Meshack Moranga

The Effect of Active versus Passive Interventions on Riparian Rehabilitation Success Anthropogenically-induced ecosystem transformations, like land-use change and biological invasions, have accelerated throughout the 20th century with significant impact on rivers and associated ripari...

The Effect of Active versus Passive Interventions on Riparian Rehabilitation Success: er.uwpress.org/content/43/3...

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!

The Plot Builder in #JASP 0.95.0 is now powered by #tidyplots 🚀

Kudos to @matyasbukva.bsky.social

JASP is an open-source statistical software suite with a graphical user interface for conducting classical and Bayesian analyses.

jasp-stats.org

#rstats #dataviz #phd

🦠 Belowground microbial communities are important to ecosystem health. Recent research shows microbes increased savanna tree growth and could be critical for plant growth in the field but both are negatively affected by drought.🌳👉https://buff.ly/Z8AxLGF

🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy

🔎 Non-vascular plants exacerbate plant diversity loss estimates resulting from increased nutrient levels 👉 buff.ly/LJAIZzZ

🌱🦠 Soil biodiversity is important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and its stability with increasing number of global change factors. 👉 buff.ly/PS2Gers

Legacy article from times @niooknaw.bsky.social on legacy of drought on soil fungal communities and functions. Key finding is that communities in bulk soil recover pretty fast while soil C related functions remain changed. Photos of the experiment for attention!

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

National-scale map of mean field size across Mozambique. Selected zoom ins provide details on individual fields.

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Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

for reals plot in publication

During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches.

🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws.

Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA

'The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws'

www.rte.ie/news/environ...

The RStoolbox poster at the ESA LPS25.

RStoolbox, an R package for remote sensing data analysis, is being presented at ESA #LPS25 today by @caipide.bsky.social and myself.

Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats

Stop by our poster about drought monitoring in orchard meadows today at #LPS25 at B37

Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...

New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.

Happening also today during #LPS25 F02.01 Harnessing the Power of EO for Research and Development in Africa session - Maximilian Schwarz will present parts of our project output #EOAfrica ADM-Kenya project and then during the poster season let’s chat about policy relevance and the capacity building!

Come by poster stand L20 today at #LPS25. Happy to chat about #savanna ecosystems, vegetation structure, #GEDI #lidar, #Sentinel-1 and whatever else you have in mind!

📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover:
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are critical‼️
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax

🚀 I am thrilled to share the final Table of Contents for my upcoming book, Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools! Currently wrapping up the chapter on Distributed Computing with Apache Sedona. Aiming for a release before in two weeks. Stay tuned!

Reminder: Feeling frustration, anxiety, anger and even despair is a rational responses to, and a natural consequence of, understanding climate change.

Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.

Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.

🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQ... -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.

#SDSL2025 #SpatialDataScience #OpenSource

Great to hear from Lisa Norton @ukceh.bsky.social arguing the case for protecting weeds, at the @britishecologicalsociety.org symposium.

@tabledebates.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social

Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter

For anyone interested in peatland restoration and natural flood management we have an exciting new funded PhD opportunity @exeter.ac.uk @uoe-creww.bsky.social supported the Environment Agency and South West Peatland Partnership: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data

Do you want to gain new skills in data management, making your data FAIR, and your workflows reproducible? Do you want training in open-source tools such as GitHub and R that can be used to achieve this? Join us for hands-on-training in the mountains! Please share widely!

www.uib.no/en/rg/EECRG/...

Council approves 'crucial' Conamara restoration project Galway County Council has approved plans by Coillte to carry out an environmental restoration project in Conamara.

This is fantastic news!

Coillte comes in for a lot of (generally deserved) criticism, but a lot of work went in to getting this over the line so well done to the team involved in this.

Now among Ireland's biggest rewilding projects!

www.rte.ie/news/connach...

Our new #DrForest paper has found canopy density & tree species diversity have varying impacts on health & wellbeing 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#foresthealth #biodiversity #urbanforests #forestmanagement #environmentalhealth #urbanplanning #research #Sustainability

Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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