ITMN Seminar #32 with Dr. Paulo Bernardino June 16, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Uncovering shifts in dryland vegetation dynamics using satellites Register here: ethz.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

WSU is seeking a Technical Coordinator to help run the iconic EucFACE site. Work with leading researchers on climate & environmental science, supporting world-class outdoor facilities. Unique technical leadership role with real-world impact. Apply 👉 au.smrtr.io/hq_X Closes 14 June 2026

Am Pfingstwochenende lässt das sonnig-heiße Wetter die Waldbrandgefahr steigen. Ab Samstag wird vor allem im Süden und ab Sonntag im Osten zunehmend Warnstufe 4 (hoch) erreicht! Häufige Auslöser eines Waldbrands sind weggeworfene Zigarettenkippen. Zum Waldbrandgefahrenindex: www.dwd.de/waldbrand

Hi #dendrometer community! 🌳 The #GlobalDendrometerNetwork website is live: globaldendro.org 📣Join our meeting on 29 May, 10:00 CEST to discuss the global metadata call, website & updates. 📧No invite but want to attend? ☎️Get in touch! @globaldendro.bsky.social #forestmonitoring

In unserem Bodenfeuchteviewer wurde der Bereich zur klimatischen Wasserbilanz erweitert: Hier sind nun neben den letzten Jahreszeiten auch die einzelnen Monate, aktuelles Jahr und Vorjahr, aktuelle und vorjährige Vegetationsperiode zu finden: www.dwd.de/bodenfeuchte....

Tree Mortality Seminar tomorrow Tuesday 12th May with Kimberly Novick & Jessica Guo presenting The PSInet Database of plant water potential timeseries Register here: tu-dresden.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Despite leaf and air temperature often being highly correlated, their differences can reveal subtle details about plant status and the surface energy balance. Awesome review paper on this topic led by Xu Lian and Jianing Fang that was great to contribute to: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Continuous plant water potential: best practices and key challenges Restrepo-Acevedo et al. @christina-hn.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/B2K3H7...

Witnessing the effects of climate📈 change in Spanish forests... 🌳 In this case, the phenology of leaf budbreak 🍃in beech trees has occurred at least 15–20 days earlier than the data series we have from the last 10 year...🧵 🌍peripherical beech forests in Mediterranean mountains 📸RSanchezdeDios

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Five more days to apply! PhD position in our long-term Arctic project based at Leibniz University Hannover with fieldwork in Abisko. Focus: berries, functional traits, climate change & future food systems (with a microclimate angle). Please share: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8...

Interested in tree growth dynamics? Want to learn about dendrometers? Check out this new and promising global network!

Euer Blick auf blühende Apfelbäume kann Forschung verändern!🌸 🍎 Ladet die #FloraIncognita-App, aktiviert „PhänoNetz“ und meldet eure Beobachtungen zu Pflanzenphasen – so wird das DWD-Netz dichter und Vorhersagen genauer. Mehr Infos: 🔗 www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pre…

PhD opportunity- fully funded with stipend, fees and project costs covered. Explore the role of phosphite in treating kauri dieback disease. Applications due 8th May. Please spread the word! newzealandecology.org/phd-explorin...

Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪 The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦 @newphyt.bsky.social

🌍 The Global Dendrometer Network is coming to EGU! Join our splinter meeting: 🗓️ May 5 | ⏰ 16:15–18:00 📍 Room 2.61 (SPM40) ✨ Network launch 🌱 Talks 🤝 Meet dendro people from around the world 👉 Sign up: forms.gle/kyAUzFgqW4Mk... (+ dinner after!) All welcome—spread the word! #EGU26 #Dendrometers

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

Increasing risks of post-experimental ecology Mentally filling this under "papers I wish I'd written" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting field season ahead! Dendrometers installed in two mixed montane forests in the Bavarian alps. Everything ready to follow growth and water dynamics in contrasting tree species.

Exciting research environment in a great team and a lovely working space

ITMN Seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu April 14, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Rising tree mortality across Australian forests Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper out in Plant Physiology by Franklin Alongi: Drought-induced delays in stem hydraulic development shape gas exchange and growth recovery in Douglas fir academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

These changes to the USFS, the loss of the regional offices and excellent long-term scientific research, will be devastating. I hope it can be stopped.

We relaunch our seminar series! Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the ‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’ 24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

Upcoming Seminar of the International Tree Mortality Network with Jordi Martinez-Vilalta @treemortality.bsky.social

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Summer School "Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration" 16–21 August 2026; Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland Deadline: 30 April 2026 Applications can be submitted to: [email protected] swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/veranstal...

Ecophysiology for climate-smart forest management #TansleyReview by Gessler et al. @wslresearch.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social @josegruenzweig.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Manuscript rejected at a top-tier journal after an impressively minimalist review process. 🧐 Curious if others have received similarly “concise” rejection letters - and how you handled it?

Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

Carbon uptake, storage, and allocation patterns contribute to blurring of annual 14C signals in tree rings 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by Hessl et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Here's how the records stacked up during the recent heatwave over central and southern Australia. All-month maximum temperature records at individual stations with 25+ year histories are highlighted.

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reversibility of Interannual Tree Growth Variability in Southern Boreal Forest 🔗 buff.ly/mcdoyhS

environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week: Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales, 45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria ‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C. A HELL

PostDoc position in #dendrochronology at U of Giessen (Germany) to work on medieval climate and societal changes in the Caucasus. Dream position: a great international team to work with, super research topic and amazing field sites. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs

#oneforjournalclub #mustread

We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

[SAVE THE DATE] 🌍 🌳 for the FORESTT International Conference «FORESTs and global environmental changes: social-ecological systems in Transition», will take place from October 5 to 7, 2027 in Metz, France . 📰 forestt-international-conference.colloque.inrae.fr/stay-informed

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

For once, some good news about the Amazon tropical forest 🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳 🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨 We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more. Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Interested in new approches to trace #forest 🌲🌳🧪responses to #climate_change? More on #ECOSENS and ##B2WALD here in my #TED TALK „ted talk christiane share.google/PqjmjMXk4uza...