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...

How tree and fungal diversity shape the forest’s strategies? 🍃🌳🍄 In this post we tell you a little bit more about some of our recent work in a tree diversity experiment ecology.web.leuphana.de/rooted-in-di...

Los bosques de los parques nacionales españoles están peor que nunca. El tiempo cada vez más seco y caluroso que afecta a España fruto del cambio climático, deteriora más a los árboles. Y esto está ocurriendo en la mayoría de los bosques de nuestro país. www.eldiario.es/sociedad/bos...

You can also check out my first research publication focusing on tree-tree interaction effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration: tinyurl.com/Christel-et-al

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Not true! 🐻 Live there

Preparing some mountains to illustrate how biodiversity changes along elevation gradients 🖍️

🌳 New findings 🌳 Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️ 🧪🌐🌏🍁 @natureecoevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/Bf5IK

I wanted to put a starter pack together with some of my favorite evolutionary ecologists 🌿🧬 Please let me know if you have any interest! go.bsky.app/5YBqyvM

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree species richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.24.625116v1

💚 Another science is possiible by #AEETSIBECOL2025 🔊 call for abstracts open until december 20th sibecol-aeet-meeting2025.org/Index/11/Cal... Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain 2-7 June 2025

I hope this starter pack helps bring our community together on this platform. If you identify as an ECR, work in community ecology, and would like to be added, please reply! 🌱 It's currently too land-centric, but I'd love to see folks from marine and freshwater systems join! 🌊 go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX

It seems that this journey is coming to an end! After many, many, many pages and countless hours working on this, I am quite happy to see my dissertation ready for submission🧾🖊️

Here a PhD student in ecology that just landed in Bluesky 🛬👋 I am a big fan of biodiversity science, plant ecology and trait-based approaches studying the intraspecific phenotypic variation of trees in response to diversity 🌳🍃 And I love data visualization and infographics 🎨🖍️📊