Just before the Xmas break🎉 In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

🌳Interested in doing a PhD within the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de?🌲 We are hiring a doctoral researcher for the project "Stand Density Management for #Forest Adaptation to #Drought“ Application link: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... Website: uni-freiburg.de/futureforest...

🗞️New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social🗞️ 🌳Different tree water use strategies enhance #forest resistant to drought🌲 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Amazing 2nd PhD chapter Lena👏 @idiv-research.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

📢Save the date! 🌲International Boreal Forest Research Association 2026 Conference🌳 🗓️24-27 Aug 2026; 📍Quebec City, Canada ⚡️Call for abstracts is scheduled to open on November 15, 2026 ➡️ www.ibfra2026.org #ForestScience #ForestResearch #BorealForests #WeCantLiveWithoutForests

🎉 Great news 🎉 Our paper "Forest dieback in drinking water protection areas – a hidden threat to water quality" was awarded the Helmut-Lieth-Award for Environmental Sciences!!! Thank you to the funders @carowinter.bsky.social and our team!!! @uni-freiburg.de & #FutureForests Excellencecluster

🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️ 🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲 Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new #TreeDivNet paper led by Hernán Serrano-León is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! Using data from 9 forest diversity experiments across Europe, we showed that tree diversity effects on tree growth responses strengthened during consecutive drought years dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🗞️ Here is a a nice newspaper article by Mongabay on #forest #restoration potential and where and how restoration should be carried out. 🌲 It also features results from our Sardinilla experiment. #TreeDivNet.🌳 news.mongabay.com/2025/09/new-... @uni-freiburg.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

Are you interested in Integrative Forest Management? In this blog for EFI's Resilience Blog you can read about: 🔍 What exactly is IFM? 🌱 How does it differ from other management concepts? 🎓 How is it being taught? #TRANSFORMIT, @uni-freiburg.de resilience-blog.com/2025/08/26/j...

🗞️New publication🗞️ How do neighbourhood diversity effects on tree growth change with climatic conditions?🌳🌲🔆🌧️ We adress this question in our new study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Liting Zheng. www.nature.com/articles/s41... /w @liting-zheng.bsky.social, Peter Reich & #TreeDivNet

It was a pleasure to meet and discuss tree trait responses to diversity @idiv-research.bsky.social 🌳🌲 #sTREND rocks🚨/w @juliakoricheva.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social, @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social, #TreeDivNet

Interested in biomass production in diverse planted #forests?🌳🌲 In our new study led by Georgios Skiaderesis, we analyzed the effects of species- and structural diversity on woody biomass production in the #Sardinilla experiment. #TreeDivNet @uni-freiburg.de www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great talk by Jürgen Bauhus at the #Integrate Network meeting in Zürich: The importance of Integrative Forest Management for maintaining social-ecological forest systems. #TRANSFORMIT, #FutureForests, @uni-freiburg.de

Unbelievable 🎉 - We have a New Cluster of Excellence - 🌳 #FutureForests🌲 Looking forward to working with the amazing interdisciplinary team of #FutureForests on analysing and developing transformation pathways for forest-based social-ecological systems!!! Great 7 years ahead @uni-freiburg.de!!!

🎉Happy 5th Birthday to the Root Economics Space!🌱 This fun blog from our colleagues @joanabergmann.bsky.social and Elsa Matthus at the @zalf.bsky.social celebrates 5 years of the Root Economics Space-a framework that describes the diverse root strategies to grow and survive belowgrond. #Ecology

🚨Are you interested in functional #traits, hotter #drought and #tree growth?🌳🔆 We studied tree growth responses to the 2018-2020 drought across 71 tree species. \w Lena Kretz, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social, @unileipzig.bsky.social ,@uni-freiburg.de, #ARBOfun onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A topic close 2 my heart: ❓️What are our roles & responsibilities as environmental scientists & of our professional societies in times of crises❓️ Read here👇 about an inspiring & long-lasting workshop & how we tackled this topic. Read more outcomes: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... More to come!!

An important part of a broader conversation about how we support scientists trying to wrestle with their roles. "Ecology for a social revolution: Re-defining the role of ecological and environmental science professionals and their responsibilities towards society" riojournal.com/articles.php...

⏰Call for Abstracts - FoWiTa 2025⏰ 29.09-02.10 @uni-freiburg.de We look forward to your contributions to our session👇 🌳 Biodiversity friendly forest management - from concepts to practices.🌳 ℹ️ Session info: shorturl.at/OO2i9 ✍Call for abstracts: shorturl.at/qSdj5 Deadline is 20 May.

