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Jürgen Homeier

@jhomeier.bsky.social

Plant ecologist (tropical forest dynamics, plant species composition, functional traits, environmental change)

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So many brilliant minds in one photo.
Thank you for joining #ECTE2026 from all over the world 🌍🌎🌏

📷 Ina Voshage

25.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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An inspiring talk by Alexandre Antonelli from @rbgkew.bsky.social on #TropicalEcology, #Science and #Conservation and the huge, but workable, task ahead of us! @soctropecol.bsky.social

24.02.2026 08:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products.
Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...
Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

04.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0
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Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution This study examines long-term changes in species richness across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species...

Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!

23.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 46    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 3
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Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes.

Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

23.01.2026 12:11 — 👍 42    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 1
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Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
🧪🍁🌐

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

17.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 78    🔁 40    💬 0    📌 2
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I am happy to share that our bilingual field guide is now published!🌳📖
It shows fruits, seeds & seedlings 🥭🌱 of 40 plant species of the Tropical Dry Forest at the Laipuna reserve, Ecuador.🌎

➡️ doi.org/10.5678/jcfh...

#Ecuador #TDF #RESPECT #FOR2730 #plantidentification #fruits #seeds #seedlings

27.11.2025 07:19 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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de Aledo ( @juliagdealedo.bsky.social ) et al. (2025) Plant functional traits shape the provision of ecosystem services to Indigenous communities in western Amazonia - @peopleandnature.bsky.social 👌👌👌

doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

03.11.2025 09:37 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Open Letter by scientists to the Council:
"Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”.
Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025,
2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets.
zenodo.org/records/1739...

20.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 99    🔁 80    💬 1    📌 21
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We are looking forward to receiving your scientific session proposal for the 9th European Conference of Tropical Ecology – ECTE 2026 – under the theme of “Species – Ecosystems – People”. The call for sessions will stay open until 18 June 2025.

🔗 www.conftool.net/gtoe2026/

11.06.2025 12:16 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

The forest space age needs eyes on the ground
rdcu.be/enT5S

@bzgeo.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @tropicalforesters.bsky.social @cienciatropical.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @congobasinscience.bsky.social @groundtruth.app @erikaberenguer.bsky.social

27.05.2025 11:13 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long‐Term Studies Click on the article title to read more.

Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌾

07.04.2025 04:00 — 👍 58    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
Buttermaker- Arminia Bielefeld
YouTube video by dscJo Buttermaker- Arminia Bielefeld

Today is the time to hear this song in repeat #Arminia #WirFahrenNachBerlin youtu.be/9PVI-4myKHM?...

02.04.2025 07:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Liana functional trait sampling in the seasonal dry tropical forest of the Laipuna Natural Reserve in S Ecuador with great field team!🙂

01.04.2025 02:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today.

This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
rainfor.org/wp-content/u...
annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...

24.03.2025 14:14 — 👍 52    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0