Plant Colonizers

I didn’t intentionally begin my 2-day #bikepack around Cayuga Lake on #WorldBicycleDay , but it’s a nice coincidence! Here’s to the #bicycle (that marvel of #sustainable transport), the beauty of the Finger Lakes, & Tina Christmann, who first showed me how much fun cycling can be!

PhD viva done ☑️

Huge thanks to AoifeBennett and Marion Pfeifer for an excellent discussion on tropical mountains, #remotesensing #restoration and #socialscience . Wonderful to have a fully female panel!

Huge shout out to Imma Oliveras Menor and Yadvinder Malhi for the ongoing support.

Congrats to ⁦Trisha Gopalakrishna⁩ and ⁦Tina Christmann⁩ for passing their DPhil (PhD) vivas yesterday, on forest restoration in India and Peru respectively. Extra special thanks to ⁦Marion Pfeifer⁩ for being examiner on both (7 hours in the same day!) …

So chuffed to submit my PhD thesis today titled ‘Revisiting the science and practice of ecosystem restoration in tropical mountains’ and to be supervised by such supportive and passionate researchers Imma Oliveras Menor and Yadvinder Malhi!

SoGE, University of Oxford Rhodes Trust Oxford Ecosystems

Its an honour to be continuously inspired by amazing #WomenInScience . Shoutout to co-editors of the fantastic Restoration Ecology feature of #earlycareerresearchers Tina Christmann Courtney Stuart and Dr Lisa M Wedding for showing us how to champion women! #WomensDay2023

Fascinating presentation on Andean forest restoration from Tina Christmann today. Interesting ideas around involving local communities for greater success.

Urban grassland phenology respond to the urban heat island! 🏙️🌱⏰

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Using an urban gradient grassland monitoring network we find that climate & urbanization shift timing of flowering of very understudied dry grasslands.

#biodiversity #grassland #berlin

For those at or covering #COP27 look out for this event! We were tired of saying 'PLANTING TREES IN AFRICAN SAVANNAS IS A REALLY BAD IDEA' so here we discuss the range of other more suitable nature based solutions for African grassy ecosystems
Sally Archibald

'But for all grass has done for us, we haven’t done much for grass lately.'

A cracking read about how our World's neglected grasslands provide one of the most promising and underrated climate solutions & biodiversity heavens.

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

#GTOE2022 was inspiring and fiery 🔥!
Coolest thing by far was to finally meet so many great female researchers, PhD students and to see my lab friends absolutely crush their presentation! Trisha Gopalakrishna Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.soc Rachel Carmenta Imma Oliveras Menor Erika Berenguer

Indeed! impressive talk by Erika Berenguer at #GTOE2022 about tropical deforestation and its political silence. Here the recorded video 👇

Today on the conference menu:
Mountain biogeography 🏔
Fabulously visual session with video explanations by Dr. Suzette Flantua - PPF-Alpine on how the Andean Páramos are like evolutionary ‘Sky island’. #mountainbiodiversity #Andes #gtoe2022 #biodiversity

Very excited for my first academic conference on tropical ecology!

I will present my research on 20 years of Forest recovery in the Andes ⛰ #GTOE2022 #biodiversity #PhD #generationrestoration #restoration

A fantastic speech by German climate activist Luisa Neubauer with concrete actions for how to ‘get out of a zone of convenience’ to halt climate change.