Tom Ovenden
Senior #Scientist and Global Change Ecologist at Forest Research in the UK ❤ Mostly study #Forest Ecology, #Silviculture, Disturbance Dynamics & Drought #Resilience. 🌲🌳📷📽
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- Reposted by Tom OvendenReally excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- So excited to announce this newly funded project 🎉 🌲 We want to understand relationships between forest structural diversity (not just species diversity!), #drought #resilience and timber quality using cutting edge remote sensing #LiDAR) and tree cores to look back in time at tree growth!
- Absolutely delighted to have secured funding through the Centre for Forest Protection and be collaborating with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social on this exciting research!
- Reposted by Tom Ovenden🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
- Reposted by Tom Ovenden🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Tom Ovenden📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪
- Reposted by Tom OvendenNew in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.
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- Great opportunity to do some awesome science at @rbgkew.bsky.social and @forestresearchuk.bsky.social on our new project combining dendrochronology & genetics to find climate resilient genotypes in oak! 🍁 🌳🧬 🥼Job: PostDoc 💷 Salary: £43,751 🗓️ Closing date: 05/06/25 careers.kew.org/internal/vac...
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- 🎉🌲🌳🍁🛰️ NEW PROJECT! Delighted to announce that our NEW 3yr project “Enhancing forest resilience through stand structural complexity” has been funded through @forest-protection.bsky.social to look at relationships between forest structure & drought resilience! www.forestprotection.uk/2025/05/06/a...
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- Only 1 day left to apply to come and work with us at Forest Research!!🔬 🌲🌳📊👇🍁 🌲🔬Role: Data analyst 📆 Closing date: 15th April 💷 Salary: £32,089 + a 28.97% pension ⏳Duration: Fixed term May 2025 - March 2026 with the possibility of extension Apply HERE: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...
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- Reposted by Tom OvendenSetting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Tom Ovenden1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology
- Job Alert! Interested in cutting edge forest science, fieldwork and data analysis? 🍁 x2 Roles: Data analyst/modeller Closing date for application: 15th April Salary: £32,089 Duration: Fixed term, May 2025 - March 2026 possibility of extension www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
- Making this film was a lot of fun! Many thanks to all the wonderful Scientists that hosted me in Argentina and Chile during this Short Scientific Visit in 2023, and to IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social for funding it! 🍁 #SciComm #Forest #Ecology #Resilience #ClimateChange #Climate #PlantScience
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- Love these starter packs, great way of rebuilding your ecological science community on BS 🙂Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 3: go.bsky.app/MkLHiKUat://did:plc:ppsghcl5bbpgjcljnhra353s/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lhycfce4ar2p
- The beautiful Anagach Pinewoods in the #Cairngorms, managed by the local community! A nice place to get lost for a bit 🙂
- Reposted by Tom Ovenden🚨PhD opportunity: Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity 🌲🌳🌱 Advertised by colleagues at @ukceh.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social How can we manage woodlands to deliver for biodiversity & climate-change mitigation? tinyurl.com/mr3w76yd
- Reposted by Tom OvendenGlobal Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾at://did:plc:ppsghcl5bbpgjcljnhra353s/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lfum2bjpab24
- Interesting 3 year funded PhD -> Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com
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- Delighted to have led this research and always great to see our science published! Check out this video, the paper and a data explorer we’ve built so that YOU can interactively explore the data and the results yourself! Thanks to the FR team and Forestry England for making this research possible🍁
- I’ve heard of this before but never actually seen it myself until this week - an old stump of a previously felled Momi fir (Abies firma) healed over but is still alive many years later - I’m guessing from roots which have grafted to other living trees below ground! Pretty cool! #forest
- Bit late I know but couldn’t not share these amazing Northern Lights photos on New Years Day! That has to be a good omen for the year right!?!?
- Final 2 days of an awesome 4 day cycle trip doing the Morray Gravel Triangle which links up the Speyside, Moray and Dava ways! No option but to ride through #StormDarragh 😂 - fortunately less intense than expected but my lord was it wet!
- 2 days down, 2 days to go! Love a beautiful winter #bikepacking adventure in Scotland!
- Another beautiful winter night in a #Scottish bothy - never seen so many red deer!
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