📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... ➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

#MultiyearDroughts, it is nice to see studies with distinct designs and used data converge to similar results — "25-30%" seems to be a key range, in this study about the measured reduction of primary production in grassland and in our previous study with kNDVI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... .

Our new article in Nature Plants, led by César Leblanc, introduces Pl@ntBERT, an AI model inspired by language models like ChatGPT, but trained on > 1M vegetation plots from the EVA database. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Cesar... GitHub: github.com/cesar-leblan...

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

The Swiss forest 🌳remains functioning! Same location, mushroom was found in 2023, but not 2024……this year’s return is rewarding 🍄‍🟫

Hydroclimatic Rebound Drives Extreme Fire in California's Non‐Forested Ecosystems 🔗 buff.ly/gbnsdzd

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Climate rather than overgrazing explains most rangeland primary productivity change in Mongolia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An art gallery of science? What would your art gallery of ecology look like.....? open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

boldly interesting - climate change actively alters human behaviours, its impact is just everywhere

Climate skeptics have long been obsessed with corrections to temperature records for changes in measurement techniques and instruments over time. But it turns out that if we just used the raw data we'd see more warming. My latest at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🌳 New Tansley Insight! What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔 I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

Good news for a change: Background mortality in unmanaged forests of Europe has not increased over past decades. Great work from the European Forest Reserve Initiative EuFoRIa, out in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia. That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of #globalwarming.

Revisiting the cry-for-help hypothesis in plant–microbe interactions #plantscience

Numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF IFS) still outperform AI weather models in forecasting record-breaking hot and cold extremes and unseen wind extremes Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724 with Zhongwei Zhang @erichfischer.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and Sebastian Engelke

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interactive Effects of Warming and Competition Do Not Limit the Adaptive Plastic Response to Drought in Populations of a Mediterranean Plant 🔗 buff.ly/mm1MHhn @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @marinirm.bsky.social @smatesanz.bsky.social @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social

🌍 Climatic disequilibrium modulates canopy service depending on abiotic stress. Facilitation increases under harsher conditions, supporting the Stress Gradient Hypothesis when stressors act together🧪👇

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A feature in Nature reports on the rising levels of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in rainwater and the debate about the threat it poses. 🧪

New paper out! 📃 Enhanced structural complexity in forests has limited effects on #soil abiotic properties, but #microbial activity and biomass respond site-specifically. Soil moisture and understory growth link to microbial functions. 💧🧫🌳🍁 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

not VIFs specifically, but I recently posted this list of papers I like about "why you shouldn't worry about multicollinearity so much": github.com/idworkin/McM...

More automated biodiversity surveying: full set-ups of moth detector, audio detectors for birds, bats and insects (eg grasshoppers), and auto pan trap for flying insects. The latter avoids killing insects in standard pan traps. Detection, counting & identification is automated & standardised.

This species-specific study and another latest out global analyses www.nature.com/articles/s41... converge to the same conclusion: enhanced tree/forest growth by the global warming cannot offset the negative impacts causes by disturbances, such as droughts.

Happy to share our new #NatureComms paper, "Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades" led by @uarizona.bsky.social PhD Candidate Wen Zhang w/ @trevorkeenan.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re hiring! Join us at maraujo lab as a #PhD candidate to model species abundances using cutting-edge ecological and statistical tools. Based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 www.maraujolab.eu/2025/07/04/p... #SpeciesDistributionModels

Tree species composition 🌳🌲🌳🌲 of the upper canopy layers (including the shrub layer) matters more than macro-environmental conditions to model plant biodiversity in the understory 🌱🌿☘️🍀 Canopy species composition as a surrogate to capture microclimate processes ⬇️ 🧪🌐🍁🌍 shorturl.at/ST5AR

A truly amazing leap forward for the whole ecology - cannot wait to explore more. @esa.int ESA - Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

🆕 The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released – they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle 🌳🌍 www.esa.int/Applications...

A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Normalized tree water deficit: an automated dendrometer signal to quantify drought stress in trees

New paper in ERL! We study the importance of resolution for the representation of climate extremes. We use a new generation of km-scale models to show that many important details about temperature and precipitation extremes are hidden at CMIP6-like resolutions. doi.org/10.1088/1748...

Adde et al.: Spatial #Biodiversity Indicators and a Composite #Index for #Conservation #Prioritization in Switzerland 🇨🇭@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 🌍🌐🐟🦐🦋🌳🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5 🧵 as part of speed2zero.ethz.ch/de/ & great thanks to everyone involved who moved this forward!

Go check out our event-based evaluation! Beyond the global scale patterns of increasing multi-year droughts, there are over 10,000 identified events inventoried with explicit spatiotemporal coverage, from which one could easily extract events of their whatever interest across disciplines and uses.

Ever since I dug into this story while researching Proof, and realised I was doing tea sub-optimally, I’ve been overthinking all other hot drink making… www.wired.com/story/how-a-...

🦠Research reveals that nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial & fungal communities, posing great challenges for an accurate evaluation of ecosystem functions under future global change scenarios 🧪🌍

Our May issue is out with content on the health risks of wildfire pollution, the link between forests and human health, efficient syngas conversion, sustainable battery recycling, tritiated water clean-up and more. https://bit.ly/44PoWCv

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

At WSL @wslresearch.bsky.social we are hiring a "Postdoc in Regional Climate Downscaling" for a forest/climate project in Armenia funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation (DEZA). 📍 Switzerland | 🕐 1.5 yrs | 📅 Start: Spring 2025 Details: apply.refline.ch/273855/1727/... Please share widely.

Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. Here, the authors revisit a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adjustments to reduced precipitation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌲‪@singletreeeu.bsky.social‬ project was proudly represented at the 25th Swiss Global Change Day #SGCD25 by Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. Check out our poster presented 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/single...

...however, the neighbours almost dislike either China or the USA.

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

New study on linking wealth-based emissions to climate impacts: We find that 2/3 of global warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% and so are climate extremes. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @iiasa.ac.at, @usyseth.bsky.social 1/

We projected tree species distribution under a collapse of the AMOC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pangaea plans to fully incorporate the NOAA data into its own archive, which will ensure that scientists globally have access in future www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Global Synthesis of How Plants Respond to Climate Warming From Traits to Fitness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🌐🌾

This is the jacket for the Chinese translation of Blue Machine, which will be out soon. I LOVE this painted depiction of the waves... most imaginative wave version yet!