticipated.

This classification using the Atlantic Forest data didn’t quite align with the traditional classifications of successional groups found in the literature

Our extensive dataset enabled to systematically classify 2,794 species into successional groups using a data-driven approach, a list which is shared as Supplementary Material.

The study shows that secondary tree communities are notably distinct, but these is not the case for other successional stages

New article published @JEcology uses a wide dataset for the #AtlanticForest to challenge classical ideas on #TropicalForest secondary succession. A thread

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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

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Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question a...

Good to see an #herbarium study from @newphyt.bsky.social featured on NPR, with an assessment of what we stand to lose when herbaria are closed.

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Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.

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....