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César Terrer @c_terrer

Asst. Professor at MIT @terrerlab_mit @mit_cee Carbon-cycle, global change, nutrients, plants, soils, their interactions and everything in between.

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César Terrer@c_terrer
29 Jul 2025
Our new TerrerLab research in PNAS shows animals drive tropical forest regrowth x4 🦜->🌳; disrupting animal seed dispersal has already reduced forest carbon uptake >50% in restoration sites.
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For the first time! 😍
MIT CEE@MIT_CEE
10 Dec 2025
Congrats to Prof. César Terrer on being named to Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list! 🎉 The annual list recognizes researchers whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations in their field. cee.mit.edu/mit-professor-ce…
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Calling prospective #postdocs to apply to the prestigious MIT School of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: engineering.mit.edu/engineer…

Applying to the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

Applications for the 2026-28 cohort will open on or after November 17, 2025. Please visit this page again for additional information.

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🚨 Faculty position at MIT, at the intersection of computing and ecosystem and biodiversity modeling cee.mit.edu/people/shared-fa…

Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman...

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candid...

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MIT CEE@MIT_CEE
18 Aug 2025
Prof. César Terrer and Trevor Cambron SM ’25 examine plants under elevated CO2 and their impact on climate models in a new review paper published in @NatureClimate cee.mit.edu/plant-nutrient-s…

Plant nutrient strategies could reshape carbon sink predictions - cee.mit.edu

New study examines plants under elevated CO₂ and their impact on climate models Each year, plants and trees absorb roughly one-third of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) that human activities release into the...

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Excited to share our new review paper published today in @NatureClimate: “Plant nutrient acquisition under elevated CO2 and implications for the land carbon sink”. nature.com/articles/s41558-0…
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Article in New Scientist about our PNAS animal-carbon paper newscientist.com/article/249… 🦜🌳

Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon

An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage

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Our new TerrerLab research in PNAS shows animals drive tropical forest regrowth x4 🦜->🌳; disrupting animal seed dispersal has already reduced forest carbon uptake >50% in restoration sites.
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Research led by the amazing TerrerLab Research Scientist Evan Fricke; with Susan Cook-Patton and Charlie Harvey
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Our results highlight win-wins to address the biodiversity and climate crises together pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…

Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth | PNAS

Identifying linkages between biodiversity loss and climate change is required for understanding the scope of these interconnected challenges and de...

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MIT CEE@MIT_CEE
12 Jun 2025
A new study from a team of researchers including Prof. César Terrer and research scientist Evan Fricke maps out where tree restoring can have the biggest impact, without interfering with food, water, or wildlife. theguardian.com/environment/…
Upward view of trees with green foliage, sunlight filtering through the sky overhead.

ALT Upward view of trees with green foliage, sunlight filtering through the sky overhead.
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📢Just published in Nature Water: ecosystem restoration for carbon sequestration could reduce global water availability per capita by 26%. We propose a framework to balance carbon storage with water security. 🌱💧nature.com/articles/s44221-0…

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🚨 Faculty Job Alert! 🚨 The MIT Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the intersection of computing, environmental life sciences, and ecology! 🌱💻 faculty-searches.mit.edu/cee…
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Elsa Ordway@ElsaOrdway
25 Sep 2024
We're thrilled to have our draft #PANGEA white paper out. Both the #ARID and #PANGEA white papers are open for public comment until Nov 5. Please share your input. We look forward to incorporating more feedback!
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Trevor Keenan@trevorkeenan
29 Aug 2024
New faculty position in ... Climate Change Solutions at @NatureAtCal aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04… nature-based climate solutions; ecosystem function and biodiversity; social and ecological determinants of risk and resilience [1/2]

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eCO2 can increase NPP and biomass even in old forests, potentially due to a large increase in root exudates (and mediated by ectomycorrhizal fungi?): nature.com/articles/s41558-0…

Enhanced woody biomass production in a mature temperate forest under elevated CO2

Nature Climate Change - While experiments in younger trees support increased production under higher CO2, it is unclear whether more mature trees can respond similarly. Here, the authors show...

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Couldn’t be prouder of TerrerLab PhD student @JevanYu, who was just awarded the prestigious FINESST Fellowship from @NASA
MIT CEE@MIT_CEE
28 Aug 2024
Graduate student Jevan Yu was awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Fellowship to support his research on wildfires in peatlands. cee.mit.edu/mit-civil-and-en…
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Nature Geoscience@NatureGeosci
23 Aug 2024
Article: Increasing the number of global changes reduces the resistance of ecosystem services worldwide @GuiyaoZhou @EisenhauerLab @c_terrer @DJ_Eldridge @Guirado_e @MiguelBerdugo1 @LiuShengen @ManuDelBaq @BioFunLab nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
Global maps of the predicted distribution of multiservice resistance in response to an increasing number of global change factors

ALT Global maps of the predicted distribution of multiservice resistance in response to an increasing number of global change factors
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New study by Shuli Chen and @scott_saleska reveals the Amazon's complex responses to drought. High-fertility southern Amazon forests with shallow water tables show initial resilience but weaken with long droughts nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Postdoc fellowship at MIT at the intersection of AI and data science with life sciences: engineering.mit.edu/admissio…
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