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Nicolas Gross

@nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social

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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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#FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏

@inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

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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Société Botanique de France @societebotaniquedefrance.fr · 22h

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

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Thijs Fijen @thijsfijen.bsky.social · 14d

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/...

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Bertrand Dumont @bdumontae.bsky.social · 21d

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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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"

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Nature Geoscience @natgeosci.nature.com · Sep 2

Read the story behind this paper in the @springernature.com Earth & Environment community:

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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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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reading in journal club:

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself

@plosbiology.org @briannosek.bsky.social
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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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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

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

A must read

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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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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 🌐

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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

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.

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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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Vincent Felde @vincentfelde.bsky.social · Aug 7

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"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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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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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.'
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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...

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Reposted by Michael Schmitt, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis , and 4 more Michael Schmitt, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Julie L. Lockwood, Marcus Grant, Nicolas Gross, Juan Rocha

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.
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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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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 🌍🌐🧪

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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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Reposted by Arvind Narayanan, Colette L. Heald, Nicolas Gross , and 1 more Arvind Narayanan, Colette L. Heald, Nicolas Gross, Wolfgang Huber

Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · Jul 17

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.

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Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jul 17

In this News & Views commentary, Frank Pennekamp discusses a new study that sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships, www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Free to read: rdcu.be/ewDdf

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Reposted by Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Salma Loudiyi, Dominique Meurs , and 2 more Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Salma Loudiyi, Dominique Meurs, Nicolas Gross, Sylvain Lesage

Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · Jul 16

1 mn pour signer ...
1 chance pour revenir sur cette loi, véritable rupture démocratique pour conjurer cynisme&irresponsabilité.
Chaque signature compte!
A toutes et tous!
C'est ici 👇 et vivent les rebsweets!
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Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée ...

Je m'appelle Eléonore PATTERY, j’ai 23 ans, et je suis actuellement en Master QSE et RSE (Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement / Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises). En tant que future professionne...

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Kiseok (Keith) Lee @kiseokmicro.bsky.social · Jul 16

Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
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Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature

Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 16

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
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Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen

Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Jul 15

#Communiqué🗞️ Les activités agro-pastorales ont accéléré l’érosion des sols alpins à un rythme 4 à 10 fois plus rapide que leur formation naturelle. Une équipe de recherche vient de décrypter l’histoire de cette érosion pour la première fois⛰️

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our new paper is out😀

Beautifully led by Benoit Pichon and a dream team of co-authors!

Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation

We studied how grazing pressure affects plant spatial patterns in drylands by using satellite images, field plant size and abundance data, and a mathematical model. We found that increasing grazing p....

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Reposted by Philippe Quirion, Vincent Tiberj, Samuel Challéat , and 11 more Philippe Quirion, Vincent Tiberj, Samuel Challéat, Fabián Muniesa, Vincent Noël, Nicolas Gross, Camille Schmoll, Nicolas Brisset, Johanna Siméant, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Frédéric Delsuc, Michel Naepels, Bernard Davasse, Laetitia Biscarrat

CNRS Écologie & Environnement @cnrsecologie.bsky.social · Jul 9

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · Jul 8

Le Parlement a définitivement adopté mardi la proposition de loi agricole Duplomb-Menonville, comprenant entre autres une mesure décriée de réintroduction sous conditions d'un pesticide néonicotinoïde, et présentée comme une réponse à la colère agricole de 2024.

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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · Jul 8

Visiting the long term grassland observatory in Laqueuille France @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

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