Què és una “embòlia” vegetal i per què són tan perilloses pels arbres🌳 mediterranis? En situacions de #sequera🌡️, quan falta aigua al sòl, es poden formar bombolles d’aire🫧 (“embòlies”) als conductes transportadors d’aigua💦 de les plantes, una conseqüència que pot ser fatal.

"The hidden variability of forests" 🌳🍃🌲 The Department of Ecology at Leuphana is sharing a post about our recent study on intraspecific trait variability along diversity gradients in forests ecology.web.leuphana.de/the-hidden-v...

¡Acabamos de publicar el último número! 📢 Incluimos el monográfico "Ecología del despoblamiento rural", coordinado por Francisco Lloret y Adrián Escudero. Os dejamos la editorial invitada en este enlace. Y no solo, en este número hay mucho más contenido... revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

New publication! Do leaf traits vary in time? 🌿🍃☘️ We sampled 6 traits of 11 species over 15 weeks and found that traits vary greatly, and every growth form followed their own pattern 🦄 Species rank remained somewhat same! @niittynen.bsky.social 🌱 @oikosjournal.bsky.social 🌱 doi.org/10.1002/oik.11849

We are happy to announce 36 great thematic sessions for our #NSO2026 #GfOe2026 joint NSO-GfÖ conference – bringing together diverse perspectives across the field of ecology. We look forward to be inspired! Explore the full line-up: vist.ly/4txjq @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Open position as research associate in our Vegetation Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation group @leuphana.bsky.social. Limited to 1 year, but an ideal chance to gain teaching experience and develop independent research 🍃🌳🗻🌱. Apply until March 26. Details: tinyurl.com/yc6dnr8p

🌍 The earth’s green is increasing and its centre is moving north-east. Vegetational shift to the north is even stronger in the southern summer – surprising new facet of #globalgreening 🌱 Published in PNAS 1/x

🌧 En la era moderna no ha habido una tormenta más monstruosa en España que la dana de Valencia de octubre de 2024. Un estudio reciente explica cómo se vio intensificada por el cambio climático Te contamos qué sucedió, paso a paso, desde el interior de la tormenta:

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Tras unas vacaciones de descanso y un inicio de año con mucho trabajo, volvemos a daros noticias. Hace un tiempo lanzamos una propuesta para incorporar nuevos Editores Asociados y... ¡Ya están dentro del equipo editorial! Enhorabuena a tod@s 🎉 revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

How much exercise do you actually need? go.nature.com/49Mi2ju

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴 Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team. Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx #Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

Peaks of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, central Spain ⛰️ I spent time back in my hometown during Christmas and found the motivation to make this map with some of my favourite peaks there

New paper by @castretis.bsky.social et al in @natcomms.nature.com - read more about it here: www.idiv.de/worlds-large...

Leuphana university (@leuphana.bsky.social) is featuring our work in the BEF-China experiment and explaining some of the recent results on their website www.leuphana.de/en/instituti...

The last chapter from PhD thesis by Juri Felix (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) is now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! The study explores the effects of tree species identity and spatial scale on tree diversity effects #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Leaf diversity in forests 🍃

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? 🧵

New online! Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments

"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 🌐🧪👇