🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨
Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change.

2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025.

🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...

Happy #solstice! Today, beech trees start to decide whether to produce bumper seed crops next year, or to skip reproduction next year. It is a marker for growth and phenology processes. @micbog.bsky.social talked to The Guardian about how it works:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/3: New paper: how do masting plants optimise the delay in reproduction? Having gaps (years) between reproductive events starves seed predators, increasing fitness. But they are also missed opportunities for reproduction. How do plants fine-tune the length of the time gaps to maximise fitness?

Paper out!
@canelotara.bsky.social @micbog.bsky.social
@irnase.bsky.social

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Ten odcinek zbiera same dobre recenzje. Jeśli ktoś jeszcze nie słuchał, bardzo polecam. #podcastNCN jest dostępny na YouTube, w Spotify i Apple Podcast.

Phenology week is coming @usa-npn.bsky.social! March 18, I'll be talking about Quercus Quest campaign for eastern North American white oaks, w/ Kim Pegram on Desert Refuge: Monarchs and Milkweeds and Nicholas Dietschler on Pest Patrol.

Info and registration below:

www.usanpn.org/news/article...

New research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!

We propose intensifying livestock predation on infested acorns by allowing earlier livestock foraging. This management strategy would increase the availability of acorns, boosting farm capacity.

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Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Praxis-Empfehlungen: Wie sammle ich Eicheln, damit die genetische Vielalt des Saatguts möglichst hoch ist? Resultate aus dem @wslresearch.bsky.social SeedOpt Projekt. Anwendbar auf viele andere Hauptbaumarten.

Jetzt auf @waldwissen.bsky.social

www.waldwissen.net/de/waldwirts...

Forests in the western interior of the U.S. are not regenerating fast enough to keep pace with climate change, wildfires, insects, and disease, according to a new @natclimchange.bsky.social study led by Colorado State and co-authored by ESPM professor Miranda Redmond. nature.berkeley.edu/...

Breeding populations were younger in years that followed a higher beech crop 🌳🌳 – fitting evidence that this increases juvenile survival - and the relationship between masting and age structure was stronger when only assessing populations local to beech data collection. 5/n

Check out the new paper in Forest Ecology and Management on seed production monitoring methods, led by stellar @foestjessie.bsky.social!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Warmer summers are causing European beeches to produce seed more often, depleting the trees’ stored resources—an indirect effect of climate change that is threatening the sustainability of Europe’s most widespread forest tree. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our paper that showed alternations in masting patterns are leading to growth decline in European beech is now in @PNASNews, as a part of highlighted content; check out that summary! :)

Funded by @NCN_PL

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very pleased that my latest paper with @altagliabue.bsky.social and Sandy Thomalla in @commsearth.bsky.social is published. You can check it out here: bit.ly/3EjYYvG

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

#Papermills to psucie nauki na poziomie systemowym. Jeśli większość naukowców nie będzie dążyć do wyższych standardów etycznych, wyższej jakości i rzetelności badań, to stoimy na przegranej pozycji – mówi w wywiadzie dla FA @michaltomza.bsky.social

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A remark from a referee ~40 yr back prompted this study. I launched it under the (later seen) wrong premise that it would last ~15 yr. But my marked plants lived much longer than anticipated, and it took me 38 yr to complete it. Here are the results. I defeated my plants in the race for survival.

@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social talking about how warming affects masting and how that cascades to growth in European beech.

@britishecolsoc.bsky.social