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Marc Buée 🇨🇵 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @mrmbuee.bsky.social · 3d

Soil phosphate availability drives the shifts in the mycorrhizal types in the dual mycorrhizal Quercus serrata.
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Soil phosphate availability drives shifts between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dual mycorrhizal plant Quercus serrata

Dual mycorrhizal plants are associated with both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi that differ in cost and effectiveness for nutrient acquisition. Little is known about env.....

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · 29d

New paper out led by Boaz Himan: 14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status - Plant, Cell & Environment - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... presenting novel insights from a Swiss alpine treeline 🌲⛰️🌡️📈

14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status

Trees along an elevation gradient near the Alpine treeline used carbon fixed within the last two years to grow their needles and branches, and carbon fixed two to ten years ago to grow their fine roo....

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Soil water limitation intensity alters nitrogen cycling at the plant-soil interface in Scots pine mesocosms - Plant and Soil

Background and aim More intense episodes of drought are expected to affect terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycling by altering N transformation rates, the functioning of soil microorganisms, and plant N upta...

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Aug 27

With @martinhartmann.bsky.social and other great scientists not on bsky Grateful to the SAE group at ETH Zurich and the @snsf.ch which facilitated and funded this work.

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Aug 27

Happy to see this paper published! We used a mesocosm platform to study how soil water limitation intensity alters the cycling of nitrogen at the tree-soil interface rdcu.be/eCB3L

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Avni Malhotra @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment

A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

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Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · May 20

Please delight yourselves in the magic of belowground research! wur.yuja.com/V/Video?v=89... Amazing video produced by the team of @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social from Wageningen University

Riddles in the Dark

In the dense and biodiverse San Emilio ForestGEO plot of Costa Rica, every tree tells a story. Not just above ground, but deep below the surface. Discover how different trees adapt to their environmen...

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Jun 15

Congratulations!

Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · May 12

Beautiful!

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · May 5

Take note, Dutch government. Von der Leyen is right. We are nowhere without free, open, funded science.

Eva Hyldgaard 🇩🇰 Dane for Democracy @evahyldgaard.bsky.social · May 5

Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today:

“Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.”

At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions.

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Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social · Apr 14

The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!

Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · Apr 14

@unicampoficial.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @anjarammig.bsky.social spread the word (:

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Meike Katharina Heuck @heuckmeike.bsky.social · Apr 29

It was a great opportunity to present at #EGU25.

Thanks to @loutsi.bsky.social, @plantsoilemily.bsky.social, Tessa Camenzind and the other co-conveners for organising such a nice session!

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you for your excellent contribution @heuckmeike.bsky.social

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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · Apr 29

check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Ana Bastos @anabastos.bsky.social · Apr 24

Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social

Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences

EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...

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jen-zhenli.bsky.social @jen-zhenli.bsky.social · Apr 7

New Paper [email protected]
Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications

Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

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IRNASA-CSIC @irnasa.bsky.social · Mar 8

🚨 Talent in #science should have no gender, but the data speaks for itself. On #8M, our staircase reminds us that #equality is still a challenge. We climb steps toward a future where women scientists have the same opportunities. 💜👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #IRNASA

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Montpellier European Ecotron @ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social · Mar 18

📢 #Postdoc Opportunity! 🌱🔬
Join an #Ecotron project on soil #carbon sequestration @ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social

🔗 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

📍 Work with @alex-ecology.bsky.social & @cbiogeo.bsky.social

📢 Please share!

#Soil #Biochar #Weathering #AcademicJobs #JobOffer #CarbonScience

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 7

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · Feb 26

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com.

The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics.

Open access:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Guntars Martinson @gomartinson.bsky.social · Feb 27

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Tree Diversity Increases Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Above—But Not Belowground in a Tropical Forest Experiment

We examined the potential of mixed-species planted forests compared to monospecific forests to act as a nature-based solution to climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. By analysing m...

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Emily Solly @plantsoilemily.bsky.social · Feb 19

I agree! Reading it now and I adore it

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · Jan 20

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Jan 18

I have uptaken
the NO3-
that was in
the B horizon

and which
you were probably
saving
for spring

Forgive me
it was nutritious
so nitrogenous
and oxidized

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