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Akhil Murali @akhil-murali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great study on mountain invasion ecology by @mbuhaly.bsky.social @sylvia-haider.bsky.social and et al. 🌱🍃🛘🌳

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

eCOMET: an #Rstats package for evaluating metabolic diversity and enrichment from LC-MS/MS data to test ecological hypotheses from individuals to ecosystems Choi et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Gesellschaft für Ökologie e.V. @gfoesoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Meet our keynote speaker: Mahesh Sankaran! 🌍🌾 His research explores how climate change shapes tropical ecosystems, especially savannas & grasslands, and how ecological knowledge can support restoration. #NSOGfÖ2026 @nordicoikos.bsky.social

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/09/2026

A study using thousands of tree-ring sites around the world suggests that as the climate warms, more trees will experience growth constraints from dryness by 2100, limiting carbon sequestration. In PNAS: ow.ly/oI6k50ZMEbn

Douglas-fir, one of the studied tree species, shows growth suppression at both very high and very low vapor pressure deficits.

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In our new preprint we propose a way to measure and partition diversity by working directly on the distributions. If you wanna try this with your own data, we created functions for calculating diversity, partitioning it and visualizing distributions 📈 Check the functions: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 27/08/2026

Old-growth grasslands are slow to recover once destroyed. Characteristic plants of such grasslands are shorter and have smaller leaves with less nitrogen than plants in secondary grasslands, which are resource-acquisitive and more competitive. In PNAS: ow.ly/zOl950ZFVFu

A remnant of an old-growth prairie in Ohio. Stock photo.
CREDIT: Jim Palus

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🌿 New paper! The forest herb layer can account for up to 80% of plant diversity, yet remains understudied. I’m glad to have contributed to this Yale-led collaboration identifying 100 questions to advance forest herb-layer ecology. What did we miss? 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/08/2026

Tiny fat droplets in cat kidneys—whose function has been mysterious for more than a century—encase chemical calling cards unique to each feline, allowing these messages to remain stable long after the cats themselves have left the vicinity. Learn more: scim.ag/46deS5C

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 29/07/2026

Tropical forests can recover rapidly after disturbance, but certain old-growth specialist trees will be missing. A study in Costa Rica shows that low abundance and low seed production hold back these trees, suggesting targeted plantings could help. In PNAS: ow.ly/Shla50ZtWMN

A forest in Costa Rica. Stock photo.
CREDIT: Nora Connors Photography / Shutterstock.com

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Julian Lunow @julian-lunow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New article now online in Ecological Entomology @respublications.bsky.social. Forest beetle assemblages respond to changes in forest structural characteristics that are induced by management and tree dieback. 🪲🌳 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cofeuniwue.bsky.social

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

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When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Pia Bradler @piambr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our paper on how understorey vegetation responds to enhanced forest structure was just published @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We found an increase in alpha- and gamma-diversity driven by heterogeneity in light conditions at the landscape-scale 🌱🌳🥬 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Enhancing structural heterogeneity in managed forest landscapes promotes gamma but not beta diversity in understorey plant communities

Our findings highlight the benefits of enhancing structural heterogeneity for understorey plant diversity in managed forest landscapes. Specifically, management strategies that create a spatial mosai...

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🎧 OUT NOW 🌿 The new episode of iDiv’s #InsideBiodiversity asks a simple question: How are the plants doing? Ute Jandt & Helge Bruelheide (@unihalle.bsky.social) explain why greener landscapes can still lose specialist species — and what that means for conservation. 🔗 insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 12/06/2026

Honoring Madhav Gadgil, the pioneering Indian ecologist whose work advanced biodiversity conservation, citizen science, and indigenous rights. His work helped shape modern ecological research and people-centered environmental policy in India and beyond. Read more: ow.ly/MvTb50ZbgGF

PNAS – Honoring the life of Madhav Gadgil

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Julian Lunow @julian-lunow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Now online in @forestecosyst.bsky.social: By synthesising data from the @bexplo.bsky.social, we found that promoting a mosaic of forest management types while reducing overall management intensity could foster positive relationships between carbon stocks and arthropods. doi.org/10.1016/j.fe...

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Redirecting

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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Excited to share our new paper on how tree community resource economics shape soil food web multifunctionality across European forests! 🌲🌍 We quantified how energy flows through microbes, fungi, detritivores, herbivores and predators beneath the forest floor. rdcu.be/fhmF2

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Tree community resource economics control soil food web multifunctionality

Nature - Plant community properties affect ecosystem functioning via energy fluxes in food webs, with the leaf and root resource economics of dominant tree species controlling soil food web...

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Akhil Murali @akhil-murali.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Indeed! Congrats Winner🎉🎉 Much deserved :)

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