Further evidence of the declining quality of endangered natural habitats has just been published in a new Preslia article on vegetation resurvey by Klára Friesová and collaborators. Open-access article: doi.org/10.23855/pre... Infographic by NotebookLM

♻️🆓: Loss, resilience and recovery of kelp forests in a region of rapid ocean warming doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Lichens and bryophytes are an often overlooked, yet dominant component of rock outcrops and other lithic habitats. Mulroy et al. compare lichen and bryophyte communities on sandstone and ultramafic bedrocks along a maritime gradient in Central California. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another reminder that @biogeography.bsky.social bi-annual conference is coming up in Aarhus, Denmark. It's been my favorite conference since I started attending it in grad school, and I cannot wait for Aarhus. Consider coming too - you won't regret it.

⛰️🌡️Recurrent drought amplifies drought impacts and increases seasonal synchrony in mountain grassland communities vist.ly/4gwfz #Asynchrony #Drought #DroughtRecurrence #Grassland #RecurrentDrought #SeasonalSynchrony #SpeciesRichness #Synchrony

🔆 Light and ungulate browsing interact in shaping future woody plant diversity through natural regeneration 🌍 In the current context of increasing tree mortality and subsequent light availability, roe deer act as a keystone species 🦌 📖 Read here: buff.ly/jxzTulh

Check out this new paper in the Frontiers of Biogeography, the flagship journal of @biogeography.bsky.social, on historical distribution and habitat of American chestnut by Joyce Klaus & Nathan Klaus. And as always - support our society by publishing with us! biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1619...

Population genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in ectomycorrhizal fungi with different dispersal mechanisms: implications from ice-aged relict forests across the Japanese archipelago - Takahiko Koizumi et al BMC Ecology and Evolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌳Shrubs promote the early-stage development of moss crusts by regulating the soil surface microenvironment in dryland ecosystems Utilizing the microenvironment provided by shrubs and combining it with artificial cultivation measures increases artificial moss development🟢 Read more: buff.ly/NUHSahc

Barker & Harms compare the groundcover plant and arthropod assemblages within stands of Pteridium aquilinum & Ilex glabra to the nearby bunchgrass areas and found significant differences in the plant🌿& arthropod🐜species richness and species composition. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When tropical cyclones hit forests that have not experienced them before they can cause dramatic changes in structure. In NE Asia there is a loss of emergent conifers. New paper by Korznikov et al. (2025) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

♻️🆓: A century of canopy kelp persistence and recovery in the Gulf of Alaska doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

🌤️🌱The effect of light availability and spatio-temporal heterogeneity on the soil seed bank diversity in temperate forests 📷 © Dafni Laura Thanopoulos 🎨 © Barbara Meyers vist.ly/4g4wd

A new paper by Attila Lengyel explores how several invasive species-Asclepias syriaca, Solidago gigantea and Solidago canadensis impact plant communities inidivually and whether their combined effect has stronger influence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #invasivespecies

🌍 Save the Date! The 12th International Biogeography Society Conference is coming to Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 📅 January 6-10, 2026 📍 Aarhus University Join biogeographers from around the world to exchange research, foster innovation, and push our field forward! #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #Aarhus

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Effect of topographic and spatial factors on bryophyte communities in riparian forests of the Brazilian Cerrado doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

If you have an interesting piece of GIS-related research you want to share with the world, you're welcome to submit to JVS. Link to our author guidelines below ⬇️ 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

🌿 Calling peatland folks! I’m compiling a global list of bog-specialist / indicator plant species (vascular plants + bryophytes) for my postdoc on bog niche modelling. I’m especially looking for knowledge from the Southern Hemisphere. If you are interested in collaborating, please DM or reply 🌱

♻️🆓: Macroalgal microbiome biogeography is shaped by environmental drivers rather than geographical distance

Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes vist.ly/4esms #Macroclimate #Microclimate #Biodiversity

Halbritter et al. explore how the effects of climate warming🔅 , nitrogen and grazing 🐮 on plant functional traits differ between alpine and sub-alpine grasslands🌿 in western Norway. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU

Vegetation change in dry grasslands in NE Germany was studied across 20–25 years.There were early signs of biodiversity decline. Increase in competitive, mesophytic species and decline in disturbance-tolerant specialists was found. Highest diversity was associated with intermediate levels of grazing

Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino: doi.org/10.1002/ecog... @ecography.bsky.social

This study from Puerto Rico suggests that ”intraspecific trait variation in tree species responds to environmental heterogeneity at range-wide but not local scales”. Such ”complexities are important for research on species distributions and range-shift dynamics”. doaj.org/article/1029...

