Resharing new paper @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪 🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌡️🔥❄️ 🌲💪 Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺 🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum 🍃🌱 📖more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

« Mitigating climate change requires ending the burning of fossil fuels. Offsets distract from this crucial task. »

Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social: Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬 Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Our new study from RWANDA TREE shows that: Species with big leaves & low stomatal conductance tolerate more heat, but with tighter safety margins. Heat tolerance acclimates,but partially:+0.31°C per +1°C Tgrowth Leaf temperature matters more than heat tolerance for survival. doi.org/10.1111/pce....

New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.

Stronger photosynthetic plasticity to warming in the Andes than in Afromontane tree species Congrats @mirindidusenge.bsky.social et al. ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿 👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes! 👨‍🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team. 🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P #PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality

I have commented that recent paper on LinkedIn. It’s the most important article published so far showing the effect of climate change in the last two decades, especially increase temperature, on fruit and seed crops in an Amazonian rainforest. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....

Cool viewpoint on the impact of extreme temperatures on cell death. Perhaps some ecophysiology is required to articulate whole-plant observations and cellular mechanisms 🌿

Residual leaf water loss changes during drought, impacting on future predicted plant mortality Led by @regisburlett.bsky.social with @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @martin-stpaul.bsky.social @hcochard.bsky.social @sdelzon.bsky.social @guillaumefo.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts (Viviane de Araújo Brito Fernandes, Fernanda Santos Farnese, Brenner Ryan Arantes, et. al.) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026 @ASPB #PlantScience

Help us empower #womeninSTEM ! Join our FREE global #webinar event to celebrate #women in #forest #science! Find out more and register 👇 a-48350767.hubspotpagebuilder.com/en-us/ #foresthealth #freewebinar #climatechange #forestpolicy @iufro.bsky.social

At least 3 recent papers have generated considerable debate on the interpretation of research on common mycorrhizal networks (Karst et al., Henriksson et al., Robinson et al.). They stirred questions on our relationship with epistemology, our understanding of forest functioning,

This morning at 10 (GMT+1), Olivier Manzi will defend his PhD thesis. Check it out :)

We are looking for three 3-year post doc positions within the #WIFORCE research program Future Silviculture #SLU #Umeå. Please share! Carbon and water fluxes in boreal forests Drivers of xylem embolisms in forests Tree belowground site occupancy in boreal forests www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

New in #NewPhytologist: Temperature governs the relative contributions of cuticle and stomata to leaf minimum conductance (shorturl.at/f9h7O) - Exciting work with #MichaletzLab PhD graduate #JosefGaren @ubcbotany.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @newphyt.bsky.social

Will tropical montane tree species climb "the escalator to extinction"?

A transplant experiment involving mosses along ... 59 sites!

From mapping forest function and disturbances, exploring forest dynamics to mortality from drought, 2024 has seen several analyses we've been working on for years finally come out. Here's a quick summary of them, @julenastigarraga.bsky.social @n-acil.bsky.social @daijunliu.bsky.social

Are you in Lausanne, Switzerland next week? Come and hear me (a scientist) and Maja Renn (a performance artist) discuss Maja’s current piece '[Pheno]plasticity' from scientific & artistic perspectives!! Wednesday, 4 December 24, 2.45pm – 3.45pm Salle MED 2 2423 EPFL, Lausanne Free admission (1/4)

La forêt connectée comme dans Avatar ? www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-num...

🚨 PhD: "Forests on the edge: examining vegetation recovery following climate extremes" at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Lina Mercado (Exeter) and Eddy Robertson (UK Met Office). I would REALLY love to find a student for this, please share widely (thanks) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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, submission info here: egu25.eu/programme/ho...

🌱🦠 From the upcoming #AJB Plant-Microbe Interactions special section 🦠🌱 Are plant traits drivers of endophytic communities in seasonally flooded tropical #forests? By Marion Boisseaux, Valérie Troispoux, Alice Bordes, Jocelyn Cazal, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #ecology

New Article: "Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming" rdcu.be/d0Izp Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience

Good summary of the just released 2024 Global Carbon Budget, by @carbonbrief.org . Fossil fuel emissions still increasing slightly, land use change emissions decreasing steadily but big uptick from fires in the Americas. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...