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Alba Anadon-Rosell
@albaanadon.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at @ub.edu, member of @geovegub.bsky.social,
@irbio-ub.bsky.social, and @humboldt-foundation.de
Plant ecology in alpine and Arctic ecosystems. #Shrubs and more

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Colin F. Camerer, Ben C. Sheldon , and 34 more

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 3d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Kate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 17d
Submit your abstract to join our session on climate extremes ☀️❄️and their effects on plants🌱 at #EGU in Vienna May 3-8 2026!! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 22d
For anyone interested near Barcelona next week, I’ll be giving a seminar (followed by other contributions) on ““Energy flow as a way of understanding ecosystem change and nature recovery”, as part of receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize 😊

Reposted by Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

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Catherine Preece @cathepreece.bsky.social · 22d
Congratulations Marcos! @burriach.bsky.social www.creaf.cat/en/articles/...
Marcos Fernández-Martínez receives the 'Ángeles Alvariño' national research award for his contribution in the field of ecology
Marcos Fernández Martínez, ERC researcher at CREAF, who has received the “Ángeles Alvariño” national research award in the category of Natural Resources Sciences and Technologies.
www.creaf.cat

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Fernando T. Maestre, Meelis Pärtel , and 2 more

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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 24d
📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain

Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!

📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026
IAVS Symposium 2026, Thematic 'Understanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation'.

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GeoVeg UB @geovegub.bsky.social · 26d
Des dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya s'ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral que afecta greument la gestió dels espais naturals. Aquesta situació compromet greument els objectius de conservació del patrimoni natural de Catalunya

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Denunciem la situació crítica dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i exigim solucions urgents
El personal dels Parcs Naturals de la Generalitat de Catalunya i de la Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural ha fet públic un manifest denunciant la situació de precarietat laboral ...
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Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Robin J. Pakeman, Elena Litchman , and 6 more

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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 28d
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · 29d
One of the main research topics at #Geoveg are high mountain #mires. Have a look at the most recent publications focusing on #carbon stocks, mire #restoration, #drivers of alpine mire vegetation, and a new finding for the Iberian Flora: #Sphagnum #lindbergii spotted in the Pyrenees!
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Noves publicacions sobre molleres pirinenques

Nuevas publicaciones sobre turberas pirenaicas

Four new scientific publications focused on Pyrenean mires

shorturl.at/0J7tI

@irbio-ub.bsky.social
@craiubbiologia.bsky.social
@sibecol.bsky.social y.social
@eco-aeet.bsky.social
@sebot.bsky.social

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GeoVeg UB @geovegub.bsky.social · 29d
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Noves publicacions sobre molleres pirinenques

Nuevas publicaciones sobre turberas pirenaicas

Four new scientific publications focused on Pyrenean mires

shorturl.at/0J7tI

@irbio-ub.bsky.social
@craiubbiologia.bsky.social
@sibecol.bsky.social y.social
@eco-aeet.bsky.social
@sebot.bsky.social

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Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología @ipe-csic.bsky.social · Oct 15
🔊Oportunidad de Doctorado: Proyecto GYPSME, Metabolismo del Azufre en Plantas de #suelos yesíferos.

Buscamos candidatos para #beca predoctoral de investigación (FPI) vinculada al proyecto.
📅Inicio 2026. Duración: 4 años

Más info en nuestro Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/posts/pyrene...

Reposted by Jonathan Lenoir, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Alicia Valdés , and 1 more

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · Oct 11
Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Malte Jochum, Alba Anadon‐Rosell , and 3 more

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BugNet @bugnet.bsky.social · Oct 10
Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉

BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:

📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems
The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · Oct 8
#ArticleIRBio
🌍Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation
and Latitude Gradients
✍️ A.Anadon-Rosell, E.Illa, J.Ninot, A.Pérez-Haase (IRBioUB) et al
📄GlobalEcologyandBiogeography
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
@geovegub.bsky.social

Reposted by Aníbal Pauchard, Patrick A. Jansen, Susanne Lachmuth , and 1 more

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Oct 7
Still time to apply for the open #postdoc position in our team!
Note that the link has been updated: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
#plant #functional #traits #clonal #shrubs #tundra #alpine #Pyrenees #Abisko #Finse #rhizome #ramet

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
@irbio-ub.bsky.social
@unigreifswald.bsky.social
@biologiaub.bsky.social
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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Thanks to all the people that contributed to this work and to all the funding agencies
@geovegub.bsky.social
@creaf.cat
@leed-greifswald.bsky.social
@humboldt-foundation.de
#INTERACT

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Finally, we tested several #sampling efforts to find out the best sampling strategy in order to reflect #intraindividual variability in population and community trait-based studies. Generally, accounting for several #ramets per clone emerged as the best strategy.

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
We also explored the potential environmental causes of #intraindividual variability across species. We found little relationship with local #climatic variables except for SLA. Most likely, microclimate is playing a role here.

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Within each species, we found very large values of #intraindividual variability. Sometimes, the variability within the individual reached, by far, greater values than the variability across #genotypes or #populations.

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
We found that a significant amount of variability occurred within the individual (both between and within #ramets of the same genetic individual) when looking across species

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Oct 3
Already home after a wonderful #ITEX meeting with lots of inspiring talks and conversations.
Thanks a lot to the Gothenburg organising crew, and to all the people that made it possible!
Picture taken in Ramsvik during the conference excursion

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · Sep 29
Excited to welcome a passionate group of Arctic scientists to the 22nd International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) meeting at Nordens Ark, on Sweden’s stunning west coast!

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Sep 28
Muchas gracias Carlos!!

Reposted by Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · Sep 27
This study documents extensive intraindividual trait variability (variability among repeated units within an individual) within clonal plants for both size-architectural and leaf traits (up to 100% of total). Congrats to @albaanadon.bsky.social and co-authors !

doi.org/10.1111/geb....
[Open access]
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco...
doi.org

Reposted by Francis Martin, Jonathan Lenoir, Tommaso Jucker , and 5 more

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · Sep 22
🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

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Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · Sep 18
#UniBarcelona | ☮️ La comunitat universitària se suma a la crida internacional de la societat civil en protesta per la situació inhumana que es viu a la Franja de Gaza

Estudiants i personal de tots els campus ens hem concentrat per condemnar el patiment del poble palestí i exigir la fi del genocidi

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Robin J. Pakeman, Alba Anadon‐Rosell , and 4 more

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · Sep 16
Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...
© 2025
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Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología @ipe-csic.bsky.social · Aug 24
⛰️ El último informe del IPE destaca la tendencia al aumento de las temperaturas de los #ibones del #Pirineo en los meses estivales, por encima de 20 grados, y la disminución del hielo en invierno.

ℹ️ www.heraldo.es/noticias/ara...
Los científicos alertan del calentamiento de los ibones del Pirineo en un verano de mucha presión turística
El último informe del Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología destaca la tendencia al aumento de las temperaturas en los meses estivales, por encima de 20 grados, y la disminución del hielo en invierno. ...
www.heraldo.es