Where will species go as the world changes? 🌍 Suggests that practitioners can find more reliable answers by pairing long-term biodiversity monitoring with dynamic models 📊🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands. apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS! Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Ljungheden på Äskhults utmark - ett av mänskligt brukande skapat landskap. Möte med expertrådet under länsstyrelsen i Halland. Ambitiös rekonstruering av byns marker inom kulturresevatet.

Herbarium specimens reveal shifts in species' elevational ranges Zu et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VB8MUG...

Seven consecutive annual fires promote the richness, abundance, & resilience of the Cerrado grass layer 🔥🌎 Grasses benefit much more from frequent fires than from the prolonged fire-suppression regimes that hinder their communities 🌱🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

‼️ Call for papers! We're looking forward to your submissions to our Special Feature on “Scaling laws in (vegetation) ecology” 🌿First deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2025 🌿Second deadline: Spring 2026 🌿Last deadline: Summer 2026

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Many congratulations to Adriane Esquivel, Rebecca Morgan and to all our colleagues supporting Amazon forest monitoring with RAINFOR and ForestPlots.net! Our analysis of 30 years of Amazon forest change is highlighted on the cover of @natplants.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP) 3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology. Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional. 📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25 🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade... #Postdoc #FireEcology

Many consecutive annual fires? 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Not extreme nor a problem for the Cerrado grass layer!!! More like a solution!🔥🔥🔥 See community, functional, and population responses of Cerrado grasses to seven consecutive annual fires in our new manuscript out today in Open Access! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning's inspiring talk held 2 weeks ago for Naturnahe Weidelandschaften e.V. is online now. No one else can argue as clearly & precisely for integrating grazers into modern conservaton. Great thanks to you, Jens! @jcsvenning.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...

The presence of alternative tree species in European beech forests drives change in functional diversity and composition of forest floor plant communities. A new paper by Bärmann et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A study by Bienvenue et al. from France found significant differences in plant species richness under and outside solar panels, calling for differential conservation strategies to enhance vegetation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The east Mediterranean shrub Styrax officinalis has been assumed to be introduced to Italy in recent time. The alternative hypothesis, that the Italian population is native, has been tested genetically. It was found that it is most likely native and relictic. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Postdoc position in coastal ecology at the University of Oldenburg, suitable for vegetation ecologists, application deadline 28 October uol.de/en/job/postd...

Genetics and diversity of the declining orchid Gymnadenia conopsea, the (chalk) fragrant orchid/brudsporre, was studied in order to understand how the structure of present populations has developed both historically and under influence of environmental variation. doi.org/10.1111/ecog....

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Wetland species cover, soil variables and topography explain non-native plant invasions in the U.S. Piedmont region. A new paper by Tarasi & Peet in the Special Issue on Biological Invasions in Plant Communities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

The competitor, stress-tolerator, ruderal (CSR) concept is a prominent plant functional strategy scheme, but does the plant CSR strategy correlate with leaf phytochemistry? Check out this case study on alpine plants by Onipchenko et al.! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How do #alpine plants respond to #climatechange? Researchers from the #SLF are using warming chambers to investigate the long-term effects of rising temperatures. This is part of #ITEX, a global network for researching tundra and alpine vegetation. www.slf.ch/en/news/plan...

The new issue of the IAVS Bulletin features four articles about two remarkable men who had a huge impact on European and global vegetation science, and who also greatly shaped my own scientific journey: John Rodwell and Sandro Pignatti. cdn.ymaws.com/www.iavs.org...