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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · 8d

🌿 Excited to share FAIRTraits!

A data set with 189,452 records of 180 quantitative #traits from 240 Mediterranean plant species, fully FAIR-compliant & openly available 📊🌐

🔗🔓 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Started back in 2013 when I was a MSc student, now a huge team effort 💪

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · Aug 29

In our new article with Rui-Ling Liu and Wen-Yong Guo in J. Ecol., we quantified how plant strategy scores derived from leaf traits (Pierce method) correlate with other plant traits and plant environmental preferences.
🔗 Open-access article: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
‪@journalofecology.bsky.social‬

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Aug 19

New Article: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root–seed coordination" rdcu.be/eBmpX

Global positive correlation between root diameter and seed size, driven by dual roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake and pathogen defence.

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations, Dina! Well deserved! 🥂🎉

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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · Jul 8

Last week’s campaign combined tech & teamwork!
Multispectral drone flights by Leyre Pedrós Pla (PhD student of Francesco de Bello) + trait sampling across all Prachatice grassland sites = 710 leaf samples processed in 2 days. Big thanks to the whole team! @jsegrestin.bsky.social #RemoteSensing

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Jul 8

Last week, we hosted Leyre (PhD w/ Francesco) who flew a drone equipped with a #multispectral camera over all our multi-site diversity plots 🚁

At the same time, we measured plant #traits across the entire gradient and… processed 710 leaf samples in just 2 days 😅

An intense but rewarding campaign 💪

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Jun 18

Then you might be interested in bsky.app/profile/ap.b...

It allows you to bidge your Bluesky account to the Fediverse!

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Jun 16

🌿 Testing the ‘afterlife' effect 👻 within species 🌿

Do Carex populations from different environments decompose differently? 🍂

✅ Yes – different populations had different decomposability
🤏 But species identity mattered much more
❗ And leaf #traits didn’t reliably predict decay rates

Szilvia Neumann @szilviamneumann.bsky.social · Jun 13

So excited to see the first chapter of my PhD published! 🎉

We conducted a leaf decomposition experiment on closely related Carex species, and investigated the extent of trait differences within and between species 🍃🍂

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Intraspecific differences in leaf decomposition and associated traits in closely related Carex species: a microcosm experiment - Oecologia

Litter decomposition is a fundamental process in carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. In a microcosm experiment we investigated the determinants of leaf decomposition with considerat...

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lucrecialipoma.bsky.social @lucrecialipoma.bsky.social · Jun 11

I am very happy to spend some weeks visiting the @plantecolcb.bsky.social group! After reading a lot of papers from this experiment I finally have the opportunity to visit the place and meet the people 😊

Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · Jun 11

lucrecialipoma.bsky.social, a researcher at IMBIV (CONICET, Argentina) and assistant professor at the National University of Córdoba, is now visiting our working group. She arrived at the peak of the field season and had already joined the harvest of the biomass from Šuspa's experiment.

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · May 29

📰Published📰 Seedling fate in wet meadows: success fueled by mowing, not fertilizer 🌱

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Seedling fate in wet meadows: success fueled by mowing, not fertilizer

Terezie Rychtecká, Pavel Fibich, Jan Lepš This is a plain language summary for a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Regeneration from seed plays an important role in grass…

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · May 28

A 🆕 #OpenAccess Review in "Ecological Monographs": 8 key limitations in how we link species traits to ecosystem structure & function, and a to-do list to push the field forward

📄Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait-based ecology
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Scheme representing and connecting the eight SFs (shortfalls) considered in this review.

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · May 26

🎤 Grateful for the opportunity to speak as a keynote at #PopBio2025 in beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿✨

It was a true pleasure to share my work and connect with such a thoughtful community 🌍

Huge thanks to the organizers for putting together such a fantastic event! 👏🏼🎉🌱

#Ecology #ScientificCommunity

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · May 18

A nice review to add to the next steps in #TraitBaesdEcology literature - "Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology" 🌐🧪🌾https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecm.70018

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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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · May 16

Group of "trait ecologists" published a large paper on the state of the art of the discipline in Ecological Monographs. doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... - There are four authors in the team from our group, including the leading author, Francesco de Bello.

