🦋🪳How has insect diversity in Switzerland changed over the past 90 years? A unique long-term analysis reveals significant declines – and only partial recovery. www.wsl.ch/en/news/hist... #Insects #Biodiversity #Switzerland #Research @agroscope.bsky.social 🌍

REVIEW Flux Footprints: A Critical Link to Bridge Eddy‐Covariance Measurements With Models, Remote Sensing, and Other Observations 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What can sub-daily signatures of sap flow dynamics tell us about plant stress? 🌱💦🌡️ And what would we need to monitor those signatures from space? Check out Anna Schackow’s paper, just off the press in Biogeosciences @egubg.bsky.social bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#TansleyReview: Shaping future forests: how can ecophysiology support climate-smart forest management? Gessler et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue @wslresearch.bsky.social; @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social; @annekempel.bsky.social; @josegruenzweig.bsky.social

Despite rapid warming, seed production is not leading poleward migration in North American and European forests Clark et al. @frodsan.bsky.social @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social @rolandkays.com @valentinjourne.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NRGUJA...

A large-scale analysis of wildfires in the Western United States shows that U.S. Forest Service fuel-reduction treatments not only curb fire spread and intensity, but also, for each dollar invested, generate more than three times the value in avoided damages. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uAs5Qc

Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!

Pre-Fire Fuel Conditions Are Dominant Drivers of Burn Severity in the 2025 Los Angeles County Fires agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

@liangzhi-chen.bsky.social from @wslresearch.bsky.social is the Swiss National Champion for the Frontiers Planet prize. Congratulations, well deserved! #Megadroughts, #mitigation_strategies www.frontiersplanetprize.org/news/thought...

Such a surprise and great honour! It's a team effort. I am grateful to be able to work with many brilliant minds in @wslresearch.bsky.social and beyond — especially my mentor @dirknkarger.bsky.social , @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and Philipp Brun! www.frontiersplanetprize.org/news/thought...

The underappreciated roles of fog and dew on vegetation and biocrusts #TansleyReview by Wang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Global energy-related CO2 emissions reached a new record high, but growth nearly ground to a halt (+0.5%) CO2 fell in China, India and the EU, while rising in the US 7/10

‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The first paper from my PhD is now out in the world 🌲📖 Modelling forest dynamics using IPMs and repeat lidar doi.org/10.1002/rse2...

Atmospheric dust gives plants nutrients through their leaves 🍃 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵1/3 #PlantScience

Climate niche models underestimate the speed with which species move in response to climate change, according to comparisons between the models and observed shifts for more than 3,500 species. Median rates were four times faster than predicted. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Mokn50YCqty

🔴 Warum es in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz einen Kälteeinbruch gibt? Die Kälte kommt direkt aus der Arktis - Klima ist global. Das sollten sich auch alle hinter die Ohren schreiben, die immer noch behaupten, dass die Klimakrise "woanders" wäre und nichts mit uns zu tun hätte.

⚠️ New paper out in @journalofecology.bsky.social Our study highlights the mechanisms associated with the stronger drought resistance of subordinate species in grasslands 🌱☀️ @albertocanarini.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

March in Western North America is deadly hot, completely above temperatures that would have been possible without climate change from burning oil, coal and gas. New record shatteringly rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/record-shatt...

🌱Grassland bud and shoot responses to nitrogen addition depend on how often it’s added. Frequent, small doses are less damaging to new growth than large, infrequent ones. 🔍 Article: buff.ly/99gfQ4c

New online! Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution

1st stakeholder workshop for the case study "Diversifying Finland's forests" within @trees4adapt.bsky.social project is done! Good discussions on risks to Finnish forests from climate change and biodiversity loss and feasibility of forest diversification as a tree-based solution to these risks

Biodiversity and climate strongly shape forest resilience after multi-year droughts, but after accounting for the human footprint, biodiversity’s contribution is consistently and strongly negative 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper out!🌳🐾Vital role of human footprint in altering forest resilience after disturbances. Forest resilience anomalies after extreme droughts relate to species richness positively or negatively, but when human pressure is included, its interaction with species richness diminishes forest resilience.

We finally withdrew our submission today and will send it to another journal. Geophysical Research Letters used to be one of my favorite journals, but the fact that they made minimal effort to find reviewers despite our updated suggestions was disheartening. After 5 months, 0 reviewers assigned.

When the climate shifts, it squeezes the safe climatic space of grasslands, says lead author Chaohui Li in @cnn.com interview. The researchers find that world's grasslands could shrink by half as climate change becomes more intense, threatening global food systems. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/w...

In our new work, we present a mechanism-based critical assessment of #forest #management practices to support climate-smart forestry in response to shifting environmental and climatic conditions. @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great pleasure to present at the 1st WSL–Eawag Biodiversity Research Day our latest G4B (www.grass4b.com) project results: 10m resolution grassland management mapping efforts over the Alps and Carpathians. @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @g4biodiv.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu

New exciting paper with Lu Fluxes involvement, highlighting how trees, ponds and grazing strongly shape greenhouse gas dynamics in Sahel savannas, showing how complex and dynamic semi‑arid ecosystems really are. Well Done Alek! @beccsweden.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social

🌱 Ignoring spatial heterogeneity biases estimates of competition & leads to incorrect predictions of competitive exclusion instead of species coexistence. 🔍 Read: buff.ly/Wnpb4DO

New online! Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

News from the tree nutrition front: despite all the nutrient input/output drama of the past decades, trees in Northern Europe seem to be doing fine, except they might still be missing some nitrogen. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @globalchangebio.bsky.social

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Understanding emergence in complex systems using abductive AI A Comment from Yong Li, Deliang Chen & colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s42...

📣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