Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

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 ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

2 27 59

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · Aug 7

5 7

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come find the @esa-sw.bsky.social at #esa2025!!

5 10

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌲🌡️🪾

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Aug 12

In addition to our three awesome @esa-sw.bsky.social events tomorrow (Wed Aug 12), two of my lab members will be presenting some of our first lab research findings!
Come check them out! #ecophys #southwest #ESA2025

@biancazorger.bsky.social @rebeccasenft.bsky.social

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congratulations Ilaine!!!

1

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · May 29

Excited to share our new paper led by Tsinghua Uni ECR Zhang Han: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... New model based on eco-evolutionary optimality explains observed seasonal and spatial trends in stem respiration, implies stem CO2 efflux down by >25% by 2100, reducing land carbon emissions.

Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback

The efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from woody stems, a proxy for stem respiration, is a critical carbon flux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, which increases with temperature on short timescales. Ho...

www.science.org

10 25

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 25

Very happy to be part this wonderful group! 🤍

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · May 24

Official Aparecido Lab photo unlocked!! These people make work feel less like work every day ❤️ @uofubiology.bsky.social #plantecophys #universityofutah

1

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

4 130 340

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · May 21

Apply for the 2025 ESA Southwest Chapter travel awards!! Open to all early-career ecologists working in the Southwest US and Northern MX that are attending ESA 2025! Please share

ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · May 21

Applications are now open for the 2025 ESA Southwest Travel awards for ecologists and members of our Chapter presenting or just attending ESA this year!
If you fit the description or know someone who does, apply and share!
Looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Southwest Ecologist Awards ($700 travel award)

We are excited to announce the 2025 Southwest Ecologist Travel award ($700)! Funding will be awarded to three early career (students and post-graduates) and/or federal agency ecologists whose work is ...

docs.google.com

3 4

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 19

New paper 📣🏔️ In tropical montane grassland, an increase of 3°C in temperature by 2100 will increase the proportion of species with entire leaves. In contrast, toothed leaves have higher stomatal conductance rates, making them vulnerable to atmospheric drought. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

3 9

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 17

Thank you Paulo! Glad to see this paper finally published. Thank you for sharing 😄

1

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 16

Thank you Martjin!

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 16

@ilainematos.bsky.social
Luiz Bondi, Yan C. Moraes, Yan Nunes, Thiago A. Amorim and Bruno Rosado.

1

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · May 16

My PhD paper is out!

We showed that both forest and grassland are vulnerable to drought, but the vulnerability is attributable to different reasons: higher sensitivity to drought in forests (narrower #SM50) and lower fog exposure in grasslands. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

3 2 15

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Dryland Plant Ecophysiology Lab @hultinelab.bsky.social · May 10

New paper published by Wilder et al. in the journal Global Change Biology reveals how recent anomalous drought and heat events are impacting native succulents in the Sonoran Desert. The paper can be accessed at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

7 18

Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · Apr 25

Congrats, Luiza! You did it. Your students are lucky to have you as professor 😀

1

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Apr 22

Atmospheric CO2 has passed 430 parts per million.

The last time atmospheric CO2 was at 430 ppm was during the ancient Pliocene Era, three to five million years ago, and humans didn’t exist.

35 510 1K

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · Apr 12

The Trump administration has removed protections on thousands of acres of land in Nevada and New Mexico. The administration hopes to encourage logging, oil, and mineral mining in the region. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c...

2 7 17

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

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

www.nature.com

13 33

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

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...

@charlottegrossiord.bsky.social
@wslresearch.bsky.social

4 14 48

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Apr 5

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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

2 5

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Mar 24

A busy day for the Aparecido lab! @biancazorger.bsky.social taught my Ecosystem Ecology class on warming effects on ecosystems. Later, lab undergrads, Tucker (mentored by @rebeccasenft.bsky.social) and Sydney, presented on their ug research at the College of Science res symp. Proud of this crew!! 😎🤩

2 7

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Mar 11

Excited to share our detailed and comprehensive protocol on leaf clearing that has been developed throughout the years and across institutions. Enjoy! :)

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 11

A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks

New in #AppsPlantSci by Niewiadomski, @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social, Blonder, et al

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantscience #herbaria #PlantEvolution #PlantEcology

A cleared leaf image of Rinorea crenata (Violaceae) prepared using the protocol described in Niewiadomski et al. The image shows a leaf with its veins colored with a red stain.

8 14

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · Feb 13

Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts (Viviane de Araújo Brito Fernandes, Fernanda Santos Farnese, Brenner Ryan Arantes, et. al.) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026 @ASPB #PlantScience

16 24

Reposted by Bianca Butter Zorger

Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Dec 6

As we close the semester and 2024, I want to acknowledge the amazing work of the undergrads in our lab.
Lucy, Sydney, Tucker, Brandt and Cindy have been outstanding! As students that had no prior research experience, they learned quickly and pulled thru in presenting… (1/3)

1 2 3