Emilio Vilanova
Venezuelan | 🌳 Forest ecologist /scientist. Senior Program Officer - Forest Carbon (ARR | IFM) @VERRA. Views and opinions are my own en English & Español.
- Once published, I think this paper will be significant for the global community interested in the global forest carbon sink www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaClimate warming is generally making trees grow faster, but the greater effect is that tree growth is becoming more unpredictable, creating a threat to the stability of forests. New paper by Li & He (2026). 🧪🌏🌐🌲🌳
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- "Our results reveal that mining-induced deforestation is two to three times higher than previous estimates, accounting for 19,765 km2 of deforestation. Notably, over half (50.29%) of this deforestation is linked to unrecorded mining activities" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌴🔥 🍁
- Reposted by Emilio Vilanovaenvironment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaA new study warns that climate change could wipe out large areas where the Amazon’s biggest trees can survive. If emissions stay high, up to 45% of their habitat could be lost by 2080. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaTree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaTropical Montane Cloud Forests Have High Resilience to Five Years of Severe Soil Drought 🔗 buff.ly/rwpl5Xu
- Oil helped build Venezuela’s science. Can oil now revive it? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
- I’m proud to be a co-author on this study, greatly led by Belen, which uses four decades of plot data across the Andes and Amazon to reveal how tree species richness is shifting in response to global change. Sustaining and expanding long-term collaborations like this is of extreme importance!
- Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaIntense droughts have caused water stress and elevated mortality for trees in the Amazon, foreshadowing the future of tropical forests as the climate changes go.nature.com/4qpTWRv
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- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaI’m #hiring - Our company is looking for a Remote Sensing Data Engineer! If you're interested innovative remote sensing analytics and developing systems to scale-up reforestation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Our j.d. and links to apply are here: lnkd.in/gvzb_3ck Reach out to learn more 🧪🌳🌐🍁
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaThe red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaGood morning everyone. Today in “one day, one paper “, forest loss intensifies meteorological drought across over half of global climate zones, with boreal regions most affected as reduced precipitation and altered surface energy amplify water deficits and extend drought impacts 🌎🍁
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaNew research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaEcological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaLand-use change is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon, but the risk of abrupt forest decline, along with its potentially devastating consequences, increases as the planet warms, with a strong nonlinear trend beyond 2.3° C of warming. In PNAS: ow.ly/6Prr50XKAN1
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- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaPlease contribute! We neex broad input, different forest types, and an array of natural disturbances to see how disturbance regimes are changing.
- Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaComment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Amazon forest faces severe decline under the dual pressures of anthropogenic climate change and land-use change | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaCalling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
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- Reposted by Emilio Vilanova"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaThe most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaExtreme Heatwave Causes Immediate, Widespread Mortality of Forest Canopy Foliage, Highlighting Modes of Forest Sensitivity to Extreme Heat 🔗 buff.ly/CfdgwRy
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaQUESTION: @evilanova.bsky.social and I were discussing resources for finding root:shoot ratios (belowground biomass, root biomass, etc) for global forests / ecoregions And really doesn't feel like there has been much progress in this Any suggestions for where to look!?? 🧪🌎🌳🍁
- ‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaCarbon emissions are helping make older trees in the Amazon bigger. But “it doesn’t mean carbon dioxide is good for the forest," says Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert @camplantsci.bsky.social. "What we’re seeing is resilience, not relief.” eos.org/articles/as-...
- The world’s carbon emissions continue to rise. But 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...
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- Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I still remember my early days teaching forest management, ~ 20 years ago, using some of F.E. "Jack" Putz's early work to illustrate the need for improved management, especially in the tropics. While I enjoyed reading this new sort of "reflection" piece (1/3)
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- Great to see our paper (led by @nanimuelbert) about the increase in tree size in Amazonia featured on the cover!
- According to this paper, there could be c. 55.5 million tall trees (> 60 m height) across the Brazilian Amazon, with the highest density in the northeast portion. These trees have a disproportionate contribution to the carbon stored in these forests! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaExcited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️ We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation. You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaClimate change is reshaping forests around the globe go.nature.com/4mHKeXW
- apnews.com/article/flyi... Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaThe world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
- Reposted by Emilio Vilanova💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.
- Perhaps the first formal paper on tropical forests ecology I read in college was one from Arturo Gomez Pompa a long time ago 😞
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- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaA year-long experiment in a wet tropical #forest found that 4°C of warming boosted soil CO2 emissions by 42-204%. These high rates suggest tropical #soils may release more #carbon under future warming than #climate models predict. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- www.nature.com/articles/s41... "...Our analysis reveals a widespread decline in human-directed disturbances alongside a countervailing surge in less controllable, undirected ‘wild’ disturbances (fire, wind/geohazard and vegetation stress), which account for 24% of the total disturbed area..."
- Reposted by Emilio VilanovaAcross 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Emilio Vilanova🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Does anyone here remember a recent video of a rare finding of a tropical bird (thought to be extinct) where the local guide is almost crying of happiness? #help 🐦 🌳
- www.eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cie... #Treemortality Forests in Patagonia are experiencing high levels of tree mortality most likely linked to increasing temperatures and severity of droughts
- Scientists May Have Identified a Culprit Behind Declining Amazon Rains www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
- www.nature.com/articles/s41... How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest: “…Over the past 35 yrs, deforestation has accounted for approximately 74% of the ~ 21 mm dry season−1 decline and 16.5% of the 2°C rise in max surface air temp.”
- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... “…we show how the disruption of this mutualism [between elephants and ebony trees] by poaching exacerbates seed predation by herbivores and was associated with a 68% reduction in small sapling recruitment…”
- Reposted by Emilio Vilanova#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important? Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁 #dendrochronology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- www.theguardian.com/environment/... "...we show deforestation-induced local warming is associated with 28,000 (95% confidence interval: 23,610–33,560) heat-related deaths per year using a pan-tropical assessment..."
- Reposted by Emilio Vilanova🔥🔥🔥 Why are wildfires more severe in private industrial forests? Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has the answers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 Thread below
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