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

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.