Our new study highlights how competition-driven trait plasticity and growth suppression jointly obscure the link between plant functional traits and seedling growth. Huge thanks to @cpcarmona.bsky.social and Guochun Shen for their invaluable guidance and collaboration! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70259

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...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity. Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables. With @e-beccari.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

Thank you to my excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social and my wonderful supervisors, @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social & Chris Venditti. I am very grateful to have had the chance to learn from you all.

Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!! The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social

Hot off the press 🔥 New Ecological Monographs paper shows why, when and how to include intraspecific trait variability to enhance functional diversity research. Huge shout out to Facundo Palacio for his vision and leadership. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... #traits #functionaldiversity 📏🌐

You would not judge a hammer by how well it drives a screw; likewise, do not blame a spread metric for failing a richness test. Functional diversity is multifaceted and needs a toolbox, not a universal index.

🌍 Excited to be part of the Global Ecology Starter Pack - a great way to discover and connect with people interested in ecology at large scales! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj 👉 If you’d like to join the next pack (Vol_3 is in the works), DM @global-ecology.bsky.social. 🌐

Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity? Find out here @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

New paper out on how human activities impact taxonomic vs functional biodiversity, led by @kerrys189.bsky.social

🚨 Behold a second impressive paper from @kerrys189.bsky.social to celebrate her just-finished PhD. A rising 🌟! This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management. 🧪🌐🪶

“Abatement of ‘habitat loss and degradation’ made greatest contribution to avoided species extinctions and functional diversity loss .. If human activity affects biodiversity as today, then in next 100 years, lose >3x number of bird species as lost since 1500.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper! "Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.

For sauropsids lovers: Two fresh papers map trait spaces of birds, turtles and crocodiles to reveal what disappears when species go extinct www.nature.com/articles/s41... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🌐🪶 🧮➕📏 #trait, #traits, #FunctionalTraits

Back home after two weeks in Spain sampling and attending @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social conference. Neighbours haven’t moved any closer

@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social @marsobral.bsky.social & @ibartomeus.bsky.social on the (huge, urgent) need to change publishing pathways While public administrations (regional, national, European) decide to stop paying subscriptions and create their own portals, check journal options below

Impressive new work from Javier Puy! 🤩 #sibecol @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

Interesting keynote talks by @cpcarmona.bsky.social and Andrea Sanchez Messeguer opening the second day of te @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

Me encontré con el concepto de diversidad oscura en el último congreso de la IAVS de la mano de @cpcarmona.bsky.social. Con este hilo y este estudio lo entiendo mejor. ¡¡Muy interesante también para comunidades animales!!

Up now at #SIBECOLAEET2025 for the first plenary talk of the day Carlos Pérez Carmona is talking about plant traits, why they are useful for predicting ecosystem function under global change, and how you can do this.

Excited to share our new open-access review led by Francesco de Bello in Ecological Monographs! With a fantastic international team, we identify key challenges (“Raunkiæran shortfalls”) in trait-based ecology. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FunctionalTraits 🌐

Un nuevo estudio global (Pärtel et al. 2025) —en el que he tenido la fortuna de participar— analiza por qué muchos lugares tienen menos especies de plantas de las esperables. Spoiler: la culpa no es solo del lugar, sino de lo que pasa alrededor. 🧵1/11 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833

🚨PhD position in Functional Plant Diversity and Community Assembly available in Prof. Vicky Temperton's group (@7toucans.bsky.social) at the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany). Deadline: May 4, 2025 🧪🌍 www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Our workgroup members Juni and Blanca had a successful expedition to Ghana where they sampled plant above- and below-ground traits for #TraitDivNet macroecology.ut.ee/en/traitdivn...

Happy to have contributed to this paper just out @nature.com. #Darkdiversity is highly relevant in the context of #ecologicalrestoration and #biodiversitymonitoring www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Biodiversity has many facets - some might be less apparent, such as the absence of species in locations that would normally be suitable for them. Important reminder that human activity impacts the biosphere in many ways! Happy to have contributed to the 2nd northernmost dataset in this study :) 🌐🌿☘️

Very excited to see our paper just published in @nature.com (open access)! Massive collaborative effort led by Meelis Pärtel @macroecologyut.bsky.social and team #darkdiversity – is crucial in the context of #ecologicalrestoration and habitat conservation 🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New @nature.com study: the negative effect of human activities on wildlife biodiversity may be notable hundreds of kilometres away ⚠️ For the study, @ufz.de's and iDiv's @lottekorell.bsky.social recorded plant species and so-called dark diversity in the Lüneburg Heath. www.idiv.de/nature-study...

News article about our recent paper in Nature on global impoverishment of natural vegetation by Conny Sattler (cosattler.com) and myself in @theconversation.com @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/invisible-lo... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏅 Congratulations to Jens-Christian Svenning from Aarhus University, Denmark, on receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Medal! 🎉 His achievement will be celebrated at the 68th IAVS Symposium in 2026 in Gijón, Spain. Join us at the upcoming IAVS symposia to hear the awardees' inspiring lectures!

Extremely excited to be part of this collaborative effort led by Meelis Pärtel and @macroecologyut.bsky.social

The first paper from #darkdivnet is out now! Huge thank you to all our >200 co-authors who helped to reveal dark diversity in different parts of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New global study of dark diversity by #DarkDivNet led by Meelis Pärtel, where Aleš, Maruška, and Eva are co-authors with the dataset from Novohradské Hory, is now out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

Excited to announce our new paper, “Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity,” out today in Nature – and it’s open access! Huge global collaboration led by Meelis Pärtel 🌐@macroecologyut.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy 8M, everyone!!💜 If you are a mom in science or want to be, you might find helpful this video we made for you!🤰 communities.springernature.com/posts/intern... @ana-sanz-aguilar.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social

I just canceled my subscriptions to Amazon Prime & Peacock. I had already gotten rid of the Washington Post. I don’t need all that crap with monthly bills.

Here, broken down into a thread, is a copy of my last post on X. 1. This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it.

🚨Postdoc Opportunity in Human Macroecology🌍Join @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuni.bsky.social to study human #macroecology from a functional #trait perspective, in #archaeology + #ecology team led by @felixthehauskat.bsky.social👣 🗓️Deadline: Jan 31, 2025 👉Apply: international.au.dk/about/profil...

Just deactivated my X account and it feels amazing.

I wrote a thing about using the gratia 📦 for #RStats, which makes working with #GAMs and the mgcv 📦 a little easier and, dare I say, prettier #mgcvchat #ggplot2

At least it starts getting better from today…

Kerry Smith (Kerry Stewart) is ridiculously good! 🔥

Really good talk from Kerry Smith at #BES2024: functional diversity likely more important than species diversity, so she proposes an orthogonal "functional uniqueness" axis for the #RedList (using a suite of morphological traits for birds and looking for outliers in trait space).

In a recent paper @Nature, Gross et al. 2024 found an expected increase in functional diversity along an aridity gradient. In our preprint, we offer a different perspective where more nuanced differences are found @cpcarmona.bsky.social @e-beccari.bsky.social #Macroecology #FunctionalTraits

A skewed picture of functional diversity in global drylands https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627500v1

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