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RealClimate: We need NOAA now more than ever https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/03/we-need-noaa-now-more-than-ever/

RealClimate: We need NOAA now more than ever https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/03/we-need-noaa-now-more-than-ever/

Be wary of what you read in the...

Be wary of what you read in the headlines.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/02/how-will-media-report-on-this-new-amoc-study/

DOGE is pronounced "dodgy".

DOGE is pronounced "dodgy".

Yesss!https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/6/from-street-names-to-textbooks-senegal-is-rewriting-french-colonial-memory

Yesss!

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/6/from-street-names-to-textbooks-senegal-is-rewriting-french-colonial-memory

Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored.#SavannasMatter @ecology...

Open letter: There are more than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored.

#SavannasMatter
@ecology

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ppp3.10635

The 5th paragraph is an example of debunking a myth with another myth framed as "Truth". Besides the FAO's fatally flawed...

The 5th paragraph is an example of debunking a myth with another myth framed as "Truth". Besides the FAO's fatally flawed definition of #forest possibly protecting #GrassyBiomes from agric expansion, how can conversion to agric not be human-induced? #SavannasMatter

https://pro-news.globalforestwatch.org/news-events/busting-3-myths-about-deforestation-monitoring-for-the-eudr?utm_campaign=decrecap2024&utm_medium=bitly&utm_source=MonthlyRecap

@ecology

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595?login=true

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595?login=true

Perpetuation of the myth that savannas are "barren" and forests are "fertile"."This model shows two stable states,...

Perpetuation of the myth that savannas are "barren" and forests are "fertile".

"This model shows two stable states, one being a fertile forest state and the other being a barren savanna state."

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-024-10176-y

#SavannasMatter
@ecology

The webinar by Land & Carbon Lab on 18th July on mapping the world's trees should be interesting, especially for those doing...

The webinar by Land & Carbon Lab on 18th July on mapping the world's trees should be interesting, especially for those doing #SavannaScience who know that tree height and cover are not sufficient metrics for defining forests. #SavannasMatter

@ecology

https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai

C4 vegetation covers 17.5% of global land surface. C4 natural grass cover decreased from 2001-2019 (due to elevated CO2) and C4 crop cover...

C4 vegetation covers 17.5% of global land surface. C4 natural grass cover decreased from 2001-2019 (due to elevated CO2) and C4 crop cover increased (because of maize expansion).

C4 photosynthesis accounts for ~19% of global photosynthesis (~3% from C4 crops and ~16% from C4 natural grasses).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45606-3

#SavannasMatter

Planting trees in the name of #reforestation is BAD for #TropicalGrassyBiomes.

#BiomeAwarenessDisparity

“…vegetation definitions that only consider tree cover are problematic for tropical grassy...

“…vegetation definitions that only consider tree cover are problematic for tropical grassy biomes…”

science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj0899

#SavannasMatter
#TropicalGrassyBiomes
#forests #reforestation

@ecology

A short analysis of the ICJ ruling.https://aje.io/wma1eg?update=2650983

A short analysis of the ICJ ruling.

https://aje.io/wma1eg?update=2650983

Forest & Non-forest can't be defined by tree cover alone.The WRI's Trees Outside Forests Indicator of forest extent is based on...

Forest & Non-forest can't be defined by tree cover alone.

The WRI's Trees Outside Forests Indicator of forest extent is based on defining land that has trees outside forests as "all human-managed urban and agricultural land with tree cover and all other land with greater than zero percent and less than 10 percent tree cover".

https://research.wri.org/gfr/forest-extent-indicators/trees-outside-forests?utm_campaign=janrecap2024&utm_medium=bitly&utm_source=MonthlyRecap.

The definition misclassifies #TropicalGrassyBiomes that have >10% tree cover as 'forest'.
#BiomeAwarenessDisparity

#SavannasMatter

@ecology

Millions of USD going into planting trees in...

Millions of USD going into planting trees in Africa.

https://www.africa.terramatch.org/?utm_campaign=janrecap2024&utm_medium=bitly&utm_source=MonthlyRecap

All based on arbitrary structural definitions of trees and forests.

https://greater-rift-valley-worldresources.hub.arcgis.com/

No inclusion of plant functional traits to distinguish #TropicalGrassyBiomes with fire-tolerant, shade-intolerant trees and shrubs from #forests with fire-intolerant, shade-intolerant trees.

#SavannasMatter

@ecology

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311280120The authors provide evidence that vegetation changes in SE Asia during the Last Glacial...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2311280120

The authors provide evidence that vegetation changes in SE Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum involved "fluid" transitions between lowland rainforest, seasonally dry forest and tropical montane forest, not switches between forest and savanna. However, their depiction of the alternative stable state model of forests and savannas is flawed. It doesn't consider recent insights and is based on erroneous interpretation of earlier studies in #SavannaScience.
#SavannasMatter

https://whylivestockmatter.org/alive-4-climate-alliance#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #livestockmatter#SavannasMatter

https://whylivestockmatter.org/alive-4-climate-alliance

#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #livestockmatter
#SavannasMatter

#Gaza #Israel Interesting opinion here:https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/11/can-netanyahu-survive-hamass-attack-on-israelMakes...

#Gaza #Israel

Interesting opinion here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/11/can-netanyahu-survive-hamass-attack-on-israel

Makes #Netanyahu sound just like the proverbial "3rd World" dictator, or leader of any country that the "1st World" loves to label as a failed state.

#ParachuteScience and the exclusion of #GlobalSouth by #GlobalNorth. Ironically "...previous analyses of scientific authorship in the...

#ParachuteScience and the exclusion of #GlobalSouth by #GlobalNorth.

Ironically "...previous analyses of scientific authorship in the Global South were predominantly conducted by authors based in the Global North..."

"African authors were significantly underrepresented in large, multicountry studies, accounting for only 6% of primary authors and 66% of these publications contained no African author."

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/csp2.13013

#AcademicChatter
#ConservationBiology
#Ecology

Why is it wrong to monitor global #forests using only vegetation structure? "Monitoring global forests using only structural metrics...

Why is it wrong to monitor global #forests using only vegetation structure?

"Monitoring global forests using only structural metrics – problems and solutions from a savanna viewpoint"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112723006151

#SavannasMatter
#TropicalGrassyBiomes