Tim Baker
@kofitim
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Ecology, evolution and conservation of tropical forests and their role in climate change mitigation, with sharpest focus on Peru
Joined May 2013
Download our new #AmazonBasin #Peat maps here- https://t.co/ApOfCR227n From- https://t.co/AnKkrhWlg7 via @IOPenvironment @science_charles @IiapPeru @univofstandrews @GeosciencesEd @KHRoucoux @EuridiceHonorio @KewScience @kofitim @KITKarlsruhe #OpenAccess
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Amazon_peat_map: Predicted extent of Peat (organic soil of ≥ 30 cm thickness) across the study area (Amazon basin below 500 m and mean annual precipitation >1,390 mm) at 90 m resolution. Amazon_e...
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We have a new paper on NPP in Peruvian peatlands, just published today: https://t.co/ufNhKnOrsK
#PeatPaper #PeatTwitter @pashkito @KHRoucoux @SimonLLewis @EdMitchard @AdamHastie6 @kofitim @FCDraper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Our understanding of carbon cycling in tropical peatlands is limited by the lack of data on forest productivity and litter decomposition. Here we present measurements from two floristically distinct...
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Our new #Map predicts substantial undocumented #peatland areas in #Amazonia
https://t.co/AnKkrhVNqz via @IOPenvironment
@science_charles @univofstandrews @IiapPeru @KewScience @KITKarlsruhe @ucsc @GeosciencesEd @IVIC_oficial @WUR #carbon
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Good example of how you learn more when you put data from herbarium specimens and ecological plots together
#Ecology and #taxonomy working together - @TheBotanics' David Harris explores the benefits of interdisciplinary research in the rainforests of Congo and beyond: https://t.co/PSbzWWIIYF
#BotanicsStories
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Great collaboration using in part our @MooreFound #MonANPeru plot data: lowland forests in Peru, away from the drier edge of Amazonia, are some of the most resistant to El Nino and therefore even more crucial to conserve @SERNANP @IiapPeru
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very useful paper - and those herbaria are of course also crucial for training, species discovery and supporting all sorts of on-the-ground conservation decisions as well
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Last couple days to apply for this exciting #postdoc project with me, monitoring #methane dynamics in the Peruvian Amazon! #PeatTwitter #PeatECR Deadline 14th June!
📣Exciting three-year #PDRA available with me @CranfieldEnviro & @CranfieldAgrifo. 🌴Assess key environmental and ecological drivers of regional #methane dynamics 🇵🇪 Fieldwork in Peru, with @aberdeenuni & @IiapPeru 🌎Apply here: https://t.co/2xqI1c7YhW
#PeatTwitter #PeatECR
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📢📢This workshop on using AI to measure biodiversity/ecosystem change is happening this Weds/Thurs in Liverpool. If you would like to join the sessions online (for free) then register on zoom here.📢📢 https://t.co/uEdIsf73mg
Interested in exploring the role of AI in biodiversity research? Come and join us for a two day @turinginst funded workshop in Liverpool 17/18th May. Travel, accommodation and food covered for UK researchers. places are limited so get in touch ASAP!
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Many Congratulations to @Tavares_JuliaV for her Nature paper! Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts Amazon forest carbon balance. https://t.co/zWA0vSLEVW
nature.com
Nature - A pan-Amazon study of forests shows large variations in drought tolerance traits and finds that forests in regions of pronounced climate change are losing biomass and may be operating...
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Very, very happy to share our recent publication at @GlobalChangeBio, exploring forest disturbance and recovery in Peruvian Amazonia through a combination of RS methods and datasets with Peru's National Forest Inventory! Open access pub: https://t.co/RmSHKo2dbU
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Interested in exploring the role of AI in biodiversity research? Come and join us for a two day @turinginst funded workshop in Liverpool 17/18th May. Travel, accommodation and food covered for UK researchers. places are limited so get in touch ASAP!
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Hot off the press! Published today at @iaptglobal Taxon, "The challenges of classifying big genera such as Ipomoea". A short thread 🧵 #OpenAccess
https://t.co/Hid5jD2qmO
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Big genera represent a significant proportion of the world's plants. However, comprehensive taxonomic and evolutionary studies of these genera are often complicated by their size and geographic...
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Putting something in a display cabinet makes you see it differently - like the bottle of palm fruit juice that was at the back of our fridge for more than a year…
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Great to see the beautiful ‘For Peatlands Sake’ exhibition curated by @KHRoucoux with @EuridiceHonorio @lydcole exploring the history, ecology and management of peatlands in Scotland and Peru @MuseumsUniStA
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Paper by @joana_lx_bm et al @SoGLeeds @UniversityLeeds @UNFCCC suggests changes to earth observation products developed by @esa @NASA necessary for countries' reporting to #ParisAgreement #GlobalStocktake to assess global progress to #climate targets https://t.co/FKNSkZru4L 🌴🛰️
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Ready to explore the unexpected? Join us to open the exhibition “For Peatlands’ Sake” on 29 January @MuseumsUniStA! 👉 The exhibit was developed with @KHRoucoux & shows research by Peatlands@StAndrews research group, & the Tropical Wetlands Consortium
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📢Excited to announce two fully funded #PhD positions at new Carbon & Wetlands Research Group ( https://t.co/o1rX1KJYnX)
@science_charles in beautiful #Prague, working on #tropicalpeatlands! Applicants from everywhere welcome. Please share! See below 👇
adamhastie.wordpress.com
Studying spatial and temporal variation of wetland carbon cycles.
💣 Starting this Monday, it is possible to apply for the STARS program, which our faculty announces for the best PhD students. 👉More at https://t.co/JNDNEK3sJM The deadline for applications is March 13, 2023. @CharlesUniPRG
#phd #phdstudy #phdstudent #phdpositions
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PhD studentship: Peat-forming seasonally flooded forests of the Peruvian Amazon, their distribution, carbon storage, and long-term ecology @StAndrewsSGSD, @univstandrews and @SUERC1 through NERC DTP #IAPETUS2. Drs Ian Lawson, @EuridiceHonorio, @KHRoucoux, @PaulineGuliver
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Just as a new government in Brazil appears set to revert deforestation in the Amazon, the Peruvian congress passes a new forestry zoning law that excludes the environment ministry from decisions and will ramp up biodiversity loss and carbon emissions.
🚨A pesar de opinión contraria de entidades especializadas, Comisión Agraria de @congresoperu aprobó por insistencia nefasto proyecto de modificación de Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre que excluye a MINAM de zonificación forestal y que abre la puerta a deforestación masiva!!!
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