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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks for sharing! This paper makes a very good point

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Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change - Stemkovski - 2025 - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Jul 25

🗞️New publication🗞️

How do neighbourhood diversity effects on tree growth change with climatic conditions?🌳🌲🔆🌧️

We adress this question in our new study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Liting Zheng.

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Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years - Nature Ecology & Evolution

How tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning vary along climatic gradients is unclear. Here, analysing data from 15 experimental forest sites, the authors show that tree growth responses to nei...

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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hot off the press 🔥 New Ecological Monographs paper shows why, when and how to include intraspecific trait variability to enhance functional diversity research. Huge shout out to Facundo Palacio for his vision and leadership. Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
#traits #functionaldiversity 📏🌐

Integrating intraspecific trait variability in functional diversity: An overview of methods and a guide for ecologists

Variability in traits within species (intraspecific trait variability; ITV) has attracted increased interest in functional ecology, as it can profoundly influence the detection of functional trait pa....

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Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social · Jul 7

Check out our new paper: Origin matters: mycorrhizal growth response and induced resistance to pathogens depend on mycorrhizal and pathogen source, where we show that mycorrhizal induced resistance occurs within native plant species 🌱 @newphyt.bsky.social

Origin matters: mycorrhizal growth response and induced resistance to pathogens depend on mycorrhizal and pathogen source

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are critical to native plant community ecology and influence plant invasions. Research has focused on nutritional benefits of AMF, although evidence shows that the...

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Journal of Vegetation Science @jvegsci.bsky.social · Jul 4

⬆️🌡️Increasing temperatures,☀️ drought,🐮🐑🚫 grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition amount to tough times for vulnerable dry grasslands. A three-decade long case study in Germany by Horka et al. gives us more insights on the changes these communities face.
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Diversity Increases but Community Specialists Decline Over Three Decades in Dry Grassland Communities of Central Germany

Aim Dry grasslands are vulnerable to climate and land-use change. Increasing temperatures, drought, grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition can all result in shifts in grasslands' taxonomic and fu...

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Jun 25

Looks like a familiar place from Popbio visit last year and portions haven’t got smaller!

Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Jun 16

Cool! And nice to learn what next door office neighbours are actually doing! Greetings from #Rhizosphere6

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Jun 7

Welcome back! You forgot to mention mosquitos!

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John D. Parker @johndparker.bsky.social · Jun 2

led by Cathy Fahey, we used #metabolomics in the #BiodiversiTREE experiment to show that chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth - Journal of Ecology #treedivnet besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chemically mediated plant–enemy interactions promote positive biodiversity effects on young tree growth

A large-scale tree diversity experiment reveals that early growth of trees is influenced by phytochemically mediated trophic interactions. Specifically, foliar chemical diversity is higher for trees ...

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 31

Looks delicious! Cool spring here - about a month till we get any berries!

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 30

Ever wondered how plant interactions with soil pathogens and mutualists may regulate both species co-existence and diversity-productivity relationships? It is complicated 📈📉 but we tried to put different threads together:

Nianxun Xi 席念勋 @nianxunxi.bsky.social · May 30

Excited to share our latest article that bridges species coexistence, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships and plant-soil feedbacks! 🎉🎉🎉

Trends in Ecology & Evolution @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · May 19

Online now: Plant–soil microbial interactions as modulators of species coexistence and productivity

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · May 30

🦠Research reveals that nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial & fungal communities, posing great challenges for an accurate evaluation of ecosystem functions under future global change scenarios 🧪🌍

Nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial and fungal communities along a precipitation gradient

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 30

Spring is in full swing and we had our traditional yearly botanical trip. Amazing variety and beauty in every habitat - from dessert-like heath to species-rich flooded meadow! 🤩

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 23

Barley roots are really hairy! 🤩Tempted to measure if varieties differ in root hair length and density, but how? If you have positive experience, please share your method with us!

Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 19

Today we had a new record: over 600 pots harvested in one day for a plant-soil feedback experiment with barley + soil leachate collection for 150 pots! 💪👏🥳 #AgroCropFuture project @kkoorem.bsky.social

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 8

We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833

Research Fellow in Plant Evolutionary Ecology (postdoc)

We are looking for a 2-year postdoctoral research fellow within the European Research Council project PlantSoilAdapt - “Eco-evolutionary dynamics in plant-soil interactions during land use transition:...

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · May 8

Global intraspecific trait variation in grasslands: intraspecific responses to local environment can change species trait rankings nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... @rjgriffin-nolan.bsky.social

Predicting global intraspecific trait variation of grasses

Plant traits are important for understanding community assembly and ecosystem processes, yet our understanding of intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is limited. This gap in our knowledge is partiall...

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · May 5

Out now by Wang et al. in Journal of Applied Ecology: 'Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services' besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services

This research highlights the role of tree functional strategies and soil microbial community composition in influencing the ecosystem services of subtropical forests, and provides important informati...

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · May 4

After every encounter with the current scientific publishing system

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Apr 3

Have you heard about the concept of dark diversity 🧙‍♀️? If not, find out what it is and how it can be used in the assessment of human impacts!

Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · Apr 2

Excited to announce our new paper, “Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity,” out today in Nature – and it’s open access! Huge global collaboration led by Meelis Pärtel 🌐@macroecologyut.bsky.social

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Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature

A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Mar 28

We were just as surprised when finding widespread AMF colonisation in several species described as non-mycorrhizal. Your study suggests it might not be just randomness! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FWYYRW...

Plant mycorrhizal status indicates partner selectivity in arbuscular mycorrhizal interaction networks

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Mar 28

Very intriguing findings - quite strong positive effect of AMF on presumably non-mycorrhizal plant!

Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · Mar 26

Most surprising discover of my career to date 😲. Most assume mustard plants do not associate w/ AMF. Our research shows that AMF promote invasive mustard growth without forming arbuscules 🤯. This may be a new pathway in which AMF can enhance plant growth 🍄🌱

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Boost Development of an Invasive Brassicaceae

We show that an invasive, “nonmycorrhizal” Brassicaceae (Alliaria petiolata) can be colonised by AMF, and that this boosts its growth and nutrition even in the absence of classic nutrient exchange ...

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Plant Evolutionary Ecology lab @plantecoevout.bsky.social · Mar 23

So nice! You should do it more often 😉

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · Mar 14

Very excited to see this work out by visiting PhD in my group Yuanhao Zhang exploring interactions between clonal plant integration and CMNs! Spoiler they interact in big ways! doi.org/10.1111/ppl....

Capacity to form common mycorrhizal networks reduces the positive impact of clonal integration between plants

Both clonal plant capabilities for physiological integration and common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can influence the distribution of nutrients and growth...

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