Reposted by Philipp SchulerNadine Ruehr @nadineruehr.bsky.social · 16/04/2026🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co 23433
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Preparing the upcoming experiment and measuring pre-treatment lead gas exchange is a totally different experience when you are visited by hummingbirds and you are having a monarch butterfly caterpillar to pet in the greenhouse :) #plantecophys #plantscience #ucberkeley #ecology 2111
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Just planted Sequoia sempervirens/Coastal Redwoods, the first of 12 tree species I will be studying during my fellowship here in California 🌲🌳🔬 0131
Reposted by Philipp SchulerCharlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 07/01/2026🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...epfl.chPhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric DroughtWe invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil... 02826
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 05/12/2025In our recent study, we demonstrate how high temperatures alter leaf-level C dynamics, resulting in a significant shift towards sugars as the primary C reserve, and concurrent shifts in 2H and 18O composition @lehmannlab.bsky.social @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.socialrdcu.beHot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprintsnpj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints 0115
Reposted by Philipp SchulerAnnals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025🎉🆕📰🎉: Primary and secondary growth of Pinus halepensis are more sensitive to inter-annual drought variability than to 14 years of rainfall exclusion in a Mediterranean forest doi.org/10.1093/aob/... 054
Reposted by Philipp SchulerKali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Featured on the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social is a thermal image of Elaeocarpus Grandis taken at @jcuofficial.bsky.social Daintree Rainforest Observatory. In this species we find that populations originating from warmer climates have narrower leaves with higher rates of water loss. 0195
Reposted by Philipp SchulerWSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025#JobAlert! Experience in leading #research groups and developing research projects? Are you proactive and do you have strong negotiation skills? We are looking for a new head of the #ForestResources and Management Research Unit: apply.refline.ch/273855/1725/... #ScienceJobs #SustainableManagement 074
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Nice diversity among my different Quercus pubescens genotypes from 1) Pfynwald, Switzerland; 2) Crete, Greece; 3) Barcelona, Spain. 4) is Quercus infectoria ssp veneris from Polis, Cyprus (the massive ones next to the pub) which are growing unexpected fast. 071
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025After a month of more rain, trees and shrubs are starting to have crispy leaves again. Lets see how far they will dry out during the next few days, and whether there will be enough rain comming next week to make them recover. I doubt that there is a future for most native tree species 040
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Hiking on the Azores is often hiking through novel ecosystems with probably over 90% introduced plant species. Likely the future of many regions until the end of this century due to the expected strong missmatch between the climatic conditions and the bioclimatic envelope of the native species 060
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 07/07/2025First signes of early #drought are visible on trees and shrubs in a forest close to my hometown. While the current (~25mm) rain helped for sure, this water will already soon be evapotranspirated based on weather projections. Lets see how severe the drought will hit during the comming months 060
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Only few people know that we have (introduced) wild cacti in Switzerland. Today, I was finally able to visit Opuntia phaeacantha and O. mesacantha in Sion, Valais. I wonder if the native lizarsds are also eating and disperse them as the lizards on the Canary Islands do 151
Reposted by Philipp SchulerKate Johnson @kateplantphys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃 Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @newphyt.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown 34920
Reposted by Philipp SchulerDr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 05/06/2025#PlantSciJob alert! Graham Farquhar's group at ANU @biologyanu.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social is hiring a research assistant to help with their portfolio of stable isotope + #ecophys #PlantScience research (including @li-corenv.bsky.social support). Apply by 2 July 2025. Please share! 🧪jobs.anu.edu.auResearch Assistant - Canberra / ACT, ACT, AustraliaClassification: ANU Officer Grade 5/6 (Research)Salary package: $83,351 - $97,929 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time (part-time, job share or a gradual increase in hours will be consider... 01015
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Our latest study (submitted to JXB) is now available as a preprint. We emphasise the importance of directly measuring the CO2 flux of whole plants.🧵biorxiv.orgPANDA: A simple and affordable chamber system for measuring the whole-plant net CO2 fluxThe carbon (C) balance of plants is the sum of all source and sink processes. However, due to methodological limitations, most studies focus predominantly on measurements of leaf-level assimilation an... 452