Scheme representing and connecting the eight SFs (shortfalls) considered in this review. See also Table 1. We distinguishtraits sensu stricto from specific response functions (SRFs) and specific effect functions (SEFs) as, respectively, the potential responsiveness ofspecies to given environmental conditions and the potential effect on given ecosystem functions. For graphical purposes, we representdifferent species (from 1 to n) belonging to different branches of a (unresolved) phylogenetic tree. We represent trait variability acrossindividuals within a species as black circles with varying sizes depending on their values. A similar approach is used to represent SRF,fitness, and SEF values (respectively gray circles, gray squares, and white circles). Abiotic and biotic filtering is represented as a dotted lineby which certain organisms either become part of, or not, of a local community, based on their trait values. The overlap between trait andSEF values (represented by the mathematical overlap symbol) controls community effects on ecosystems and other trophic levels. The studyof these connections across multiple regions (represented as overlapping images of the scheme for “Region” 1 to n) is the basis of the globalscaling related to SF 8. The drawing of the world was taken from Freepik.com.

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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.

📄🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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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...

doi.org

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · May 9

New BEF research in "Ecology" - this time, examining carbon dynamics 👀

Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · May 9

🌿Just published in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social! 🎉

Using long-term removal experiments, we empirically tested how redundancy and complementarity among plant species shape seasonal #carbon dynamics in a natural grassland 🌐

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

#Biodiversity 🌿 #CarbonCycle 🔁 #Grasslands 🌾

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · May 9

🌿Just published in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social! 🎉

Using long-term removal experiments, we empirically tested how redundancy and complementarity among plant species shape seasonal #carbon dynamics in a natural grassland 🌐

🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

#Biodiversity 🌿 #CarbonCycle 🔁 #Grasslands 🌾

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Julien Barrere @jbarrere.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨
🌱🔥We're offering a funded PhD position at
@inrae-paca.bsky.social
to investigate how tree species functional strategies and fire recurrence shape the resilience of Mediterranean forests and their ecosystem services. 🌍
📩 To apply (in French) : jobs.inrae.fr/ot-25708

Evaluation de la résilience des peuplements et des services écosystémiques associés au changement de régime de feu en fonction de la stratégie d’adaptation au feu des espèces

ContexteDans les forêts européennes, les régimes de perturbations évoluent également, avec une augmentation des incendies, des tempêtes et des épidémies d'insectes (Patacca et al. 2022). L'augmentatio...

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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · Apr 2

New global study of dark diversity by #DarkDivNet led by Meelis Pärtel, where Aleš, Maruška, and Eva are co-authors with the dataset from Novohradské Hory, is now out in
@nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Map from the article Pärtel et al. 2025, Nature.

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Czech Academy of Sciences @czechacademy.bsky.social · Feb 18

#conference | POPBIO 2025: 37th Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)

❗ Deadline for abstracts: 31 Mar 2025

➡️ popbio2025.ibot.cas.cz

Org. by @popecolibot.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social, @sciencecharles.bsky.social

Poster for the POPBIO 2025 Conference (37th Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)) taking place 22–24 May 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic. Abstract deadline is 31 March 2025. Link to register in post.

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Feb 17

🌿 It’s a great opportunity to reshare my poster from #IAVS2024 in Madeira!

This poster provides a great summary of our unified framework for understanding the stability of ecological communities. A useful starting point for those who want to explore it!

🔗 Full paper: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Feb 17

🌱 I’m excited to announce that I’ll be presenting at PopBio 2025 in Prague! 🌍🌐

I’ll be discussing the drivers of stability in ecological communities and sharing new results from long-term biodiversity data.

🗓️ May 2025 | More info: popbio2025.ibot.cas.cz

#PopBio2025 #Ecology #FunctionalEcology

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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · Feb 5

New field season has been started! We removed the ingrowth cores placed to measure belowground biomass in permanent plots at Ohrazení.

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Plant ecology in České Budějovice @plantecolcb.bsky.social · Jan 31

A new article from Ohrazení is out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jules Segrestin @jsegrestin.bsky.social · Jan 30

Congrats to Clara Garcia 🎉 for her first leading-author paper 📝 and to the students from the Creative Publishing module 📚 for this great work! 📝👏