I will soon be looking for a PhD student to explore regeneration dynamics in tropical forests across disturbance and mycorrhizal fungal gradients. Please email me if you are interested.

Here is an interesting article on forest connectivity and oil palm restoration in Mongabay. I was interviewed as a topica expert. Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

I have finally started my new position at EEZA-CSIC with my new Ramon y Cajal grant! Thanks for the great opportunity for impacting science. #eeza_csic

Our Laat website is up and running guatechocolaat.com! Learn about the project history, check out our products and order online in the USA!!!

I have some new work with collaborators showing that even at spatial scales of a few meters plants show genetic adaptation to different environments driven by biotic interactions! https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.13461

Have a look at the new project pages!

I have some new research out on the movement of soluble sugars during drought from a unique experiment with 13C labeling of seedlings done by Anabelle Valtat all the way back in 2014. Please have a look! O’Brien et al. Journal of Plant Ecology

We have some new work looking at logging recovery from remote sensing images. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.01.005

One of my favorite websites for dreaming about country living. http://tinyhousetalk.com/