Daniel Zuleta

I’m honored and grateful to receive this year’s ESA Emerging Ecologist Award. This is only possible because of the support of my family and the mentors, collaborators, mentees, and friends I’ve been fortunate to learn from and work with

💡We're still looking for proposals for our special feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social! 🪲This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions. Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/RtmeWgE

⏳ Two weeks left to apply to our Summer School, and benefit from the early-bird rate! Don’t miss this opportunity to join us for a week of inspiring lectures and discussions with an exceptional community of researchers - all set in the beautiful Pyrenees ⛰️ ☀️ We look forward to welcoming you! 🧪🌐

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine). 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141 @ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social 🧵1/9

This is really something: using the longest available data (1971–2019) and disentangling causal influences, a tropical forest is shown to have flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source due to increasingly extreme temperatures & cyclones!!!

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

It turns out we shouldn't expect #eDNA to capture local diversity/composition of tropical trees but rather broad patterns across regions. Together with a fairly coarse taxonomic resolution, the utility of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring of tropical forest trees is probably limited.

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture? We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity. (Please share with #eDNA folks!) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Ecosystems HRA, Sandra Díaz, for winning the 2025 Tyler Prize! Sandra's research has changed the way we understand biodiversity, ecosystems, and the deep ties between humans and nature. Watch this short film on Sandra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKy... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Only two weeks left to apply! The deadline is April 27 #tropical #forests #treemortality

Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside? Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇 Please share!

@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social is opening a new grant to attract researchers from outside Europe to come to Sweden! The call opens in mid-April but some details are already online: www.vr.se/english/just...

Super useful video library to liven up your presentations …

INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...). @treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social

Had an amazing time visiting Uppsala @uu.se this week. Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!

Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Almost there! We're 94% done with the 4th full census of the 25ha Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot (#AmacayacuFDP) in the Colombian Amazon! 🌳 Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"

We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America. Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳 👇performance on unseen tropical data

As someone long interested in latitudinal gradient in forest diversity and dynamics it’s been really gratifying to see this paper come together over time- looking forward to the new research on forest dynamics I think this will inspire!

To all PhD-, Master- and Bachelor students in ecological modeling: Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology! Would be great to see you there!

If you want to understand what's happening in European forests in terms of harvests, take a look at this! I’m so glad to finally have out our results quantifying harvest events from forest inventory data across 11 European countries. doi.org/10.1029/2024...

At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space? [1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌳 Call for proposals - 2025 ForestGEO Analytical Workshop, Nanyuki, Kenya The ATFS Tropical Forest Mortality Working Group will be one of the breakout groups Any project related to tropical tree mortality (regardless of the network) is eligible. Apply by 2/18: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and...

Extended deadline to January 7. Come join us in Gothenburg! 🤩

🚨 #PhD alert! Can #tropical trees migrate up mountains to track climate change? 🌳🌱⛰️ If they can’t, extinction may follow. Help us answer this question, working in tropical forests in the #Andes. Amazing fieldwork opportunities, & mega team led by @belenfadrique.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mr35spbj

📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Closes: 18th January

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... In 2023, I was part of the symposium “Anthromes, CO2, and Terrestrial Carbon: From the deep past to net-zero”, after which J. Aaron Hogan masterfully led an interesting analysis on how the concept of Anthromes can be used to understand global land carbon.

Hurricanes cause tremendous damage to forests, whether natural or plantations, but we know very little about what actually happens to trees during high winds (for obvious reasons). In our latest work we have the answer... 🧵👇🧪🌏 1/12

The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the #extinction of large #mammals (+large #birds & #reptiles)-press release on our review on the #megafauna #extinctions & their consequences 🦙🐘🦣🐆https://bit.ly/4fpwMFs 🦣🌿🌍 #ecology #paleobiology #archaeology #rewilding

New Perspective: Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes - led by Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen @jeep4x4.bsky.social of @aarhusuni.bsky.social #soilcarbonstorage #climatecrisis #Arctic #naturebasedsolutions #herbivory #Permafrost www.nature.com/articles/s41...