Tom Pugh

Mechanisms of size-related crown dieback.

Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Commentary by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YWNADQ...

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.

Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Global Carbon Budget 2025 Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Swedish Climate Symposium: Call for Abstracts open

SCS is a symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Explore the programme to see which sessions are accepting abstracts. Submit by 30 January: swedishclimatesymposium.com

Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

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We’re taking a moment to reflect on our progress and set new priorities together. We kick
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– What matters most to you
– Where ITMN should focus next
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We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network.

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Flyer for EGU26 session: Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models Convener: Lucia Sophie LayritzECS | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola HeinrichECS, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner | Deadline January 15th 2026

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍

Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️

👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

ForestPaths disturbance maps now available on FISE With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System f...

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe!

Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually.

🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

Nice piece! Even "just" the land model often makes my head explode...

Cool opportunity in a great team who inspire working to improve not just technical methodology but also collaboration methodology :-)

Exciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...

@forestpaths.eu

@forestpaths.eu

Combining empirical and mechanistic understanding of spruce bark beetle outbreak dynamics in the LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, r13130) vegetation model Abstract. For exploring forest performance in the future, dynamic vegetation models are important tools. Tree mortality is a crucial process in these models, but explicit representations of major agen...

A new bark beetle damage model for European forests, now online as part of LPJ-GUESS. Conceptualised and brought to life by Fredrik Lagergren to bring virtual death to simulated spruce in the name of understanding forest vulnerability
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

A massive thanks to Yongshuo Fu, Shouzhi Chen and Jia Zitong for the collaboration to make it possible and hosting!

A fun trip to Beijing for the 3rd edition of the LPJ-GUESS training school at Beijing Normal University with @lundjing.bsky.social, @haoming98.bsky.social and Stefan Olin. Many cool projects from the participants and interesting conversations. Learnt a lot!

Climate modelling and the forest Climate modelling and the forest

How do forests shape the climate — and how does a changing climate reshape our forests? What can science reveal about the forests of tomorrow?

With the municipality of Lund we produced this mini documentary about climate modeling and the forest, as part of an exhibition at Skrylle outside of Lund

General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...

in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change

New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity
www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/thes...

Elevated CO2 Increases the Canopy Temperature of Mature Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak) We investigated the impact of high atmospheric CO2, similar to that predicted for 2050, on tree canopy temperature dynamics of mature pedunculate oak using long-term, high-frequency thermal infrared ...

Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment

dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...

How soil and climate interact to control biomass in #Brasil's #Caatinga, the largest dry tropical forest in the Americas.

Congratulations to Alexandre Brunello, Tomas Domingues and colleagues for this tour-de-force.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded

PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...

📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

@aargles.bsky.social @rosieafisher.bsky.social @coxypm.bsky.social @hisashisato.bsky.social @stineb.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social @ckoven.bsky.social

The article outlines specific benchmarking variables that can already be used to improve predictions of forest responses to environmental change. As well as data very much needed.