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Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · 1d

Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
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Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions

Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · 5d

Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
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Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients

Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....

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Giacomo Puglielli @gpuglielli.bsky.social · 7d

Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means?

With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · 23d

Just collected the data from our loggers in the cliffs of la Pedriza for MIREN Rocks! Excited to finally have our cliff vegetation and microclimate data together

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 25

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits

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

The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Ecology & Evolution

It is unclear whether the linkage between tree species richness and insect herbivory is consistent across climates and forest types. Here, the authors analyse data from forest biodiversity experiments...

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Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · Aug 15

🔥 Fires continue to rage in Portugal and Spain today, with thick plumes of smoke and pyrocumulonimbus drifting northward.

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Francisco M. Azcárate @fmazcarate.bsky.social · Aug 15

¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto?
No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13

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Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social · Jul 22

What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments”
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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

And if you want to know more about foliar endophytic fungi 🍄, keep an eye on @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social 's work on the topic (7/7)

Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

With this, we show that trait identity and intraindividual variability relate to foliar endophytic fungal communities. This suggests that these plant-fungi interactions are closely related to plant functioning and evidence the ecological relevance of intraindividual trait variability (6/7)

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

Last, the results for the phylogenetic signal indicate that fungi from the same class respond more similarly to functional traits. This suggests that some aspects of habitat specificity of leaf endophytes are conserved across deep evolutionary lineages (5/7)

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

The results also show that the diversity of some groups of fungi is related to leaf intraindividual variability, meaning that higher diversity of leaf phenotypes within the same crown relates to a higher diversity of organisms associated to that tree 🌿☘️🍃🍂🍁 (4/7)

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

We found that a leaf "fast" strategy (characterized by high values of traits such as SLA or leaf P and low values of leaf C:N) relates to a higher diversity of different groups of endophytic fungi, especially in the case of Basidiomycota (3/7)

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

To explore how foliar endophytic fungi 🍄 (which reside within the tissues of leaves in plants) relate to leaf phenotype, we merged data on endophytic fungi (from doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...) and plant functional traits (from doi.org/10.1111/1365...) collected on the same leaves in 8 tree species (2/7)

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 New paper led by @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social‬ 🍃 We found that the communities of foliar endophytic fungi are driven by leaf traits and intraindividual trait variability 🧵
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@treedi.bsky.social
@geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social
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Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment

Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associa...

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Geobotany at MLU Halle @geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 Doctoral Student Paper Alert 🚨
🌿🍄 What shapes fungal endophyte diversity inside tree leaves? We found that leaf traits, both their average values and variation within a single tree, strongly influence foliar fungal endophyte communities. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment

Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associa...

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland

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#EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms

We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning.

🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs

👇 A short thread

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Charlotte Møller @cmoeller.bsky.social · Jun 11

It was so great to finally meet you in person, Pablo! Thank you for joining our session 🌿

Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week I talked about trait variation at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social . I enjoyed presenting in a room full of friends and researchers I admire. Thanks to @cmoeller.bsky.social and Martí March-Salas for putting intraspecific and intraindividual variation into the spotlight of this conference

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week I talked about trait variation at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social . I enjoyed presenting in a room full of friends and researchers I admire. Thanks to @cmoeller.bsky.social and Martí March-Salas for putting intraspecific and intraindividual variation into the spotlight of this conference

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jun 2

‪Tomorrow at 11:00 I'll be talking about trait variation in tree diversity experiments at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social meeting (TSD-4). The session will have a strong component of intraspecific and intraindividual variation, so don't miss it if you're a fan of this thrilling topic

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Alba Anadon-Rosell @albaanadon.bsky.social · Jun 1

This year, #intraindividual variability will rock it at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social!! From a keynote talk by @cmhmaliani.bsky.social to a specific session Mon-Tue! I will talk about intraindividual trait #coordination in #tundra #clonal #shrubs on Tue morning. So much looking forward to it!🌱🌿🌲

Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · May 31

Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers

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Joaquín Hortal @jhortal.bsky.social · May 21

A new paper from Indra deCastro-Arrazola shows that aridity filters dung beetles both in space & time along the Sahara’s edge. Their traits & lineages shift continuously in a similar way in a transect towards the desert and between the wet and dry seasons. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social
#NICED 🌐🧪👇

Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara

Ecological communities under extreme environments are shaped by a balance of environmental filtering and coexistence mechanisms that result in a series of assembly rules. Although there is abundant e...

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · May 15

Trait-based #ecology has flourished, but key limitations still hinder progress. We identify 8 major shortfalls, from trait definitions 📏 to ecosystem scaling 🔄🌐, and propose paths forward for a more robust and integrative trait-based framework.

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Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology

Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three...

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