Masha van der Sande
Assist. prof. @Wageningen Uni, the Netherlands (@w-u-r.bsky.social). Interested in tropical forest functioning across time and space. 🔥Fire resilience. 🌳Secondary succession. 🪵Traits. Paleo- & Neo-ecology.
- Reposted by Masha van der Sande'Wie dat overdreven vindt, is óf gevaarlijk ongeïnformeerd, óf gevaarlijk naïef.' decorrespondent.nl/16657/donald...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeAre you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeCaroline de Gruyter in de NRC: "De Amerikanen zijn een bedreiging geworden voor de interne markt, de euro, en de Europese veiligheid en democratie. Europa heeft een eigen bedrading nodig, om overeind te blijven. En snel ook."
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeWat een goed artikel over #empathischeintelligentie #empathischebiologie. Eerst kijken, dan denken, dan doen.
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeFossiele subsidies kosten miljarden, verergeren de klimaatcrisis en staan in de weg van een gezonde toekomst. ✍️ Teken jij de petitie voor een stop op fossiele subsidies? www.brandbriefaanhetkabinet.nl
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeThe new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeExtra CO2 stimulates #photosynthesis of trees and reduces water losses through transpiration. But does that stimulate growth of #tree stems? Our paper today in NatClimateChange led by Quan Zhang uses theory & data to show that strong growth stimulation is unlikely.🌎🌐🍁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🔥Only 2 days left (until 26th) to apply! 2 PhD positions at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, on Amazon fire resilience!🔥
- 🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... Please share!
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeA 30,019-hectare forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia may soon be sold to agribusiness giant Bom Futuro, which plans to clear it, documents show. Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
- Reposted by Masha van der Sande📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶 www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
- Reposted by Masha van der Sande🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social #conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment Deadline 25 November! Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeTwo PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
- 🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/... Please share!
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeStemadvies van Loesje
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeOportunidade de Pós-Doutorado / Post-doctoral Research Opportunity in our lab!
- 🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP) 3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology. Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional. 📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25 🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade... #Postdoc #FireEcology
- Reposted by Masha van der SandePlease pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
- 🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
- 🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
- Reposted by Masha van der Sande🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥 Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandePlease pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeThree exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
- 🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥 In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
- 📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
- #Fires drove record-breaking tropical #forest loss last years, with steepest increase in Bolivia (see gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...). Coming 5 years, we will assess three main questions to understand #Amazon's #fire #resilience:
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeThis what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
- Reposted by Masha van der SandeHow do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)
- Reposted by Masha van der Sande“Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandePhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself Deadline: 4.8. www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
- Reposted by Masha van der SandePostdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
- This 👇🏼 confirms the tragedy we’ve witnessed in the Bolivian Amazon, with 2024 as record fire year.🔥 And it’s the reason we’re studying Amazon’s fire resilience in Madidi, Pilón and Chiquitanía.
- Global Forest Watch’s analysis of #TreeCoverLoss data from UMD Global Land Analysis and Discovery team reveals the tropics saw an unprecedented level of fires in 2024. We cannot afford to ignore the 2024 wake-up call 👉 go.wri.org/tree-cover-l...
- ⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡ Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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