Reposted by Philipp SchulerItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Contrary to popular belief, what is important in science is as much its spirit as its product: it is as much the openmindedness, the primacy of criticism, the submission to the unforeseen, however upsetting, as the result, however new that may be. – Francois Jacob www.nature.com/articles/s41... 123177
Reposted by Philipp SchulerArthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Tracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring Compounds - Diao et al. - Plant, Cell & Environment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...onlinelibrary.wiley.comTracing Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Signals From Water Sources to Tree‐Ring CompoundsStable oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δ2H) isotope compositions of tree-ring compounds preserve information about environmental waters; however, our understanding of their isotopic relationships is hamp... 0159
Reposted by Philipp SchulerDr Pierre Mariotte @pierremariotte.bsky.social · 27/05/2025🎉 Congratulations to my PhD student Julie Botzas-Coluni who won the prize for the best poster at the Swiss Animal Nutrition Conference 2025 @ethz.ch #AgroForageTreeProject @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social 1223
Reposted by Philipp SchulerGrant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Death by a thousand cuts- areas rich in biodiversity being destroyed for housing. “There is plenty of completely degraded land with no biodiversity values at all to put those houses” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThe fight for Woogaroo Forest: new housing could silence some of Queensland’s ‘virtuoso songbirds’In eucalyptus woodland near Ipswich, where developers see new housing, ecologists see crucial habitat for endangered wildlife such as koalas, frill-necked lizards and increasingly rare birds 33512
Reposted by Philipp SchulerWSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025🌲🖥️ #PhDAlert! MSc in a #natural #science & experience with #tree-ring analysis and statistical software (R)? Fluent in English and ready for #fieldwork? Our #forest dynamics #research unit is looking for a #PhD candidate in #dendroecology and #ecophysiology! apply.refline.ch/273855/1736/... 02627
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Update of my little oak nursery with seedlings of Quercus pubescens from Pfynwald/Switzerland, Barcelona, and Crete, as well as Quercus calliprinos from Crete and Quercus infectoria ssp veneris from Cyprus 051
Reposted by Philipp SchulerBotany One @botany.one · 10/05/2025Want More Bees in Your City? Mix Up Your Flowers A new study finds that cities can support more wild bee species by planting a greater variety of flower shapes—not just more flowers. botany.one/2025/05/want... Read the original research at doi.org/10.1002/eap.... 0104
Reposted by Philipp SchulerBen Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I recently read & reviewed @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's book, 'Reconsidering Reparations'. The connections he draws b/t slavery, colonialism, capitalism, and climate justice are conversations we don't have enough of in ecological discourse. I recommend reading it. open.substack.com/pub/benlockw...open.substack.comNew Worldmaking: Reparations as climate justice, climate justice as reparationsA review of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's "Reconsidering Reparations" 1419
Reposted by Philipp SchulerHelena Vallicrosa @vallicrosah.bsky.social · 29/04/2025We have 3 players in a grassland: plants, microbes and soils. Who is winning on the fight for N under drought and warming conditions? Should we adapt our management strategies? Come to my #EGU25 talk on Wed to find out! BG3.5 @reclean.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...meetingorganizer.copernicus.orgAbstract EGU25-2870 0184
Reposted by Philipp SchulerCharlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 22/04/2025🌳Urban trees keep cooling - even during record-breaking heatwaves! We show that trees maintained high transpiration, defying model predictions. Tree cooling during heat may be underestimated 🌡️💦 Great study led by Christoph Bachofen @wslresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.uf... 111023
Reposted by Philipp SchulerJoseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Great news that the 1st Guam Kingfishers released into the wild for 40 yrs are nesting. This bird may become the poster-child of assisted colonisation (and possible future speciation) as their new home is >3500 miles from Guam – London-to-New-York kind of distance. Background in this older link: 0163
Reposted by Philipp SchulerHelena Vallicrosa @vallicrosah.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Our manuscript esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... got awarded #TopViewedArticle! Have you had the chance to learn about nutrients in tropical forests yet? Here we found evidence of some interesting nitrogen-phosphorus links!esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPhosphorus scarcity contributes to nitrogen limitation in lowland tropical rainforestsThere is increasing evidence to suggest that soil nutrient availability can limit the carbon sink capacity of forests, a particularly relevant issue considering today's changing climate. This questio... 1103
