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Nicolas Gross
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Community ecologist interested in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Jun 3
Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution!

It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏

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Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning. Here the authors identify thresholds of grassland plant community structure and stability in response to la...
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 7h
Led by Inke Smit this paper has been accepted without revision! Sometimes yes it happens! Hope you enjoy reading it!

Congrats Imke and all coauthors !

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 7h
New paper out today from our global #Biodesert survey!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We found a global a conservative-acquisitive functional trait match between dominant and target plants that promoted facilitation worldwide 🌐🧪🌎🌾

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Plant Trait Matching Occurs in Facilitative Interactions Across Global Drylands
Aim Plant functional traits can influence interaction outcomes between nurse and target plants through a “functional trait match”, which occurs when the traits of nurse plants ameliorate their envir.....
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Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Nicolas Gross

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 7d
Restoration ultimately aims to recover complex ecological systems with many interdependent species at large scale

To understand the driving processes, we combined experiments & modelling

Finding a trade-off between species recovery and food-web complexity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Jean Rivière, Éric Verdeil, Nicolas Gross , and 3 more

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 12d
Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

Reposted by Éric Verdeil, Nicolas Gross, Xavier Molénat , and 1 more

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 16d
[ #VeilleESR #CancelCulture ] Suite à des pressions politiques, dont un message du Ministre sur X (le réseau de désinformation du suprémaciste Elon Musk), le Collège de France a été contraint d'annuler un colloque sur la Palestine.
Le Collège de France annule un colloque sur la Palestine « en réaction à la polémique entourant » l’événement
Le Collège de France « ne prône, ni n’encourage, ni ne soutient aucune forme de militantisme », a affirmé l’établissement qui assure de sa « stricte neutralité (…) au regard des questions de nature po...
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Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 20d
Un document concis et clair du @hc-climat.bsky.social

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Nicolas Gross

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 28d
Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa

More at climameter.org
Conclusion of rapid attribution study showing the estimated effects of human-caused climate change on the intensity of hurricane Melissa

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Nicolas Gross, Joan Dudney

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Oct 18
Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators
To understand, measure and mitigate biodiversity change, science and policy need to differentiate between diagnostic indicators that capture as many different biodiversity facets as needed, outcome-o...
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Reposted by Meelis Pärtel, Akira Mori, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 4 more

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DroughtNet @droughtnet.bsky.social · Oct 16
The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Société Botanique de France @societebotaniquedefrance.fr · Oct 9
Ces écosystèmes accueillent une riche biodiversité, piègent du carbone, filtrent l’eau, permettent de nourrir des animaux d’élevage… mais ils sont menacés par une utilisation de plus en plus intensive.

Aujourd’hui, nous allons parler des prairies !
Photo d’une prairie très verte, prise au ras des herbes. Au premier plan on voit des tiges de graminées. À l'arrière-plan, on voit la haie qui borde la prairie. Photo par Juliette Champagne, via Wikimedia Commons

Reposted by Teja Tscharntke, Nicolas Gross, Pieter Vantieghem

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Thijs Fijen @thijsfijen.bsky.social · Sep 25
We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Bertrand Dumont @bdumontae.bsky.social · Sep 18
L’agroécologie : une alliée pour la nature, le climat et l’agriculture en Europe

Une méta-analyse de 170 études, dans 21 pays, montre que les systèmes agroécologiques favorisent la biodiversité & le stockage du C dans les sols 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/l...

@agroscope.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social

Reposted by Nicolas Gross, Sandra Dullau

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · Sep 7
Highly interesting research by Tamsin Lockwood and colleagues now published in a paper titled

"Semi-natural grasslands as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation: An assessment of carbon and plant communities across age gradients"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · Sep 2
Read the story behind this paper in the @springernature.com Earth & Environment community:

communities.springernature.com/posts/decada...
Decadal warming depletes topsoil nitrogen stocks in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem
communities.springernature.com

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Sep 2
📰Published📰Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet🌱

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Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet
Sushmita Dhakal, Kazi R Mehnaz, Erin I E Rogers, Ian J Wright, David S Ellsworth This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Phosphorus is an …
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Aug 22
Congrats! can you send the paper it is a paywall, merci!

