🌻Functional Ecology's May issue is out now!🌻 📙On the cover: Monitoring phenological data (Credit: Robert Rauschkolb) 📖Read it here👇️ buff.ly/W70P6XE 🧵1/3 🧪🌍️

A new Special Focus in @funecology.bsky.social brings together 13 studies showing that shifts in seasonal timing — like earlier flowering, changing breeding periods, or longer fruiting windows — are shaped by more than climate change alone. 🌱 🌸 🍒 🔗 www.idiv.de/climate-chan...

We edited a special issue on interactions between phenology and traits in @funecology.bsky.social . This issue features 14 fascinating articles by colleagues from around the world on herbaceous species, trees, animals and plant-animal interactions🌳🌱🌸🦎🦜 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #Phenology #Traits

To look back on 9 years of PhenObs and to organise the coming funding phase until 2030, we had a meeting at @idiv-research.bsky.social this week. Together with many international guests, we laughed, discussed and worked on next steps.🌸🌱🌍. PhenObs can start the coming years with renewed energy👍.

Check out: New PhenObs paper published in ‘Basic and Applied Ecology’. We used historical data from Vienna and recently collected data from PhenObs to investigate whether phenological changes due to climate change (temporal scale) are also reflected on a spatial scale. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

We were represented at Pheno2025 conference (@biometeorology.bsky.social) in 🇧🇷 for the last 5 days. The days were full of exciting presentations and intensive exchange about phenological research. We look forward to deepening the collaborations we made in the future👍🌍.

We are happy that we can contribute to this conference in Brazil. Phenological research, like ecological research in general, must indeed be thought of in global terms, in line with the title of the conference: ‘PHENO2025 - Towards a Global Phenology Science’.🌍

PhenObs data were used for a paper recently published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. ⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Observations in botanical gardens offer a unique opportunity to compare phenological patterns of native and non-native species 🌸🍀. #climatechange #phenology #BotanicGardens

During hot summer days in Germany, there is nothing better than collecting trait data for the @phenobs.bsky.social project in the Alps at Davos🍀🌱📏⛰️. #davos #Switzerland #schatzalp

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

🚨 2x Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecology positions at @monashbiol.bsky.social. Ecologists working on plants 🌱 are strongly encouraged to apply. 📍Melbourne, Australia Closes: 7th Aug 2025 🔗 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

We just finished the PhenObs Spring Symposium. In six very different presentations, colleagues from all over Europe talked about how botanical gardens can be used for ecological research🌸🧪🐌. Conclusion: Botanical gardens are a fascinating research platforms👍. #botanicalgardens #phenology

🌿A new study in @newphyt.bsky.social finds that 27% of naturalised plants are threatened in their native range, revealing a conservation dilemma. As species distributions shift, conservation policies may need to evolve. #iDivResearch www.idiv.de/should-we-pr...

Check out the new paper by #NordBorN researchers in @newphyt.bsky.social using machine learning to check 8 million #herbarium specimens to assess long term changes in flowering #phenology 🌻

I invite you to track seasonal changes in plants and animals -- #phenology -- in your yard, to support science, and more importantly, because it is good FOR YOU. Excited to share my #TEDxUofA talk from last October: youtu.be/3l0fMlv2-5Q

Over forty years, research spanning the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and Scandinavia has shown significant alterations in Arctic vegetation as a consequence of climate variations. Around 60% of the locations examined in the study have witnessed a shift in plant species composition.

It is time to go "belowground" and starting monitoring of root phenology of herbaceous plant🌻. Thanks to funding by the @idiv-research.bsky.social we could set-up a study site with minirhizotrons at the botanical garden of Jena👍🏼. #phenology #roots #jena #science #phenobs #soil

Congratulations to iDiv’s founding director Christian Wirth!🥂 Yesterday, he received the member certificate of the Academy of Sciences @leopoldina.org - a high scientific honour.👏 Read more (in German): www.idiv.de/de/christian... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social #iDivImpact

After 6 years on X, we have decided to set up an account on Bluesky. Follow us to stay up to date about the project on phenological research in botanical gardens🌸🌱🌻. #Phenology #Herbaceous #Plants #BotanicalGardens #Research