Was ist der Einfluss des #Waldsterbens während Dürrejahren auf unsere #Trinkwasserqualität? Wir zeigen dies in unserer interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit @uni-freiburg.de aus Hydrologie, Fernerkundung, und Forstwissenschaften 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @carowinter.bsky.social

🗞️New paper in Earth's Future🗞️ 🌳🌲🍂💧🍂🌲🌳 #Forest dieback in drinking #water protection areas - a hidden threat to water quality 🌳🌲🍂💧🍂🌲🌳 Paper👉 doi.org/10.1029/2025... Press release👉 uni-freiburg.de/waldsterben-... @uni-freiburg.de @hydrofreiburg.bsky.social @mixedforests.bsky.social

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

New paper by our PhD student Annalena Lenk in #Forest #Ecology and Management: #Climate change-induced tree mortality can promote #oak regeneration in #floodplain forests – if flood-intolerant maple species are selectively removed. #Biodiversity #Research sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social

Interested in how #forest #resilience to #drought depended on tree diversity and #mycorrhiza? The study by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social in @journalofecology.bsky.social was just shortlisted for the Harper Prize🚨👏 Read more on the paper here👇 jecologyblog.com/2025/04/04/l...

🌾Is a new drought coming to parts of Europe? ZALF and @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social warn: Soils in Eastern Europe and some parts of Germany are very dry. An extremely dry winter has not been able to replenish water reserves. www.zalf.de/en/aktue... #agriculture #climate change 🧪

Congrats @juliakoricheva.bsky.social and colleagues on this well-deserved achievement!

Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️ 🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️ doi.org/10.1111/ele.... /w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social

Very pleased that data from the Satakunta forest diversity experiments have contributed to this @nature.com paper led by Laurent Augusto & Marie Charru @inrae-france.bsky.social which shows that tree species with conservative traits often outperform acquisitive species #TreeDivNet rdcu.be/eeeA8

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... 🧵

How does #biodiversity affect plant #defence investment? We found that while overall defence investment remains stable, plant species richness decouples leaf and root defences. For more details, check out our paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @newphyt.bsky.social

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌳🚨The COP16 #biodiversity negotiations officially concluded, with countries agreeing on a strategy to increase finance for biodiversity to $200 billion annually by 2030. Read the full statement by Crystal Davis, Global Director of Food, Land & Water Program, WRI: go.wri.org/joCHYS

💡FACT: Over 1M species are threatened by extinction, and more than half of the world's GDP depends on nature. This year on #WorldWildlifeDay, we celebrate the incredible #biodiversity that thrives in our urban environments - with snapshots from last year's EEA photo competition. #naturephotography

Its really amazing to see what we have already compiled in terms of #traits and multiple response variables in #ARBOfun and what is still to come. Such a cool group for studying #tree responses to climate extremes!

Interested in #forest restoration and #carbon sequestration? 🚨 In our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we show that 🌳 Tree diversity 🌲 increases carbon stocks and fluxes in a tropical forest experiment. #TreeDivNet, @uni-freiburg.de onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Wälder mit Vielfalt an Baumarten können deutlich mehr #Kohlenstoff binden als solche, die nur aus einer Art bestehen. Das belegt internat. Studie unter Leitung von #Forstwissenschaftler Dr. Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social #FakultätFürUmweltUndNatürlicheRessourcen: ufr.link/waelder-co2

I'm happy to share that I will soon be starting a new position as junior professor of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems at the @uni-freiburg.de I'm excited to start some new research on the interactions between forests and people, and will be hiring two PhD students...

🚨Alert to #forest and #fire enthusiasts: W3 professorship for Fire Ecology at @uni-freiburg.de ! More information here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... Its a great place to work and live at!

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding

Yes, we can do business travels across Europe with train! On our way today from Freiburg to Barcelona to our #TRANSFORMIT Horizon Europe project meeting on Integrative #Forest Management. /w Andreea Spinu @uni-freiburg.de

Wäre das nicht auch eine gute Idee @uni-freiburg.de? nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Wäre das nicht auch eine gute Idee @uni-freiburg.de? nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Interested in plants under climate extremes? 🍃🌡️💧❄️ Submit an abstract to our session at EGU in Vienna, 27th April- 2nd May 2025! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Abstracts due Jan 15th @kateplantphys.bsky.social

Interested in #tree mortality and remote sensing🛰️? In our new study led by Felix Schiefer we map standing deadwood in Germany with 10 m resolution. Tree mortality appears to be greater than previously expected. @uni-freiburg.de @kitkarlsruhe.bsky.social academic.oup.com/forestry/art...

As the year comes to a close, despite its challenges, we've been hard at work with an incredible group of ecology professionals, striving to shine a light of hope on the crises we face. 🌍✨ #Ecology #HopeForTheFuture

Could not make it to #BES2024 or to the cross-biome tree root trait and function session @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and I organized? No worries, I will summarize it here.

Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !! by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🌐🌍

Our #BES2024 workshop on recognizing, defining, and guiding ecologists’ responsibilities was a huge success with breakout groups moved to hallways. @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @mixedforests.bsky.social