This meta-analysis finds that planting nitrogen-fixing species increases soil carbon compared with non-nitrogen-fixing species, potentially offering a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change for forestation, agriculture and land regeneration 🧪🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yes, many tropical trees have annual rings! Great to contribute to this global synthesis led by @pieterzuidema.bsky.social, indicating stronger droughts w climate change may shift observed more resilient responses toward more widespread decreases in productivity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌾🌐

This paper is getting attention for suggesting ecosystem restoration won't help with mitigation, but restoration is still *critical* for adaptation. Restoring coastal wetlands helps reduce risks from sea level rise and hurricanes, restoring urban forests helps reduce risks from extreme heat, etc...

A very comprehensive analysis of lagged precipitation effects in terrestrial ecosystems. Tree rings, flux, grassland ANPP, satellite remote sensing, and DGVMs. Climate memory is an important driver of global plant productivity.

"if we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Also in GCB: a meta-analysis of precipitation pulse-responses in C and water cycling (doi.org/10.1111/gcb....). *Huge* effort by @ecophysism.bsky.social. We characterized both the size of response to pulses, and also the shape (do we even see a hump?). Future C-water coupling shifts are possible 🌐🌍

Cool results from the #funpotential project presented by @mikkopel.bsky.social today at the biodivclim final event @biodiversa.eu. They help understand how and why tree diversity can help to adapt forest to climate change.

@umr-ecosols.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social

Interesting research results from #MixForChange @biodiversa.eu project by @joguillemot.bsky.social et al: drougth sensitive tree species do better among drought tolerants. #BioDivClim #FunPotential

Inkscape plugin to rescale figures without distorting the text, and other useful features! github.com/burghoff/Sci...

The objective of the scanners developed by the team “Emma Belaud, Christophe Jourdan, Mickael Hedde and Philippe Gallet ” is monitoring root dynamics and soil macrofauna. Paper describing the scanner methodology : link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The “Brazil team” Agnès Robin, Daniel Poultney, Joannès Guillemot and Guerric Le Maire @umr-ecosols.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social installed buried scanners (paper link below) in the MataDIV Experiment (TreeDivNet) with the teams from Floragro and the Itatinga experimental station (ESALQ-USP).

#oneforjournalclub Really nice example of combining TLS and tree ring records to characterise how crown architecture and canopy structure shape long-term tree growth strategies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congresso Plantações Florestais 2025, Piracicaba, Brazil, SP organized by IPEF from May 13 to 15. The team @umr-ecosols.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social was present with Brazilian partners to participate in discussions on research concerning forest plantations and their implementation with companies.

Mechanisation of forest operations drives long-term changes in plant communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

My "the shot" from the Matador, TX tornado

If you are interested how long it takes for forest soil C to recover from clear-cut, check our new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @luke.fi @nibiolandskap.bsky.social @holisoils.bsky.social

Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts (Viviane de Araújo Brito Fernandes, Fernanda Santos Farnese, Brenner Ryan Arantes, et. al.) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026 @ASPB #PlantScience

Natural disturbances are often invoked as an argument against creating new forest reserves. But are reserves more affected by disturbances than managed forests? For C Europe the answer is no, in fact reserves have lower disturbance rate & severity than managed forests! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵 I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just out: A geometric approach to beta diversity esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Led by the brilliant @clsong.bsky.social & Muyang Lu.

French designed bicycle that uses supercapacitors instead of batteries to power the bike, only paper, aluminium and carbon used in the capacitor so it's easy to recycle. Pretty neat www.euronews.com/next/2023/12... m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NGa...

Habitat connectivity is important for bats too! Many bat species like to fly along forest edges, inside forests or just near some kind of safe cover. Open expanses can fragment habitat for these species. #AirspaceIsBatSpace

“Fragmented landscapes consistently have both lower α diversity and lower γ diversity [but higher β diversity] Our findings refute claims that habitat fragmentation can increase biodiversity at landscape scales” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in diamond open-access @peercomjournal.bsky.social Reducing mineral fertilizer use in mountain grasslands could improve the ability of their soil to maintain their multifunctionality during drought. Last chapter of my PhD 5 y latter. #NewPI never give up publish your science! #Soilscience

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

Botanists, ecologists and satellites have mapped Earth's tropical forest canopies.🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations @jeaggu.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social + our colleagues w/ GEM ForestPlots.net RAINFOR MONAFOR + more! @researchleeds.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social

Yet another study finds that diverse forests store far more carbon than monoculture plantations. Previous research in the tropics showed it could be 40x more. Natural forests also help stabilise the climate in other, equally vital ways. WHEN will this penny drop? scienceblog.com/tree-diversi...

A century of rising CO₂ has increased photosynthesis of mature trees in tropical forests. This is our conclusion in study led by Sophie Zwartsenberg in @newphyt.bsky.social. We did novel isotope analyses in tree rings from Australia, Thailand & Bangladesh. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient - Camila Medeiros, Santiago Trueba, Chris Henry, Leila Fletcher, Jim Lutz, Rodrigo Méndez Alonzo, Nathan Kraft, Lawren Sack - Journal of Ecology t.co/F6VWVLJ6xl @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social

🌳New study exploring the importance of tree diversity for C cycling and climate change mitigation in tropical forests. From a great team, brilliantly led by @mixedforests.bsky.social. Results are nicely discussed in the press release: uni-freiburg.de/en/tree-dive...

Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports

Satellite Observations Reveal a Positive Relationship Between Trait‐Based Diversity and Drought Response in Temperate Forests 📄 https://buff.ly/4gBgsRr @helfenstein.earth

A new study from Colorado State University reveals that tree ranges in the interior US West are contracting due to climate change, with limited expansion into cooler, wetter areas. The study highlights the potential need for human-assisted tree migration. phys.org/news/2025-02...

▶️ Post on the blog of @journalofecology.bsky.social about our recently published paper about the tree packing effect on BEF-relationships in forests 🌲🌳 jecologyblog.com/2025/02/11/d... @joguillemot.bsky.social @riottelambert.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

This is what can be achieved. Landscape-scale habitat restoration in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳 #Rewilding

Hi bluesky! I will only share news on my research here. My main topics are microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. My current research digs into the functioning of root-soil system in deep horizons of agroforestry systems and the global life history strategies of soil bacteria. Recent publications 👇

Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Have a species list and want to get a phylogeny for them? Try this R package: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Feedbacks are welcome.

Previous research showed tree growth to be temporally decoupled from GPP, but what about biomass? Here we find that the fraction of GPP allocated each year to woody biomass widely varies across sites and years, notably as a function of climate. Shout out to Steve Kannenberg for leading this work!

📣 Our paper on soil carbon response to tree planting is out in J. of Env. Management: 🌲 Temperate grassland conversion to conifer forest destabilises mineral soil carbon stocks Open access ➡️ tinyurl.com/3krerb92 A short thread ⤵️