"Understanding leaf variability within tree species" 🍃🌿🍂 I wrote a "behind the paper" post talking about our recent paper in @natcomms.nature.com communities.springernature.com/posts/unders...

Very happy to see my first PhD chapter being published 🤍 Take a look if you are interested in how tree species richness and mycorrhizal associations affect soil multifunctionality on a small scale 🌳🌳

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands, Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... Want to know more about it? 🧵

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/CzKQ50XsRs5 For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/ERge50XsRs6.

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/...

New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

Check our new study about the importance of dissimilarity in water-use strategies for tree growth during drought years in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🌳💧Thanks @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social for leading this study so brilliantly

Scenes from the @treedi.bsky.social conference 🌳 Participants joined Prof. Christian Wirth for a guided tour through the ARBOFun arboretum - exploring how long-term measurements help us understand forest dynamics and tree functioning #treeDi #ForestEcology #PlantScience

#TansleyInsight: The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant #FunctionalDiversity Carlos Carmona & Eleonora Beccari 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

The view from my new office suggests this will be a great place to study plant ecology! 🌿 Excited to have started my new postdoc position in the group of functional ecology at @mbgcsic.bsky.social @csic.es

Neue Ausgabe des Konfuzius Magazins mit einem Artikel über TreeDì: "Wald und Waldforschung in China" ab Seite 8. www.konfuziusinstitut-leipzig.de/konfuzius-in...

Inspiring joint conference of @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social, with 20 presentations by doctoral researchers, 7 workshops, 5 international keynote speakers, 1 excursion and 1 guided city tour.

Happy this paper is published! Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out! We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

Just collected the data from our loggers in the cliffs of la Pedriza for MIREN Rocks! Excited to finally have our cliff vegetation and microclimate data together

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥 Fires continue to rage in Portugal and Spain today, with thick plumes of smoke and pyrocumulonimbus drifting northward.

¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto? No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13

What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org

🚨 New paper led by @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social‬ 🍃 We found that the communities of foliar endophytic fungi are driven by leaf traits and intraindividual trait variability 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @treedi.bsky.social @geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social (1/7)

🚨 Doctoral Student Paper Alert 🚨 🌿🍄 What shapes fungal endophyte diversity inside tree leaves? We found that leaf traits, both their average values and variation within a single tree, strongly influence foliar fungal endophyte communities. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland vist.ly/3y5kj #EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning. 🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs 👇 A short thread

It was so great to finally meet you in person, Pablo! Thank you for joining our session 🌿

Last week I talked about trait variation at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social . I enjoyed presenting in a room full of friends and researchers I admire. Thanks to @cmoeller.bsky.social and Martí March-Salas for putting intraspecific and intraindividual variation into the spotlight of this conference

‪Tomorrow at 11:00 I'll be talking about trait variation in tree diversity experiments at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social meeting (TSD-4). The session will have a strong component of intraspecific and intraindividual variation, so don't miss it if you're a fan of this thrilling topic

This year, #intraindividual variability will rock it at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social!! From a keynote talk by @cmhmaliani.bsky.social to a specific session Mon-Tue! I will talk about intraindividual trait #coordination in #tundra #clonal #shrubs on Tue morning. So much looking forward to it!🌱🌿🌲

A new paper from Indra deCastro-Arrazola shows that aridity filters dung beetles both in space & time along the Sahara’s edge. Their traits & lineages shift continuously in a similar way in a transect towards the desert and between the wet and dry seasons. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social #NICED 🌐🧪👇

Trait-based #ecology has flourished, but key limitations still hinder progress. We identify 8 major shortfalls, from trait definitions 📏 to ecosystem scaling 🔄🌐, and propose paths forward for a more robust and integrative trait-based framework. 📄🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... @esajournals.bsky.social

🌿A new study in @newphyt.bsky.social finds that 27% of naturalised plants are threatened in their native range, revealing a conservation dilemma. As species distributions shift, conservation policies may need to evolve. #iDivResearch www.idiv.de/should-we-pr...

Hoy 15 de mayo lxs chulapxs se echan a las calles de Madrid para celebrar San Isidro, pero ¿Sabías que la flora de Madrid es mucho más que los claveles que las buenas gentes de Madrid se ponen en sus trajes? Hoy reciclo un hilo antiguo para contar un poco más sobre la flora urbana madrileña (1/7)

My PhD dissertation is now available here: dx.doi.org/10.25673/118... In the thesis, I showed that trait expression, intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability depend on forest composition and species diversity. Further, they are components that matter for measuring functional diversity

🚩Throwing a birthday party for a five-year old – and what that tells us about root functioning ▶️ 1url.cz/3JzAd Root Economics Space was born! 🎉 #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #root #functional #ecology #concept #spectrum #strategy #plant

-¿Es tan dañina la pesca deportiva en ríos? -Si hubiera una población abundante probablemente sería sostenible, pero es un 95% más baja que hace 100 años, por eso no se debería pescar ningún salmón, hacerlo es condenarlo a la extinción, un punto en el que igual ya está

I just finished a new illustration of the Teide at sunset

I just finished a new illustration of the Teide at sunset

Despite the amount of rain in the last weeks, most of our loggers in la Pedriza are still in place and enjoying the views from our astonishing field sites. We keep measuring the temperature in the cliffs to contribute to MIREN rocks (www.mountaininvasions.org/miren-rocks)

🌴🌳 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....

Gent, avui és EL DIA 🥁🥁🥁 Arriba el Dia Mundial dels Boscos ✨ I amb molta emoció us presentem... La nostra guia d'identificació dels roures autòctons més comuns 🌳💚 Les claus que fem servir per distingir les 8⃣ espècies són fulles, glans, forma de la capçada (a l'hivern) i escorça 🪄📚

Last week was an outstanding one for us: Lina submitted her PhD thesis and Pablo @castretis.bsky.social defended his thesis excellently. This was the first PhD defence in our beautifully renovated lecture hall in the Botanical Garden. Congratulations to you both! You did a fantastic job! 🥳🎉🥂

It seems like there is a new Dr. in the room! 👨‍🎓👨‍💻 Congratulations Dr. @castretis.bsky.social Time to celebrate 🍻

This has definitely been an adventure! 🥾 On Friday, after some years working on my PhD, I defended my thesis. And having the chance to give this step surrounded by colleagues, friends and family has been something “unbeleafable” 🍃

A study in Nature finds that, since 2000, glaciers have lost between 2% and 39% of their ice regionally and about 5% globally. https://go.nature.com/3Qz4Tj7 🧪

In our recent paper, Anvar Sanaei shows that root traits of 'absorptive fine roots' relate to tree growth! In fact, they are better predictors than traits of 'transport fine roots'. www.nature.com/articles/s42... But there is more to it... 🧵

Check the first comprehensive assessment of biodiversity knowledge shortfalls at contimental level in today's issue of @science.org, led by Luis Pertierra. We map data coverage of the species, ecology and evolution of terrestrial Antarctic biota jhortal.com/shortfalls-k... 🌐🧪 @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Enhorabuena al #biodiverso M.March por el editorial publicado en Basic and Applied Ecology sobre investigación y conservación de flora de acantilados "Cliff ecosystems: A critical yet uncharted frontier for research and conservation" @ca-naturalist.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...