Check out our new publication! bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... This was a cool collaboration between modellers and field experimentalists where we implemented root traits and mycorrhizal fungi into a dynamic vegetation model. Led by the awesome Mateus Dantas de Paula! @tropiroot.bsky.social

#NExTropics symposia at #ATBC2025 find out the latest from nutrient addition experiments from across the tropics

We have started a LinkedIn group "TropiRoot Trait Initiative". Please free to join and share your research stories/articles in the group. #tropiroot #tropicalecosystems #ecology www.linkedin.com/groups/13255...

Shout-out to Hans Reijnen for beautiful footage of the @gdfcf.bsky.social, and the EduMedia department @w-u-r.bsky.social who did an amazing job creating a virtual tropical soil environment! Feel free to use to inspire your students! #ecology #roots #tropicalforest #costarica #tdf

Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University

TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot held a large group meeting on May 19th, featuring engaging presentations and insightful discussions on various aspects of below-ground traits. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots

A new Data Paper in "Ecology"👇

Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi! The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!

Congratulations to Amanda Cordeiro for leading this effort & to all the @tropiroot.bsky.social members who contributed! Putting tropical roots on the map!

Hooray for our new collaborative tropical root data paper from the @tropiroot.bsky.social team! esajournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy2.library.colostate.edu/doi/pdf/10.1...

New database of tropical root data!!

🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots

New paper out! Led by the amazing Amanda Longhi, as part of one more of our @tropiroot.bsky.social efforts! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Making tropical root data available to help us answer what happens belowground!

We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at [email protected]. Thanks

🥳 Congrats to Dr Lee who passed his PhD defense today. Ming Yang is a founding Team Underground student & @tropiroot.bsky.social member who studies root ecology in Southeast Asian tropical forests trying to understand how diverse forests overcome phosphorus limitation.

Great day for undergrad root research with @parched-panama.bsky.social today at CSU! Undergrads Ally Lewis,.Maya McCain and Hailey Tharp did a great job, with my MS student Grace McLaughlin helping advise! GOOOOO tropical root research @tropiroot.bsky.social

New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity

Thinking hard at the @tropiroot.bsky.social leadership meeting about next directions in tropical root research!

Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots

💻 🌿 Models Explain How Phloem Anatomy Restricts #Root System Architecture Development by Xiao-Ran Zhou, Andrea Schnepf, Jan Vanderborght, Daniel Leitner, Harry Vereecken, Guillaume Lobet https://buff.ly/3RqJNoV #CPlantBox #FSPM #PlantScience 🧪

🧪New research advances plant stomatal modelling by optimising for growth, survival & reproduction - not just carbon gain. The model accurately predicts plant responses to drought, heat & CO₂, promising better forecasts of global carbon/water cycles onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking. If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!

📰Published📰 Species contributions to ecosystems vary between geographic locations and seasons https://buff.ly/3Cgmrx7 🧪🌍

This ⬇️ is amazing work that confirms the need to account for interactions between species traits & their exposure to environmental stressors when predicting species redistribution 🌏🏔 It is exactly what we claimed in a perspective published last year in @globalchangebio.bsky.social shorturl.at/DPMX1

We figured out how much water is in all of Earth’s plants and how long it takes water to flow through them. Answer: 786 km3 and 5-18 days. @canopyinclouds.bsky.social @koen-hufkens.bsky.social

Just out! Jon Bridle and I have reviewed theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on how adaptation limits influence the fate of populations and communities in changing environments. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our new report "Mapping, monitoring, and protecting ancient and long-established woodland in Ireland" has just been published by @npwsireland.bsky.social. www.npws.ie/sites/defaul...

Please join this starter pack if you are connected or interested to the TropiRoot Network. go.bsky.app/3jG9f7z

Beautiful work by @olimeacock.bsky.social showing how interactions between species can change in predictable ways if they are mediated by changes to the environment. We hope this framework proves useful for linking between gLV and CR models and testing ecological hypotheses! Congratulations Oli!! 👏

Plant Science Research Weekly -- When form fits function, the value of root diversity to survival (Plant Physiol.) @josedinneny.bsky.social @prshanth.bsky.social (Summary by Marvin Jin) https://plantae.org/when-form-fits-function-the-value-of-root-diversity-to-survival/ #PlantaePSRW

NEW RESEARCH Long-Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees 📄 https://buff.ly/41r4NAO #HarvardForest #carbon #roots

Speaking about #proximal #microclimate conditions & what it means in terms of #spatiotemporal scales relevant for your study organism, I strongly recommend Dave's amazing paper ⬇️ @thenaturedave.bsky.social shorturl.at/aj2Dt

Interested in more of this type of work? Follow the microclimate ecology starter park with all these great people inside! go.bsky.app/7at8uFX

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Untangling poikilohydry and desiccation tolerance: evolutionary and macroecological drivers in ferns

Super proud of Shinichi and team for examining if leaf carbohydrate concentrations correlate with structure, chemistry, and physiology traits. 114 sp, 19 sites, 5 biomes. Take home: most daily C gain is exported nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Proud to share our new @plantphys.bsky.social review exploring the anatomical and molecular basis for root adaptations to the environment. Prashanth Ramachandran and Andrea Ramirez detail cell types and pathways that help plants stay resilient in a changing world. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot leadership team met today to discuss about some exciting stuffs: the upcoming leadership elections, new grant proposals and out reach efforts. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots

go.bsky.app/ACjNUuz Let me know if you want to join 🦠🌍🤗

Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs. Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico. Happy World Soils Day.

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New view on the carbon balance: Source vs sink limitations on tree growth: from physiological mechanisms to evolutionary constraints and terrestrial carbon cycle implications https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20294

Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds. Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini. Thread 1/2 rdcu.be/d1Tyg

we perform a global meta-analysis of 13,209 global change factors in experimental observations across the world’s land ecosystems to quantify plant (biomass and diversity) and soil biota (biomass, diversity, and abundances) responses to GCFs in different biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you interested in Root responses to climate change? Read our latest synthesis article about tropical root responses to global changes led by Daniella Yaffar and Laynara Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social on Global Change Biology. #fineroots #tropicalroots onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Publication alert 📢📢: A new paper by Amanda Cordeiro Longhi - examines how fine roots vary with soil depth across different lowland tropical forest ecosystems, contributing to soil carbon stocks. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @daniela-cusack.bsky.social #fineroots #tropiroots #roottraits

Here is a starter pack for #ExperimentalEcology ! I am surprised that my list is very short. Let’s grow it 🕸️ go.bsky.app/FNJ38h