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

Linking drought strategy to climate of origin in a widespread C4 grass: hydraulic traits, xylem anatomy and stomatal behaviour in Themeda triandra Jacob et al. @vin-jacob.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Figure 1. Three-panel figure showing summer climate across the eight Australian Themeda triandra study populations. (A) Map of mean summer temperature (°C), with cooler areas shown in blue and warmer areas in yellow to red; study populations are marked by open circles and labelled. (B) Map of mean summer precipitation (mm), with lower precipitation shown in brown/orange and higher precipitation in blue; the same population locations are marked. (C) Scatterplot of mean summer precipitation against mean summer temperature for the eight populations, with points labelled by population. Populations span broad climatic gradients, ranging from approximately 16–32 °C in temperature and 70–430 mm in precipitation; mean summer temperature and precipitation were not significantly related.

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Amar @amarhss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Would anyone know what species of Eucalyptus this is? Possibly from #Australia. Is it Eucalyptus tereticornis (Forest Red Gum)? Someone has planted one near primary jungle & spiderhunters are enjoying the nectar. Trying to document this new food source. Thanks.

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's still 10 days to apply for this PhD opportunity (only open to Australia/New Zealand citizens unfortunately)

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

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University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Plant tissue lifespans: Solving a fundamental mystery in plant ecology". PhD opportunity for domestic (Australia/New Zealand) candidates, closes 30 September: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Do any of you have an AI policy document for your lab group clearly stating expectations regarding student / postdoc use of LLMs in background research, coding, writing, reviewing, etc? I'd be interested in a model as we develop one.

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John Manners @jmaus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A mind-bending application of AI and AI agents to develop and interrogate plant development and response networks by accessing all historical literature on plant gene functions. A staggering AI tour de force from the UQ node of @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience sciety.org/articles/act...

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FLASH-P: Turning decades of biology into accurate causal networks with AI agents

Mechanistic networks that encode causal regulatory logic can predict the effects of genetic and environmental perturbations but constructing them is a bottleneck in systems biology because the relevan...

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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social by Tiantian Pan and others incl. @ianjwright.bsky.social @profchoat.bsky.social: Fast growth comes at a cost: Fast-growing Eucalyptus are less drought-resistant, revealing a clear growth–survival trade-off. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Evidence for a trade‐off between growth rate and xylem embolism resistance in 22 Eucalyptus species

Examples of cross-sectional images of branchlets at 4× and 40×.

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Brendan Choat @profchoat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

PhD Scholarship to work in the beautiful Blue Mountains! Drought and heat stress responses of temperate forest trees growing across a broad environmental gradient Applications close June 30 Must be Australian citizen, permanent resident, or NZ citizen to be eligible. PS2026_034_CS0791892_HIE

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Job opportunity in Plant Science at Adelaide University in South Australia. Learn more at jobs.adelaide.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you are at #EGU2026, join us today for a fantastic line-up of talks and posters from the team🌱 📍BG1.11 (Orals): Room 1.85/86 📍BG3.3 (Orals): Room 1.15/16 📍Posters: Hall X1 Details🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @giulimeng.bsky.social

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Daniel Noble @danielwanoble.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Check out our new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social with a stellar crew of collaborators! We suggest a need for a systems modelling approach to predict the effects of extreme heat and propose a path forward on how we can do it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Soil phosphorus drives subcontinental patterns of carbon-isotope discrimination across Australia Alam et al. @awcheesman.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sampling site locations and transects across Australia included in this study.

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Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

New virtual issue in AJB 🌿All Functional Trait Handbooks, from the landmark Cornelissen et al. (2003) to the latest on reproductive traits, are now collected in one place. 20+ years of protocols for measuring plant traits across species, ecosystems & continents. All free to read. 🔗 buff.ly/zXlFjQx

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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We relaunch our seminar series! Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the ‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’ 24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

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Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We are searching for a PhD student! Are you curious and excited to unravel how #root #exudation varies between species, how this relates to the root economics space and if and how it explains ecosystem functioning and species distribution in #grasslands?

