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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 · 2d
it is on my reading list!

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Nicolas Gross, Karl Andraczek

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 3d
“Bektaş et al. (2026) offer a valuable template for future studies embracing the complexity of whole-plant strategies, inviting the scientific community to go beyond the traditionally used traits (Matthus et al., 2025).”
Thank you @karlandraczek.bsky.social & @newphyt.bsky.social 🙏🏽

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 3d
You can read the article for free here: rdcu.be/eXD2y
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Grazing affects plant diversity, but plant diversity in turn may modulate the effect of grazing on the plant community. This global analysis explores the...
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
De rien 😉!

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
The link is to the paper is here ⬇️

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
Another great outcome from the #BIODESERT dryland survey publishedin @journalofecology.bsky.social !

Congrats to Kaarina for leading this one!

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
In herbaceous plants, phenols are driven by grazing pressure and foliar nitrogen, while woody plants respond mainly to climate (precipitation & temperature).

Livestock and climate change thus reshape plant secondary metabolites, with consequences for ecosystem functioning and forage quality 🌍🌱

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
Plant phenolics play a key roles in plant strategies.

Here we explore the drivers of phenolic content in plants over 1800 species across global drylands 🧪🌐

➡️https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.70222

Reposted by Nicolas Gross

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · 4d
Just published in @natecoevo.nature.com: using data from the @erc.europa.eu funded BIODESERT dryland survey, we show that plant diversity strongly enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure. Conserving biodiversity is key to sustaining dryland rangelands worldwide rdcu.be/eXY6D

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
Another outcomes of #biodesert survey and the #DRY plant trait database!

This work has been led by @LucioBiancari at the @ftmaestre.bsky.social lab!

Congrats to all coauthors

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 4d
Grazing is a major land use in drylands with major impact on ecosystems

In a new paper, we found that plant diversity is key to increase ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure. This effect is driven by complementarity in plant traits

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Find more here⬇️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Grazing affects plant diversity, but plant diversity in turn may modulate the effect of grazing on the plant community. This global analysis explores the association between plant species richness and...
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Reposted by Carlos P. Carmona, Nicolas Gross

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · Nov 26
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
To assess impacts of land-use change on bird diversity, we began by collating surveys from the PREDICTS database, a repository of species occurrence and abundance data sampled across multiple land-use types70. We removed 30 datasets because they lacked abundance data...
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Nov 26
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 · Nov 26
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 · Nov 18
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 · Nov 13
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 · Nov 10
[ #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 · Nov 6
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 · Oct 28
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...

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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
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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
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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...
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