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marioblancosanchez.bsky.social @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So happy to see my postdoc research published in Environmental and Experimental Botany. In this publication, we found that heat stress tolerance in Lemna minor is multilayered, with several interacting sources. If you are interested in evolutionary ecology and climate change responses, check it out!

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New publication: Tolerance for #heatstress in #Lemnaminor reflects both local adaptation and acclimation over time, by @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social @kjfverhoeven.bsky.social. #climatechange doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Figure 1 in Blanco-Sánchez et al. (2026): "a) Source locations of the 18 clonal lines studied. Clonal lines are represented by different colors that reflect variation in temperature of origin, with slight adjustments to color palette to enhance visualization (i.e., warmer vs cooler colors denote lines from warmer vs cooler locations; see Table 1). This palette is maintained throughout all figures; b) Schematic representation of the experimental design. Eighteen Lemna minor clonal lines were grown under four constant temperature treatments (18 °C, 23 °C, 28 °C, and 33 °C), with two replicates per line and temperature, for five consecutive weeks (N = 720 experimental units). Each week, the relative growth rate (RGR) of each replicate was calculated from the change in total plant area over seven days; c) Spatial arrangement of jars within each growth chamber (see Methods for spatial blocking details). The first replicate of each line was randomly assigned to a 4 × 5 grid (block), and this arrangement was mirrored laterally in a second spatial block, creating an 8 × 5 grid such that each line had one replicate positioned near the chamber walls and one in the inner area, thereby balancing light exposure and any other spatial effects. Different clonal lines are represented with different colors, matching those in panel a)."

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NL Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW @niooknaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

New publication: Interactive Effects of #Warming and Competition Do Not Limit the Adaptive Plastic Response to #Drought in Populations of a #Mediterranean Plant, by @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social and others. #climatechange #waterscarcity #plantpopulations doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Interactive Effects of Warming and Competition Do Not Limit the Adaptive Plastic Response to Drought in Populations of a Mediterranean Plant

Plants can modify their phenotype (i.e., the characteristics of an individual) in response to environmental changes, a phenomenon termed phenotypic plasticity. Adaptive plasticity may maintain or inc...

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Interactive Effects of Warming and Competition Do Not Limit the Adaptive Plastic Response to Drought in Populations of a Mediterranean Plant 🔗 buff.ly/mm1MHhn @iicg-urjc.bsky.social @marinirm.bsky.social @smatesanz.bsky.social @marioblancosanchez.bsky.social @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social

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