🌳The 8th European #Agroforestry Conference will be held in #Switzerland in June 2026🇨🇭 ⚠️ Only few days left to submit a session proposal www.euraf2026.ch

🏔️Plant communities along Swiss mountain roads are warming: species are shifting upslope, but low cover of gained and lost species masks the species turnover. Presence-only models reveal clear thermophilization signal in just 10 years🧪🌎

🌿 Nitrogen inputs threaten non-N mineral nutrition and nutritional stability of forage in grasslands due to biodiversity loss🧪🌎

🌡️ Native grassland plants fare better under drought than introduced plants. However, this advantage is mitigated when other global change drivers, such as elevated temperature, increased nutrients, and elevated CO2, are considered alongside drought🧪🌎

🌿Liana diversity, abundance and basal area were influenced mainly by tree species richness, precipitation and soil nutrients. Liana diversity and density were positively associated with precipitation 🧪🌎 🔍Article: buff.ly/6N7Vhq6 📰Blog: buff.ly/TKRw6UU

Extremely proud of Eileen Enderle for publishing her second PhD paper in @journalofecology.bsky.social !! She shows that the impact that drought has on plant-soil feedback is mediated by soil bacterial and fungal communities. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌱Shading plays a dominant role in recruitment, but stochastic factors and seed limitations can alter outcomes over time. Understanding how these forces interact is key to predicting vegetation patterns and potential shifts in dryland ecosystems🧪🌎 buff.ly/tMoeKZ4.

I'm very glad to have been able to present our first results at the EGF conference this year and meet so many nice people. Thank you all !

Representing @agroscope.bsky.social at the 23rd EGF Symposium 2025 @emilieroinel.bsky.social 🌱☘️🌾

🦠 N addition enhanced topsoil multiservices by altering microbial network complexity through changes in plant & soil physicochemical properties🧪🌎 🔍Article: buff.ly/R7k6dWi 📰Blog: buff.ly/piYQeAB

@emilieroinel.bsky.social presented the first results of the #DryMountProject at the European Grassland Federation conference #EGF2025 @agroscope.bsky.social

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

Our Special Feature with @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social is now available to read! 🌎🧪 It highlights the application of new technologies to help with pernicious applied problems, and also reflects on the promise and potential pitfalls of new emerging technologies 💡

⏰Time is running out to submit your proposal for our cross-journal Special Feature Novel communities in response to global change! 🌏 Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh

Nitrogen fertilization reduces C and N loss during late stage necromass decomposition in soil. The strength of this effect varied with necromass species but was unexpectedly unrelated to melanin content. 👉 buff.ly/CDjHmFd

🔎 Recent study suggests that long-term nutrient enrichment may have a greater impact on community composition than diversity across multiple trophic levels, and these changes in community composition can have broad implications for ecosystem functions. 👉 buff.ly/mOVKf7n

🌎Northern temperate forest tree species at their northern limit in the boreal-temperate ecotone respond individualistically rather than as assemblages to Holocene climate change.🌲 Paper: buff.ly/4XvQESf Blog: buff.ly/tsntpKH

❄️ Our September issue is out now! 👉 buff.ly/gTI2X5f The cover image shows snowmelt around the base of a deciduous tree. Photo credit: Nathan G. Kiel. Read more: buff.ly/zFEN2O7 🌎🧪

Sampling success at the @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social with @alyssakullberg.bsky.social and Thibaut. What an amazing place to work! If you have temperature thresholds data and want to join forces, let us know! You'll make us and @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social happy.

Goats love tree leaves 🌳🌿🍃🐐 #AgroForageTreeProject #Agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social

Reportage TV sur notre projet de haies fourragères 🌳🍃🐄#AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

Reportage TV sur notre projet de haies fourragères 🌳🍃🐄#AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

‘We cannot do it the way our fathers did’: farmers across Europe struggle to adapt to the #climatecrisis - As wildfires rage in southern Europe and crop losses only set to increase in the coming years, producers are getting creative to beat the heat www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper: ‘Soil inoculation improves tree seedling growth in substrates containing bitumen, but the effect varies by species and inoculum source’ led by James Franklin @jamesfranklin, a past PhD from my group. 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Swiss #Agroforestry Systems Meet Farming Sector Expectations and Support #Climate Mitigation 👇

🌾The Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions special feature is open for proposals!🍄 🌲Proposal submissions close 15 September, more details here: buff.ly/e8PTkMM

🌿We are looking for proposals for Grime Reviews series 5: Protected and restored grassy ecosystems as climate solutions.🌾 Proposals are due 1 September. Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Interested in doing a PhD in ecophysiology? This is the place place to do it, amazing team, friendly environment and great supervision!

