Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought : • Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought • Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own 🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

🗞️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/...

Eline Lorer defended very succesfully her PhD on global change effects on undersotrey phenology! Big congratulations Eline!! 🥂🎉

🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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

Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports

Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

Field experiments in natural areas are crucial to study environmental change but can pose risks to these ecosystems and their species. To minimize impacts, we propose a careful framework in NatuurFocus to balance potential damage against scientific value. 📸 by @habenblondeel.bsky.social

Interested in seeing how forests & other ecosystems are being lost to human activity in real time, either locally or globally? Check out new DIST-ALERT system on Global Forest Watch, which allows monitoring of vegetation disturbance events as they happen. www.globalforestwatch.org/blog/data-an...

New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me) ➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social More ⬇️ 1/7

Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question 🧪🌐🍁 shorturl.at/VYP8f

Where is most of the land use changes happening: * Deforestation: Tropics * Af/reforestation: China, Europe, US. Noting this also includes land abandonment (particularly Eastern Europe) essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) at #Q_ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: “African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing”. Deadline: 1st of December 2024. jobs.ugent.be/job-invite/2... #BELSPO #BelgianEO #FBWUGent

🔥 Paper in Science🔥 We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍 #seeddispersal www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

🌲🌲New comment just published in Tree Physiology, highlighting the work of @sharathpaligi.bsky.social! 🌳🌲 With Nicolas Martin @martin-stpaul.bsky.social, we discuss this great work to argue that tree growth strategies mediate drought resistance in species-diverse forests.