Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means? With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Very proud of Nicola!! Or better, Dr. Pavanetto!! It has been a beautiful journey together with lots of fantastic moments! Good luck for your future Nicola!

It is always a great pleasure @physaliacourses.bsky.social! Thank to you and to all the participants!

ITV-net: leveraging intraspecific trait variability to bridge vegetation science and trait-based research in Italy ved.arphahub.com/articles.php... The ‘manifesto’ of our initiative is out in @vegecoldiv.bsky.social! If you have itv-level data and you want to share them read the paper and dm me!

Great collaborative effort from the Italian community! Freely available empirical data for SLA and LA measured at the individual level for hundreds of species from all across the Italian peninsula! Data are also georeferenced and coupled with plot level info (e.g. cover)! 🌐

📢 ITV-net: the first Italian database on #PlantFunctionalTraits with #IntraspecificTraitVariability 🌱 ITV-net includes over 8,500 leaf trait records (LA/SLA) for 709 plant species across 8 Italian habitats, from coastal dunes to alpine grasslands. #EnviXLab www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There are only 3 seats left for our upcoming online course: Functional Trait Space Analyses in R with @gpuglielli.bsky.social Dates: 8–10 September - Online (14:00–18:00 Berlin time) www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

New data paper out! Insect feeding guilds information (> 4000 insect species!) in relation to host plants for Northern Hemisphere woody species (>600 species!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New paper out! We explored the association between mycorrhizal functionality and tolerance to shade, drought, cold and waterlogging stress in >600 woody plants from across the Northern Hemisphere! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Registrations are open for the 2nd edition of the online course “Functional Trait Space Analyses in R” with @gpuglielli.bsky.social For more information: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Time to leave beautiful Seville! Finally going back to my country to start a new position as assistant professor at the University of Trieste! Sad, though, to leave this fantastic group of people that always made me feel home! Thanks a lot! Exciting times ahead!

☘ The first Editorial of the open-access society-owned Vegetation Ecology and Diversity (VED) journal is finally out! We introduce the Editorial Board, Social Media Team, Topical Collections, and initiatives for young researchers. ved.arphahub.com/article/1466... @vegecoldiv.bsky.social

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱 How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐 Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits