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Artemis Anest

@arteanest.bsky.social
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🌿Assistant Professor at @umontpellier.bsky.social & @umramap.bsky.social🌿 🌍Evolutionary ecologist | Plant architecturist🌳 🌵Exploring biodiversity of plant forms & functions🌸

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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was very honoured to receive the New Phytologist Prize in Plant Biology for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 ATBC Annual Meeting 🌿 I hope the research I presented will inspire new research directions in plant biology and conservation. Paper coming soon!🌸
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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to @arteanest.bsky.social for her New Phytologist Prize in Plant Biology for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 ATBC Annual Meeting in Xishuangbanna, China. @umontpellier.bsky.social
https://tropicalbiology.org/blog/2026/08/30/atbc-2026-best-presentation-award-winners/
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Go and grow: coordinated evolution of vegetative and reproductive traits facilitated niche diversification in Thymelaeaceae’ by Hugo Bonnaudet et al. is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/8) 👉 doi.org/rh3j @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social
Go and grow: coordinated evolution of vegetative and reproductive traits facilitated niche diversification in Thymelaeaceae
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The researchers asked two key questions: 🌱 Are reproductive and vegetative traits linked throughout evolution? 🌎 Did these traits help species disperse across continents and establish in new environments? (3/8)
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
By analysing genomic data alongside plant architecture, fruit traits and global climate and distribution data, they reconstructed how these traits evolved over millions of years. (4/8)
Figure showing how did growth forms and fruits evolve in Thymelaeaceae. This evolutionary tree traces changes in plant architecture and fruit type across 88 species. Each coloured branch represents the most likely ancestral trait, revealing how different growth forms evolved over time. Bright, fleshy fruits (⭐) evolved independently at least nine times, while the dotted circles mark major periods of global environmental change.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One surprising result: 🍒 Red, fleshy fruits evolved multiple times, but they didn't drive long-distance dispersal between continents as might be expected. Instead, they greatly increased the likelihood of species shifting into new ecological niches. (5/8)
Figure showing how did Thymelaeaceae spread and adapt over time. This evolutionary tree reconstructs the most likely ancestral habitats and geographic distributions of 88 species. Coloured branches show the environments their ancestors likely occupied, while the outer ring indicates whether they lived in open (yellow) or closed (black) habitats.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Meanwhile, changes in plant architecture were closely linked to habitat. 🌿 Different growth forms were associated with different levels of canopy openness, and major shifts between biomes often coincided with changes in plant architecture. (6/8)
Figure showing how different environments favour different plant strategies. This figure compares the diversity of growth forms and fruit types across habitats and climates in the Thymelaeaceae family. (a) Fruit types across different plant architectures. (b) Growth forms in open versus closed habitats. (c) Growth forms across five climatic and environmental niches. (d) Fruit types in open versus closed habitats. (e) Fruit types across the five environmental niches. Together, these comparisons reveal how plant architecture and fruit traits are associated with different ecological conditions and evolutionary strategies.
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Together, the findings suggest that different traits responded to different evolutionary pressures: 🐦 Reproductive traits were shaped mainly by dispersal agents. ☀️ Vegetative traits evolved primarily in response to environmental conditions. (7/8)
Figure showing ethe volutionary history of fruit types, plant growth forms and habitats across major lineages of the Thymelaeaceae. The numbered events (1–9) highlight key steps in the evolutionary and biogeographic history of the family, including changes in fruit type, plant architecture and habitat. These include (1) the origin of Thymelaeaceae; (2) the emergence of Thymelaeoideae, accompanied by a shift from fruits that split open to dry fruits that remain closed; (3) the emergence of the African lineage, which retained ancestral characteristics; (4) the diversification of the Lasiosiphon group alongside shifts from humid tropical forests to more open, humid savannas and changes in plant architecture; (4′) the divergence of the Eurasian lineage, associated with changes in plant architecture and a transition from humid forests to more open, semi-arid habitats; (5) further diversification associated with a shift towards open, semi-arid environments; (6) the colonization of South America from Africa, accompanied by the evolution of bright, fleshy fruits; (7) the colonization of Australia by the Pimelea group, followed by a shift towards arid environments; (8) the colonization of North America by the Dirca lineage, accompanied by a transition to temperate habitats; and (9) the diversification of the Wikstroemia group, followed by its expansion into Australasia and further changes in plant architecture and habitat. Paleomaps were generated using the Mollweide projection following the model of Merdith et al. (2021) with the R package RGPlates (Kocsis et al. 2024).
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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Rather than evolving in parallel, reproductive and vegetative traits followed coordinated, but independent, evolutionary pathways, helping Thymelaeaceae diversify into habitats around the world.(8/8) 👉 doi.org/rh3j @arteanest.bsky.social #PlantScience #Evolution #AoBpapers #Biogeography
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Go and grow: coordinated evolution of vegetative and reproductive traits facilitated niche diversification in Thymelaeaceae
AbstractBackground and Aims. Macroevolutionary studies of species-rich plant lineages have often focused on processes behind either their large distributio
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Part2🌿We took the students to the Xishuangbanna #Tropical Botanical Garden to discover the incredible plant diversity of Yunnan, China! Huge 💚 again to our wonderful sponsors @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social #ATBC2026 #TropicalBiodiversity
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What a wonderful workshop we organised together with Niña Quibod at #ATBC2026 on #Outreach for tropical #biodiverisity 🥬Thanks to all the participants for your creativity. Huge thanks to our sponsors💚 @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social & CharmEU
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The complex interaction between mammalian herbivores, climate, soil and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms Souza Ferreira et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evolution of spinescence in mimosoid legumes.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What makes some plants spiny while others aren't? 🌵 #iDivResearch published in New Phytologist shows plant spininess is shaped by both past and present browsing mammals, as well as climate and soil conditions. Even extinct megafauna have left a lasting imprint on today's vegetation. Link in comments
A giraffe feeding on a spiny acacia tree.
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🌿 Join our webinar: outreach on natural history collections Fri, June 5th 2:30PM (Paris time)! We'll introduce initiatives promoting collections with researchers, postdocs and students from @umontpellier.bsky.social, @trinityresearch.bsky.social #Biodiversity #ScienceOutreach #Fossils #Herbarium
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany
Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England. Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#Viewpoint: From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species Volaire et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 6 Hypothesized trade-offs across vascular species illustrating a water use economics framework.
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We invite contributions for our open session at ATBC2026: Education and outreach initiatives for tropical biodiversity. 🍃We are seeking researchers & students at all career stages to present outreach initiatives related to tropical biodiversity & conservation.🍃 forms.gle/PmQSkXvk8kMc... #ATBC2026
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Happy #FossilFriday from this smiling fossil bundle of vascular tissues! It belongs to a cladoxylopsid, an extinct group related to today's spenopsids (horsetails) & ferns 🌿⛏️ This specimen comes from Southern France & dates from the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago. #paleobotany
Close up of a section in a fossil plant with preserved tissues, showing details of a vascular byndle with xylem (conducting) cells
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Structural and physiological constraints on arborescent lycopsid establishment and growth nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 3 Sigillaria approximata tracheids in transverse section from proximal (a–c) and distal (d–f) in the trunk.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5 #paleobotany #botany @umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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Production of root suckers in Glossopteridales from the late Permian of Antarctica
Premise The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that dominated mid to high latitude floras of the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian (298–251 million years ago). Reconstruct.....
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Kunming #BotanicalGarden (CN) is absolutely amazing!✨ Beyond safeguarding thousands of species through living collections, it's actively involved in the regeneration of extremely #rareplants by eventually climbing 80-meter #trees to collect #seeds and saving species from #extinction💚 #conservation
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for @petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🍃 Science out of the lab and into the night 🌙 Honoured to present our research on plant diversity at #MEDNIGHT ! #PlantDiversity #PlantScience #PublicEngagement #ResearchOutreach
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Artémis Anest à la Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025
YouTube video by Genopolys
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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿
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Branches and cones of Sequoites, a cretaceous conifer closely related to cypress family (Cupressaceae)

Asterophyllites equisetiformis, aka leaves of the lycopod relative Calamites, a tree-size plant that live during the Carboniferous in what's now Europe.

Reproductive structure of Runcaria heinzelinii, showing spiraling strings, leaves and an upright structure at the center
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible. 'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026. Images © RBG Kew.
A chinese fan palm, drawn in high levels of detail. Attributed to Vishnuprasad c. 1825Papaver falconer, a poppy. Artist unknown, 1840Painting of a sunflower. Its petals are bright yellow and it has circular black centre. artist unknown, c 1795.
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just back from the Sino-French International Research Network on Biodiversity (SF-IRN-B) Summer School held in Yunnan, China🌿 Huge thanks to CAS, @cnrs.fr, & organizers for this exceptional event! Congrats to all participants for your curiosity! #Biodiversity #Yunnan #SummerSchool #ClimateChanges
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Saving Wildcats @saveourwildcats.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
When it's been a really long day of parenting... You're doing a great job, Mama 🧡
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏 If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I had the pleasure of taking part in The Mediterranean Researchers' Night #MEDNIGHT and organizing a workshop with 🍃Murielle Droissart @plantnet.bsky.social 🌴Anne-Laure Decombeix @aldpaleo.bsky.social 🌿Gaëlle Viennois Grateful to Genopolys and to all who joined!🌸 #WomenInScience #Botany
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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Hugo Bonnaudet @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive #botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae
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Artemis Anest @arteanest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🌱Budding plant architects 🌱 @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺 @umontpellier.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social #PlantArchitecture #Botany
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Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC @ebdonana.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
#EBDSeminars 🔸Camila Benavides-Frías (Social-Ecological Systems Institute SESI) 🔹Food comes from agroecosystems: the role of agriculture for the reproductive of life 📅Thursday, 18th September. 13h CEST Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGf...
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Renske Onstein @renskeonstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Very proud of @yuansoup.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter published- a synthesis that started due to travel restrictions from COVID-19 but turned out to be very insightful, highlighting the botanical consequences of defaunation 🦜🦣🥑🥭
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Guillaume Papuga @guillaume-papuga.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Did you know that wild plant harvesting is an ancient practice that remains vital—from medicine to food and cosmetics? 🌿 Yet its ecological impact is overlooked. In a new study, we assessed 692 species in France (12% of the flora) to uncover drivers and conservation gaps. #WildPlants #Conservation
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UMR AMAP @umramap.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New paper online by @vincyane-badouard.bsky.social et al. @umramap.bsky.social in Agriculture and Forest Meteorology: "Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest
LiDAR makes it possible to describe the 3D structure of the forest, from which species habitats can be accurately estimated, over large areas at fine …
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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.
Two-panel illustration showing sparse trees in a Cretaceous landscape (bottom) and densely forested Paleocene landscape.
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