Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social. @loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

Organizer Thilo Hofmann @cemess.bsky.social, contributions from 30+ @univie.ac.at scientists, incl @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Stephan Krämer, @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ppjevac.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social, and @loutsi.bsky.social from our cluster.

Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...

Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too! Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment! Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

A 💥NEW STUDY💥 has found that warming depletes the Arctic soil’s nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions! ⛰️ The reason why? 🧵 ✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!

It was so exciting to speak in such a beautiful hall, and did the opportunity to talk about traits of tropical roots, and the @tropiroot.bsky.social initiative at the #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh this week!

Check out the poster by @daniarandi.bsky.social later today! Looking forward to learn more about halophyte microbiomes! #rhizosphere6

If you are at #rhizosphere6 and interested in fine root functional traits, go talk to @elsaelsam.bsky.social from @zalf.bsky.social. If you (like me - tearfully) miss out on this event, check out the paper in the thread below 😉

Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi! The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!

We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at [email protected]. Thanks

The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!

AmazonFACE está contratando pós doc. Vagas de: 1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese 2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento 3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico 4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos

Congratulations to Viktor Van de Velde from the UGhent and all the team to the publication of a chapter of his PhD thesis! We were investigating microbial soil P cycling rates in recovering forest after agricultural use in forests in the DRC, find out more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...

We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking. If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!

Happy Boxing Day to all cats who celebrate! 📦🐈‍⬛

How do soil microbes respond to climate change? Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!

Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active! Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!

#mycology folks... Ever wanted to programmatically search fungal names for synonyms on Mycobank? Notice that the R package for this has been broken for 7 years? I've got you covered: github.com/gzahn/mycoba... Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.

Many congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social for receiving the Environment and Climate Award 2024. Very much deserved, Lucia! #TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

Did you always want to know how tropical forest roots respond to N and P additions? Find out now!!! doi.org/10.1111/oik.... Congratulations to Laynara Lugli for leading this great effort and to all the team for their support (including washing huge amounts of roots!!!) 😎

🧪 🌾 #roots #rhizosphere

Check out our new preprint ‚Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions‘ by @loutsi.bsky.social, Alberto Canarini, and many more. ➡️2H-vapor-PLFA-SIP biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Piu blu!