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Thomas Perrot @tperrot.bsky.social · Jul 30
New publication in Proceedings B: urlr.me/qZ39CJ. We show that the use of insecticides reduces rapeseed yields beyond a threshold of 36g/ha. The reason is that insecticides reduce natural regulation, leading to an increase in insect pests and weeds!
Crop yield loss under high insecticide regime driven by reduction in natural pest control | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Current agricultural pest management mainly relies on the use of synthetic insecticides with strong adverse impacts on the environment or humans. Decreasing crop productivity in the case of pesticide-...
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Aug 19
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter
Land use has diminished global vegetation and soil carbon stocks, contributing substantially to global warming. Our research provides a consistent and unprecedentedly detailed global estimate of the t...
www.cell.com

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Aug 18
Reading in journal club:

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself

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Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself
What happens when the greatest strengths of science, such as openness, humility, self-criticism and self-correction, are exploited for political gain? This Perspective calls for scientists to affirm t...
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Reposted by Lindsay C. Stringer, Ning Chen, Nicolas Gross

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Aug 14
To meet the targets of the #UN Rio Conventions (#UNCCD, #UNFCCC & #CBD) we must bend the curve of land degradation. Our latest Review in @natureportfolio.nature.com #Nature discusses how to do it by 2050 by urgently transforming global food systems rdcu.be/eACfr #KAUST

Reposted by Fernando T. Maestre

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Aug 14
A must read

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

from @ftmaestre.bsky.social et al.!
Bending the curve of land degradation to achieve global environmental goals - Nature
The Rio Conventions’ objectives can be met by transforming food systems to bend the curve of land degradation.
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Reposted by Seth M. Munson

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Aug 11
Mitigating vegetation fragmentation in drylands requires promoting plant–soil facilitation, especially under high grazing pressure.

For more see our new paper in #GEB 🌐

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another great outcomes from the #biodesert survey led by
Yanchuang Zhao!
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands
Aim To evaluate how grazing pressure, a key land-use factor, interacts with climatic, vegetation, and soil variables to shape the fragmentation of perennial vegetation across drylands globally. Lo...
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Reposted by Tuomas Mattila, Nicolas Gross

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Aug 9
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
UPF and adiposity. The percentage of daily calorie intake from UPF was positively associated with body fat percentage in bivariate analyses and in multiple regression, including FFM-adjusted total expenditure, age, sex, and HD rank.

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Nicolas Gross

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 9
Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Nature - Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
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Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Vincent Felde @vincentfelde.bsky.social · Aug 7
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
"Life on Earth is not confined by our imagined political boundaries between one country and the next, between one state and the next... "
Brave new world 2.0 - Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry -
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Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · Aug 6
New on the Belowground blog: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/c...
Context matters: Plant diversity affects soil carbon storage differently across ecosystems
News and commentary by Gerrit Angst and Šáarka Angst from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry. The photo above is of the Jena Experi…
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Reposted by Nicolas Gross, Anthony Burke

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · Aug 4
'Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.'
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...
www.thelancet.com

Reposted by Michael Schmitt, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 8 more

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jul 31
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...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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Reposted by Joseph A. Tobias, James M. Bullock, Nicolas Gross , and 3 more

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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · Jul 29
In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Pierre Dezeraud @pierredzrd.bsky.social · Jul 29
Tribune signée par un vaste collectif (scientifiques, sociétés savantes, associations, collectifs en santé & environnement, associations de patients) : « Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution »
« Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution »
TRIBUNE. Alors que la pétition contre le texte réintroduisant l’acétamipride a franchi les deux millions de signataires, des associations de patients et des sociétés savantes médicales ou scientifique...
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