Meshack Moranga
@obebo.bsky.social
nature recovery|land abandonment|earth observation 🛰️|meta-analysis|restoration- @maynoothuniversity.ie, 🇰🇪🇮🇪
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The Effect of Active versus Passive Interventions on Riparian Rehabilitation Success: er.uwpress.org/content/43/3...
The Effect of Active versus Passive Interventions on Riparian Rehabilitation Success
Anthropogenically-induced ecosystem transformations, like land-use change and biological invasions, have accelerated throughout the 20th century with significant impact on rivers and associated ripari...
er.uwpress.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The Effect of Active versus Passive Interventions on Riparian Rehabilitation Success: er.uwpress.org/content/43/3...
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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!
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!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Meshack Moranga
The Plot Builder in #JASP 0.95.0 is now powered by #tidyplots 🚀
Kudos to @matyasbukva.bsky.social
JASP is an open-source statistical software suite with a graphical user interface for conducting classical and Bayesian analyses.
jasp-stats.org
#rstats #dataviz #phd
Kudos to @matyasbukva.bsky.social
JASP is an open-source statistical software suite with a graphical user interface for conducting classical and Bayesian analyses.
jasp-stats.org
#rstats #dataviz #phd
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Plot Builder in #JASP 0.95.0 is now powered by #tidyplots 🚀
Kudos to @matyasbukva.bsky.social
JASP is an open-source statistical software suite with a graphical user interface for conducting classical and Bayesian analyses.
jasp-stats.org
#rstats #dataviz #phd
Kudos to @matyasbukva.bsky.social
JASP is an open-source statistical software suite with a graphical user interface for conducting classical and Bayesian analyses.
jasp-stats.org
#rstats #dataviz #phd
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🦠 Belowground microbial communities are important to ecosystem health. Recent research shows microbes increased savanna tree growth and could be critical for plant growth in the field but both are negatively affected by drought.🌳👉https://buff.ly/Z8AxLGF
July 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🦠 Belowground microbial communities are important to ecosystem health. Recent research shows microbes increased savanna tree growth and could be critical for plant growth in the field but both are negatively affected by drought.🌳👉https://buff.ly/Z8AxLGF
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🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy
July 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy
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🔎 Non-vascular plants exacerbate plant diversity loss estimates resulting from increased nutrient levels 👉 buff.ly/LJAIZzZ
July 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🔎 Non-vascular plants exacerbate plant diversity loss estimates resulting from increased nutrient levels 👉 buff.ly/LJAIZzZ
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🌱🦠 Soil biodiversity is important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and its stability with increasing number of global change factors. 👉 buff.ly/PS2Gers
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🌱🦠 Soil biodiversity is important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and its stability with increasing number of global change factors. 👉 buff.ly/PS2Gers
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Legacy article from times @niooknaw.bsky.social on legacy of drought on soil fungal communities and functions. Key finding is that communities in bulk soil recover pretty fast while soil C related functions remain changed. Photos of the experiment for attention!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Legacy article from times @niooknaw.bsky.social on legacy of drought on soil fungal communities and functions. Key finding is that communities in bulk soil recover pretty fast while soil C related functions remain changed. Photos of the experiment for attention!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
July 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
Preprint on national-scale satellite-based crop field delineation in smallholder landscapes is out:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
🌍 🛰️ 🌱 🌽👨🏿🌾🛖💻⚙️
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📚😅🎉
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📚😅🎉
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
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for reals plot in publication
July 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
for reals plot in publication
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During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches.
🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
July 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
During the ESA #LPS2025 in Vienna last week, I had the chance to present our work on estimating time series of vegetation indices for Central European #forests using Sentinel-1 #SAR, ancillary data and #ML approaches.
🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
🔗 More details in our paper published earlier this year: doi.org/10.1080/2096...
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Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA
'The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws'
www.rte.ie/news/environ...
'The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws'
www.rte.ie/news/environ...
Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA
The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws.
www.rte.ie
June 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Illegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage - EPA
'The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws'
www.rte.ie/news/environ...
'The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws'
www.rte.ie/news/environ...
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RStoolbox, an R package for remote sensing data analysis, is being presented at ESA #LPS25 today by @caipide.bsky.social and myself.
Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats
Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
RStoolbox, an R package for remote sensing data analysis, is being presented at ESA #LPS25 today by @caipide.bsky.social and myself.
Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats
Come to poster P32 to chat about spatial predictive modelling, spectral unmixing, change vector analysis, radiometric correction, cloud masking etc. using R! #rstats
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New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
Reposted by Meshack Moranga
Happening also today during #LPS25 F02.01 Harnessing the Power of EO for Research and Development in Africa session - Maximilian Schwarz will present parts of our project output #EOAfrica ADM-Kenya project and then during the poster season let’s chat about policy relevance and the capacity building!
June 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Happening also today during #LPS25 F02.01 Harnessing the Power of EO for Research and Development in Africa session - Maximilian Schwarz will present parts of our project output #EOAfrica ADM-Kenya project and then during the poster season let’s chat about policy relevance and the capacity building!
Nice article. There is much to be done to do away with the species though in some parts, it's burnt down and it's ash has so much potential to improve soil fertility though it has its negative impacts like those mentioned.
How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare
Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nice article. There is much to be done to do away with the species though in some parts, it's burnt down and it's ash has so much potential to improve soil fertility though it has its negative impacts like those mentioned.
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Come by poster stand L20 today at #LPS25. Happy to chat about #savanna ecosystems, vegetation structure, #GEDI #lidar, #Sentinel-1 and whatever else you have in mind!
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Come by poster stand L20 today at #LPS25. Happy to chat about #savanna ecosystems, vegetation structure, #GEDI #lidar, #Sentinel-1 and whatever else you have in mind!
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📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover:
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are critical‼️
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are critical‼️
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax
April 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣In our new paper we analyzed the impact of #Landsat and #Sentinel-2 🛰️ #satellite data density and SMA endmembers on trends in #grasslands ground cover:
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are critical‼️
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax
- for monthly composites data density is irrelevant
- correct endmember definitions are critical‼️
Check out the full paper tinyurl.com/wha6pzax
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🚀 I am thrilled to share the final Table of Contents for my upcoming book, Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools! Currently wrapping up the chapter on Distributed Computing with Apache Sedona. Aiming for a release before in two weeks. Stay tuned!
June 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🚀 I am thrilled to share the final Table of Contents for my upcoming book, Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools! Currently wrapping up the chapter on Distributed Computing with Apache Sedona. Aiming for a release before in two weeks. Stay tuned!
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Reminder: Feeling frustration, anxiety, anger and even despair is a rational responses to, and a natural consequence of, understanding climate change.
Frustration, powerlessness, anxiety, sadness, anger & little faith in Government action - how the public feels about climate change. Respondents say very clearly they want to be enabled to do more.
Climate Conversations 2025 consultation now open
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
Climate Conversations 2025 consultation now open
www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...
Irish public feels ‘more despair than hope’ about climate change, new research reveals
Frustration is the number one feeling the public report having when it comes to climate change, new research shows.
www.independent.ie
June 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reminder: Feeling frustration, anxiety, anger and even despair is a rational responses to, and a natural consequence of, understanding climate change.
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Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...
June 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Canopy disturbances affect insect diversity via increased light availability and deadwood, but the effects of these two drivers on taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity differ. New insights from a replicated experiment, led by @juliarothacher.bsky.social @betafor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.
Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.
🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQ... -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.
#SDSL2025 #SpatialDataScience #OpenSource
Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.
🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQ... -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.
#SDSL2025 #SpatialDataScience #OpenSource
June 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
📍 Registration is open for Spatial Data Science across Languages (SDSL) 2025 – Sept 17–18 (+19), Salzburg, Austria.
Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.
🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQ... -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.
#SDSL2025 #SpatialDataScience #OpenSource
Connect R, Python, Julia & more in spatial science.
🔗 forms.gle/E9fpG88V2VQQ... -- Apply for on-site by mid-July – limited spots.
#SDSL2025 #SpatialDataScience #OpenSource
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Great to hear from Lisa Norton @ukceh.bsky.social arguing the case for protecting weeds, at the @britishecologicalsociety.org symposium.
@tabledebates.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
@tabledebates.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Great to hear from Lisa Norton @ukceh.bsky.social arguing the case for protecting weeds, at the @britishecologicalsociety.org symposium.
@tabledebates.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
@tabledebates.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social