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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 7d

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7

Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 12d

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 29d

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring

Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · Sep 4

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate.
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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees

We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...

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Helena Vallicrosa @vallicrosah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sampling success at the @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social with @alyssakullberg.bsky.social and Thibaut. What an amazing place to work! If you have temperature thresholds data and want to join forces, let us know! You'll make us and @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social happy.

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Sep 2

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny!

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@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Aug 20

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

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Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · Aug 18

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective

This review examines the physiological and ecological responses of trees to emerging compound droughts from a water demand and supply perspective, as well as the role of acclimation and consequences ...

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · Jul 31

ONE Lectureship in genomics + TWO in ecology are advertised right now in my 'hood. Applications close 7th August. It'd be brilliant to have these filled with plant people. #PlantSciJobs #MonashBiol #plantecology #plantgenomics 🪴🧪🌱🌿🌾 This links to both : www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

Three positions at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ecology (2 positions) or Genomics (1 position) - VIC - Ecological Society of Australia

Closing 7 August 2025 The School of Biological Sciences at Monash University is seeking three academics to join our team as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (tenured-equivalent position under the Austral...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Jun 6

#Viewpoint: Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of #conifers vs #broad-leaves has critical implications for research and modelling

Kate Johnson, Matilda Brown, Katya Bandow & Helena Vallicrosa 👇

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Global distribution of conifer leaf widths and silhouettes of both broad-leaved conifers and nonbroad-leaved woody angiosperms.

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · May 27

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

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Dario Martin-Benito @dendroecologist.bsky.social · May 20

The ability of some trees species to respond to climate and/or CO2 may increase their survival under global change. Species with lower plasticity may face higher mortality. Our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #WhatKillsTrees

Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality

Increasing drought threatens forests, but tree species respond differently. We examined how long-term drought and rising CO2 affect three Mediterranean tree species with different drought tolerances....

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Apr 22

🌳Urban trees keep cooling - even during record-breaking heatwaves! We show that trees maintained high transpiration, defying model predictions. Tree cooling during heat may be underestimated 🌡️💦
Great study led by Christoph Bachofen @wslresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ring‐specific vulnerability to embolism reveals accumulation of damage in the xylem

Human-caused climate change is predicted to bring more frequent droughts and higher temperatures in the western United States, which threaten ecologically important trembling aspen forests. We used ...

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Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social · Apr 14

New paper led by Diane Lu based on work with on hydraulics of Puerto Rican trees with @smithmartin.bsky.social

A Spatio-Temporal Model Of Embolism Propagation In Leaf Vein Networks

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Apr 10

Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

I am very happy to see our paper out! Plant responses to many stresses are mediated by the same processes and I have long wondered how this relates to hotter droughts.

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

Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Apr 8

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🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social

Leaf Excision and Exposure Duration Alter the Estimates of the Irreversible Photosynthetic Thermal Thresholds

Our study highlights the importance of assessing thermal thresholds using consistent exposure duration and plant material type when comparing studies, as well as their relationship to functional re...

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Janisse Deluigi @janissedeluigi.bsky.social · Apr 3

My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Christiane Werner @chriswernerlab.bsky.social · Mar 31

Please RT: 2 PhD position @uni-freiburg.de investigating #reccurent #drought in #forest using in-situ #stableisotopes in #ecohydrology

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · Mar 26

🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....

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Giulio Curioni @giuliocurioni.bsky.social · Mar 25

New results from the #BIFoR #FACE experiment. Old-growth oak trees show signs of reduced water usage under elevated CO2, but also strong interannual variability, whilst "ghost" trees use less water than those in other treatments. Full details here: doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
@sequick.bsky.social 🧪

Water usage of old-growth oak at elevated CO2 in the FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) of climate change

Abstract. Predicting how increased atmospheric CO2 levels will affect water usage by whole, mature trees remains a challenge. The present study investigates diurnal (i.e. daylight) water usage of oaks...

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

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Adriano Losso @adri-losso.bsky.social · Mar 12

Kicking off this Bluesky action with this recently published paper on mangroves, with @a-gthy.bsky.social and @profchoat.bsky.social

Key findings:
🍃 Foliar water uptake supports water potential recovery
🌊 Tides do not affect xylem sap composition

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Fascinating organisms!

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