🧪 AI can now generate entire research manuscripts, sparking debate over "idea plagiarism." Researchers question if novel AI-generated papers are reusing core methods from others' work without attribution, challenging our standards for originality. #AcademicSky #MLSky

The Grazing Systems group @agroscope.bsky.social doing fieldwork in the canton of Grisons🇨🇭

Meanwhile, if your institution/grad program could use this one-week intensive writing course - hit me up! Plenty of availability in 2026. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-cour...

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In August, we are assessing the leaf biomass production (forage yield) of our six fodder trees species in the #AgroForageTreeProject. Even Alpacas like to eat tree leaves 🌳🌿🍃 @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

In August, we are assessing the leaf biomass production (forage yield) of our six fodder trees species in the #AgroForageTreeProject. Even Alpacas like to eat tree leaves 🌳🌿🍃 @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

Reading in journal club Wang et al. in Science Steering plant-soil feedback for sustainable agriculture www.science.org/doi/full/10....

⚠️ Call for Special Feature @journalofecology.bsky.social Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions. Topics include: - Approaches in understanding, measuring and predicting traits - Scaling from traits to ecosystem processes. Submit here: shorturl.at/sP5LC

“Functional biodiversity acts like an orchestra… it’s about combining the right instruments.” 🎥 Discover how #Agroecology contributes to #Biodiversity and resilient farming systems in our recent #VirtualRoadshow webinar and #RootsOfResilience film 👇 www.agroecology-transect.net/resources/ag...

🌺Contrast in floral traits conferred local pollinator facilitation between closely related congeners and explained community composition across broad spatial scales🌍🧪 buff.ly/5UeGzMb

☠️🌱This study reveals a widespread “resource involution” phenomenon in the resource competition between poisonous and non-poisonous plants, as well as the resource supply of soil microbial communities👇 buff.ly/GckhsRb

🪻Recent study demonstrates that dominant plants regulate short-forbs fecundity through combined vegetative and reproductive interactions, highlighting the critical role of multiple biotic interactions in sustaining biodiversity🌍🧪 buff.ly/9G9VA7B

🧪🌍A little cheer up between a lot of negative news: Our paper about the importance of food-web complexity 🌱🐛🪲🍄 for ecosystem stability has just been accepted! Great lead by Maowei Liang, together with Elizabeth Borer, Eric Seabloom and Dave Tilman. Preprint: www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️ Call for Special Feature @journalofecology.bsky.social Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions. Topics include: - Approaches in understanding, measuring and predicting traits - Scaling from traits to ecosystem processes. Submit here: shorturl.at/sP5LC

🔎Recent research highlights the complexity of newly assimilated C partitioning in moso bamboo forests and suggest that clonal integration may mitigate drought-induced dieback.🎍 Paper: buff.ly/dNBXPvv Blog: buff.ly/iZH1RxH

🍃Inter- & intraspecific drought responses in cottonwood revealed using leaf-level spectroscopy & UAV thermal imagery. Climate-driven adaptations shaped spectral & thermal traits, highlighting remote sensing’s role in predicting ecosystem resilience🌍🧪

🖥️ Review article: spatially-nested species distribution models (N-SDM) are effective tools to overcome niche truncation & produce robust projections when a fine resolution is needed at extents smaller than the whole species range (e.g. national studies)🌍🧪 buff.ly/H2qYeaA

🌲Using cheminformatics, researchers reveal how root exudate metabolic traits in Abies georgei shift along elevation, aligning with root strategies and driven by temperature and soil N—highlighting coordinated belowground adaptation🌍🧪 🔍Article: buff.ly/E6lT3S6 📰Blog: buff.ly/asMedy8

The Novel communities in response to global change special feature is open for proposals! 🌏 Interested in advancing understanding of the ecology and evolutionary consequences of novel communities in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems? 🍃 👉 buff.ly/lSyEPVt

🌱☘️⛰️☀️💧New video of our experiment testing the resistance of #forage mixtures to #drought in #mountain areas #DryMountProject More information here: shorturl.at/ozUBW @agroscope.bsky.social @emilieroinel.bsky.social