Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought : • Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought • Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own 🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

Our first in-person KI-Recover team meeting in Sankt Oswald! 🌲✨ We were thrilled by the collaborative energy, fresh ideas, and strong alignment during the workshop. The field excursion was a highlight. Excited for what’s next!

The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves! A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project 🔗below @brodersenlab.bsky.social

The new #IUCN red list shows that 15% of European butterfly species are now threatened with extinction - and one is already extinct. I'll be sharing butterfly photos on my Instagram (bio_miky) to keep awareness alive 🦋 #conservation #butterflies #redlist

Although they seem to be going to sleep, temperate trees are very busy right now. Fine roots are growing, and inside the buds, next years leaves, stems, and flowers are being formed. That means that autumn weather determines some or all of next year's growth. Read about it at Our Trees.

@enricounigoe.bsky.social is hosting a mini conference on October 23rd with a variety of speakers in Göttingen! Please consider registering and joining for this cool opportunity to hear about some great science!

Great news! 🌱 Last week Christine Wallis and Robert Jackisch received funding for KI-Recover, supported by the German Environment Ministry. The project uses AI to boost sustainable forestry — from climate-resilient tree selection to smarter reforestation. 🌳🤖 #AI #ClimateAction #Forests

Happy Birthday to Stephen Hales, born on this day in 1677. He was a parish priest in Teddington, England, but found time to do important experiments on fluid flow in plants and animals. He is the founder of plant physiology, my discipline. Have a look at this story at Our Trees.

🌳 New Tansley Insight! What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔 I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

Are you at #gfoe2025 and curious about how sensitive Central European trees are to high temperatures? Come see my talk on Wednesday, September 3rd in Room 2.007 at 14:25!

Member of state parliament Pippa Schneider visiting our tower site Göttinger Wald. Great discussions about the projects FoResLab and DIVERSA, forest resilience and climate change, nature conservation and politics. @foreslab.bsky.social‬ @pippaschneider.bsky.social‬

*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪

Feeling grateful and happy to reach this milestone! 🎓 Thanks all for joining me on this day :) Huge thanks to my supervisors, collaborators, the amazing team at @enricounigoe.bsky.social & Plant Ecology dept 🙏🌳 Proud of what we achieved, excited for what’s next! 🚀

We all enjoy reading negative book reviews, but there is almost no justification for writing one. You can just choose not to.

More information: www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-einrich...

Ever been asked, "Can't we just leave the forest alone?"⁉️ Get ready to hear expert opinions and cutting-edge research results. Join us this Saturday, June 21st, at 7 PM in ZHG 101 for a panel discussion "Mensch und Wald - Zwischen Fakten und Gefühlen" at the Night of Science! See you there! #ndwgoe

🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out! Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way. A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work. Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

Driver appears to be hotter-drought, am presently putting the last year in longer-term context. But little/no rain from July '24 through June '25, atop some record heat. It's a story we've come to know too well from global forest mortality event observations, e.g. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Successfull week in Vienna @egu.eu presenting the latest results of our CRC @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social Curious to learn more about the latest development in novel sensor networks for environmental sensing? Join us for our international conference in September! @chriswernerlab.bsky.social

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone. @clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991 But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

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

Please RT: Interested in a #PhD in real-time #isotope measurements in #tree #xylem under #drought in the black forest?

Are you enthusiastic about #waterstableisotopes in forest trees? 🌲🌳💧 We offer a PhD position on ecohydrological feedbacks in forests under recurrent drought. Join our team in Freiburg: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de @hydrofreiburg.bsky.social

Want great summer plans? Look no further! The PSInet workshop is coming to Indiana University, to re-introduce the ecophys community to PSInet, a new open-access network database of plant water potential measurements. psinetrcn.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Reminder - Don't forget about our grants! We offer #grants for undergrads & graduate students doing research, going to symposia or workshops, and more, and the deadline for submission is coming up soon - Feb 15! Details can be found here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

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

Could you or an #innovative student you know use $1000 toward a 2025 conference? We can help! Please share and learn more! bit.ly/PPSITA #plantscience #soilscience #earthscience @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @ashs-hort.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @agu.org @aspbofficial.bsky.social

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Closing soon! Applications for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 close on 27 January. The unique meeting, for early career researchers in plant science, is FREE to attend. 4-7 August, Birmingham, UK Apply now! www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #npnextgen

🌳 Weekend hike in the Göttingen forest! We found some cool root grafts (beech 🌲 spruce), a stem graft (beech-beech), and a huge crown gall on ash! Fascinating trees! 🌿✨ @arboristblue.bsky.social #Forests #Nature #treebiology

Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...

I think being a good PI is mostly about helping folks get un-stuck. I really enjoy seeing mentees take off once they’re past a seemingly intractable problem. Had another chance at that this afternoon 🦝 Help all you can, all you can, and we’ll make it through the dumpster fire 2025 is sure to be.

Do you ever get confused about the difference between sap and resin? If so, and you were around me, I hope I didn't yell at you about it...here's a little video which clarifies the difference. youtu.be/idDWkljii0Q

Hi Bluesky! It's EnriCo. This week we celebrated Klara Mrak's successful defense @mrakklara.bsky.social Congratulations on your insightful work on tree functional traits driving nitrogen & water cycling in pure & mixed forests 🌲🌳

The Faculty of Biology and Psychology at the University of Göttingen offers a W3 Professorship in Plant Ecology and Biological Climate Impact Research. Application deadline is the 7th of February, 2025! Please re-share, international applications are encouraged! uni-goettingen.de/en/692570.html

Must read out in @science.org "Climate change extinctions" by @MarkCUrban (on X) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big take home: "extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. The highest-emission scenario would threaten approximately one-third of species, globally."

We have certainly been having great discussions about trees, forests, and climate here on the blue place. I have now launched my Substack newsletter, where we can have more in-depth discussions. There are free and paid subscriptions. I hope you will join us.

Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2024 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Frost is approaching! With @sharathpaligi.bsky.social to the rescue of our microtensiometers, installed at 30m height in European beech and ash trees. Luckily, fieldwork never ends! @bioclimatology.bsky.social #PlantScience #forestecol

I will give a #TED TALK on Saturday, 30.11. 5 p.m. CET on #climatechange impacts on #forest and our #B2WALD and #ECOSENSE projects. Join me if you are interested. Live-stream: www.youtube.com/live/aECXaFy...

A Theoretical Framework to Quantify Ecosystem Pressure-Volume Relationships onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thrilled to see @joguillemot.bsky.social, @martin-stpaul.bsky.social fantastic commentary on our work exploring how juvenile tree growth, water status and drought tolerance, are affected by species interaction, water stress and nitrogen addition💧🌳 doi.org/10.1093/tree... @enricounigoe.bsky.social

Did an interview for this news article in PNAS on forest multifunctionality www.pnas.org/post/journal...

If you are interested in our #ECOSENSE project developing a smart autonomous #sensing network in #forests, hapy to share the project description here🧪 doi.org/10.3897/rio....

Exciting first post on BlueSky: We have a PhD opportunity with Anna Gardner & me @BIFoRUoB in mangroves ecophysiology! 🌱 🌡️ Potential funding through @CENTA_NERC - see here: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...