Reflections from iDiv researchers:

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

@lisethouvenot.bsky.social @remoryser.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social @srivastavalab.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social @kratina.bsky.social @econetlab.bsky.social

Die Forschungsgruppe Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie (@eisenhauerlab.bsky.social) am @idiv-research.bsky.social gehört zu den zehn Gewinnerteams des Preises Bestes Forschungsumfeld 2024. 🎉🥳 Mehr dazu hier: www.idiv.de/de/idiv-fors... @jungeakademie.bsky.social @volkswagenstiftung.de

🌱 On #BiodiversityDay, #iDiv researchers reflect on biodiversity — and now we are asking you. What makes biodiversity fascinating?

Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress 📄 buff.ly/rzl7iTM @remybeugnon.bsky.social @msoil.bsky.social @stpdms.bsky.social @lisethouvenot.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our new study published in JoVE! We explore how plant history and soil history influence the functioning of grassland ecosystems. Have a look! app.jove.com/v/67496/jena...

📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣 We are delighted to share our latest piece 🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dear #nematode community, Does anyone currently have nematodes in culture and would be willing to share or sell some? We are planning different experiments and are also happy to collaborate and share more details.

📣GSBI Speaks is back tomorrow! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱 Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET Register 👇 https://buff.ly/4h4Vuf4

Congratulations to our engaged colleagues. Very well deserved!!!!

So important! Thank you so much! We all know it is not easy! @lisethouvenot.bsky.social

Congratulations to our team Translating Soil Biodiversity for winning the University of Leipzig's Transfer Prize! 🏆🎓 Their work brings soil biodiversity research to young minds by creating and translating engaging articles for Frontiers for Young Minds—a platform where kids review science! 🌱🦠

Wow, so nice to see this work out, led by Chris Sweeney! he shows, in a massive experiment, that plant traits and phylogenetic relatedness are poor predictors of plant–soil feedbacks. In @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

@drpeterdietrich.bsky.social whenever you and we have a free slot, it would be great if you can present this in our seminar!

Third and final week of practicum with @unileipzig.bsky.social students. Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵 /w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

Good evening Bluesky! This is the official account for Soil BON Global. We are a global soil monitoring project in it's 4th year looking to grow the community of researchers across the globe to share their sampling, publications, & training experiences from the project. Stay tuned!

We are looking for more collaborators who want to run a BugNet site in their region. If you are interested, join our online info event. Please re-skeet, and help us to reach community ecologists, and those interested in plant- herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions around the world! 👇

📢JOB❗❗❗ The Research Training Group on the Economics of Connected Natural Commons: Atmosphere and Biodiversity (ECO-N), funded by the DFG is looking for a synthesis postdoc at Leipzig University. Come and work with us in a great team: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...

‼️Recently published in @funecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... We developed a conceptual framework for linking effect traits of #soil #fauna to the transformation of #SOM (including a section on #POM #MAOM😀) with @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social et al

This was a great collaborative project, including @joanabergmann.bsky.social, @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social, @a-h-b.bsky.social and many other great co-authors who are not (yet) on BlueSky!

Thank you to all our hard-working reviewers, staff, and authors who have made 2024 a wonderful year at Soil Organisms ✨🪱 We look forward to seeing you all in 2025!! ✨⏳✨ @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @sgn.one

With contribution of our microclimate guy @remybeugnon.bsky.social

NEW RESEARCH Long-Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees 📄 https://buff.ly/41r4NAO #HarvardForest #carbon #roots

Diana Wall was a mentor to many early-career researchers. Her work ethic & big thinking influenced many. Read more & learn about the NEW #TheWallReview @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @antoncollembola.bsky.social @s0il0rgmatters.bsky.social @thegsbi.bsky.social soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

Soil is made from minerals, organic matter, air, water - and living organisms. Soil is teeming with life, and it supports life. We couldn't live without it! But we are losing soil faster than it’s being formed. Stand up for soil this #WorldSoilDay 👇 soilassociation.co/3mp90Rb

The latest issue of Soil Organisms is out! Read it here: soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO...

🌳 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

Ein tolles Team und Studenten mit oft ungewöhnlichen Experimenten erwarten Euch!

Welcome to the official Soil Organisms journal Bluesky account! So happy to be here. 🪱🌱🍄 📢 Check out the latest issue of Soil Organisms published TODAY!!! soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO

Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds. Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini. Thread 1/2 rdcu.be/d1Tyg

we perform a global meta-analysis of 13,209 global change factors in experimental observations across the world’s land ecosystems to quantify plant (biomass and diversity) and soil biota (biomass, diversity, and abundances) responses to GCFs in different biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very important message: among other negative effects, tree planting in the North can increase warming by reducing albedo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello world! Looking forward to shed some light into belowground processes!