Conceptual graphic of the project aims. Depicted is a schematic of the root economics space (RES) with added exudation traits (Work Package 1: integrating exudates into the root economics space). The lower, brown-colored half of the background shows labels such as soil nutrients, soil pH, and soil moisture, with arrows (effects) pointing toward the RES (Work Package 2: environmental filtering of exudation strategies). The upper, green-colored half shows labels such as productivity, carbon cycling, greenhouse gas, and nutrient cycling, with arrows (effects) pointing from the RES toward this area (Work Package 3: effects of exudation strategies on ecosystem functions). Pictograms of a cow, a tractor, and a fertilizer bag signify land-use effects that mediate these interactions.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Trait–climate relationships in 454 eucalypt taxa: common garden vs field-derived trends Britton et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PIIQ56...

Geographical and climatic distribution of eucalypts in Australia.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles Xu et al. @huiyingxu.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QQQWKU...

The sensitivities of the theoretical model to climate and hydraulic traits.

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Dr Hannah Riskas @hanrisk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our new paper is officially out in Proceedings B! 🐜 It’s the first chapter from my PhD thesis, where we combined field mark-recapture with lab survival assays. Huge thank you and congrats to my co-authors, Kirk Stodola, Lily Leahy, Ian J. Wright, and Heloise Gibb. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hear from Lizzie Wandrag, a plant community ecologist with a focus on examining how biotic interactions affect and are affected by plant species’ and community response to global change 🌱🧪 🗓️ Tuesday 2 December 🕙 10-11am (AEST) / 11am-12pm (AEDT) 📍 Register: bit.ly/TPS-LW

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Talking Plant Science with Lizzie Wandrag. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Species interactions as drivers of plant community dynamics under global change. Species interactions, including mutualisms, competition and plant-soil feedbacks, govern patterns of coexistence, comm...

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Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

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Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Submit an abstract to our #EGU2026 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere"(meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...) @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.

PhD advert for Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success

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Dean Nicolle @deannicolle1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Currency Creek Arboretum open days for 2026 are now scheduled! The world's most diverse collection of eucalypts is only open to the public twice a year, at our biannual open days. Details here: www.dn.com.au/Currency_Cre...

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Mark Wong @markklwong.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Excited to share a PhD opportunity in my upcoming lab at The University of Sydney! Join an ARC-funded project on the ecology of ant invasions in 2026 🐜 🇦🇺 Live in Sydney, ant around Australia 🌍 Intl + Domestic applicants welcome markwongecology.com/join #PhD #Ecology #Biodiversity Pls share, thx 🙏

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Join — Sydney Functional Ecology

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Prof Braj Singh @prof-braj-singh.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management. More details below. The position will start next year. Please circulate and repost. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

📢New blog by Prof Colin Prentice. Why paleoclimate science matters now- and why ignoring our planet's history is no longer an option. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/what… #paleoclimate #climatechange #earthhistory

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 19/08/2025

New Article: "Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root–seed coordination" rdcu.be/eBmpX Global positive correlation between root diameter and seed size, driven by dual roles of arbuscular mycorrhiza in phosphorus uptake and pathogen defence.

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Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Wind and frost have surprisingly strong effects on global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness! Latitude, biome and taxonomy matter too. Other climate variables not so much. #trait research from international team including @lawrensack.bsky.social @westobymark.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

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Francis Nge @francisnge.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social Article is open access and can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Excited to share our new paper led by Tsinghua Uni ECR Zhang Han: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... New model based on eco-evolutionary optimality explains observed seasonal and spatial trends in stem respiration, implies stem CO2 efflux down by >25% by 2100, reducing land carbon emissions.

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Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback

The efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from woody stems, a proxy for stem respiration, is a critical carbon flux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, which increases with temperature on short timescales. Ho...

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Have you recently lost your academic job due to the political situation? Then this program is for you. Read more! www.monash.edu/research/eme...

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Excited to share this paper led by ECR Tiantian Pan: Adaptation in eucalyptus wood anatomy to site climate, just published in PCE. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Wonderful coauthors including @julianschrader.bsky.social and @deannicolle1.bsky.social e1.bsky.social #FunctionalTraits

cross-section of eucalyptus sapwood showing the arrangement of different cell types

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🚨We're #hiring! Join Plant Success as an Outreach Officer 🌱 Use your skills in science, education & engagement to inspire curiosity & connect with schools, students & communities. 📍 UQ St Lucia 🔗 bit.ly/PS-OO #Jobs #ScienceOutreach

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