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...

Consider getting more actively involved in the Tree Mortality Network? Register now for one of our online meetings starting tomorrow.

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍 Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️ 👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

Extreme Heatwave Causes Immediate, Widespread Mortality of Forest Canopy Foliage, Highlighting Modes of Forest Sensitivity to Extreme Heat 🔗 buff.ly/CfdgwRy

🔴Let's Talk About Planted Forests - Webinar 📽️Join online tomorrow to hear about the next theme ➡️ Douglas fir health: insights from Europe 🗓️28 November 2025⏰2.00 pm CET 🎟️ www.plantedforests.org/webinar-lets... #letstalkaboutplantedforests #forests #forets #webinar #ForestResearch #ForestScience

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network. Join one of our upcoming sessions: 🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC t1p.de/m3gty 🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC t1p.de/xaxsu 🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC t1p.de/c4icd Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀

deadtrees.earth — An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by @cmosig.bsky.social

Announcing 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 – an online seminar series all about ecological modelling & career insights, hosted by the @gfoesoc.bsky.social AKs Computational Ecology and YoMos 🦊 Find the topics and details as well as access to Zoom on our webpage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... Please share!

New OA Article: "Increasing tree size across Amazonia" rdcu.be/eJOz7 With a highlight @nature.com : "Trees of the Amazon are becoming even mightier - Forest giants are becoming bigger and more common than they once were" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger. What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6

Great to see this paper out!📰 Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬 @irnase.bsky.social

Sheng et al. call for greater survey efforts and broader conservation initiative to protect the 11 (ELEVEN!) felid species of the Tibetan Plateau. (Strong contender for the Correspondence, or indeed article of any kind, with the best figure we ever published) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us for an exciting ITMN Seminar: “Tiny leaks with deadly consequences” by Paulo Menezes July 24th at 3 pm (CEST). Register here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out! Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way. A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work. Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...

Fascinating study on ecosystem drought adjustments and why longterm studies really matter.

The forest space age needs eyes on the ground rdcu.be/enT5S @bzgeo.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social @tropicalforesters.bsky.social @cienciatropical.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @congobasinscience.bsky.social @groundtruth.app @erikaberenguer.bsky.social

Der Klimawandel wir die Wälder in der Schweiz stark betreffen - wieso scheint das Interesse bei Politik und Gesellschaft so gering? #Don'tLookUp www.szf-jfs.ch/de/artikel/w...

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