Reposted by Philipp SchulerDr Pierre Mariotte @pierremariotte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025⚠️ New paper out: Influence of #pastoral management on the #conservation of #mountain #pasture #biodiversity (available in English🇬🇧 and French🇫🇷). @agroscope.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.socialproductions-animales.org Influence de la gestion pastorale sur la conservation de la biodiversité des pâturages de montagne | INRAE Productions Animales 132
Reposted by Philipp SchulerMarco M. Lehmann @lehmannmm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Do aquaporins play a key role in regulating leaf gas exchange—especially under unsaturation in the stomatal cavity at high VPD? We think so! Check out our opinion piece in Plant, Cell & Environment with Haoyu Diao and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/pce.... 053
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A nice variability between the seedlings of Quercus pubescens from Pfynwald/Switzerland, Barcelona/Spain, and Crete/Greece. Looking forward to test how they cope with heat stress above 40°C 0112
Reposted by Philipp SchulerCharlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 08/04/2025onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits. @a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.socialonlinelibrary.wiley.comLeaf Excision and Exposure Duration Alter the Estimates of the Irreversible Photosynthetic Thermal ThresholdsOur study highlights the importance of assessing thermal thresholds using consistent exposure duration and plant material type when comparing studies, as well as their relationship to functional re... 1259
Reposted by Philipp SchulerJanisse Deluigi @janissedeluigi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social 44814
Reposted by Philipp SchulerCarolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Leonie Schönbeck showed how drought tolerant species with leaves below turgor loss point maintain photosynthesis and avoid plasmolysis with me and @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social. check it out online-library.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comLeaf Turgor Loss Does Not Coincide With Cell Plasmolysis in Drought‐Tolerant Chaparral SpeciesDrought-tolerant chaparral species can survive months with water potentials below their turgor loss point. We find that turgor loss point can vary with drought and temperature increase and does not c... 185
Reposted by Philipp SchulerNew Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025'What excites me is the chance to work with incredible scientists from all over the world, some of whom are just starting their scientific journey.' In #Profile: Charlotte Grossiord 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.… #LatestIssue #PlantScience 03010
Reposted by Philipp SchulerKali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...theconversation.comStudy shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and EarthAn experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls. 04321
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Happy to share the preprint of our latest study on 2H and 18O fractionation, showing the close connection between leaf sugar d2H and the leaf level carbon dynamics. This was part of the 4th chapter of my PhD thesis, however it is now much more improved compared to the thesis version 🥂doi.orgHot and Hungry: High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbohydrate dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprintsAccurate predictions of vegetation responses to global warming require a precise understanding of physiological temperature responses. We investigated the effects of air temperature (10°C to 40&de... 093
Reposted by Philipp SchulerCharlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Interested in plants under climate extremes? 🍃🌡️💧❄️ Submit an abstract to our session at EGU in Vienna, 27th April- 2nd May 2025! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Abstracts due Jan 15th @kateplantphys.bsky.socialmeetingorganizer.copernicus.orgBrowse by session 0138
Reposted by Philipp SchulerJens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 01/01/2025The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewildingcambridge.orgThe late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge CoreThe late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2 15391135
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I really love to collect seeds of rare and/or species that are often not included in studies, so I can grow them by myself and use them in my future experiments #plantscience #botany #plantphysiology #oaks #quercus 0111
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Look at these amazing Quercus infectoria subsp. veneris with huge acorns, looking similar to the ones of ithaburensis. Closely related to Quercus pubescens and the other roburoids. Likely having important genes for introgressive adaptation of robur and petreae in Central and Western Europe 032
Reposted by Philipp SchulerNew Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The recorded talks from the 46th New Phytologist Symposium: Stomata #46NPS are available to watch on demand! Check them out on our Cassyni channel: cassyni.com/s/newphyt2024 Our call for papers on stomata is open until 14 February 2025: www.newphytologist.org/news/view/353cassyni.comNew Phytologist Foundation Events 2024 - seminars · CassyniThe New Phytologist Foundation organises and supports symposia and workshops. More details are available here: . This series hosts the recordings from these events. 46th New Phytologist Symposium:… 0105
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Bad news for Myrtaceae in Europe: we detected the highly damaging myrtle rust on dutch indoor bonsai which were sold in Obi, Switzerland. I have contacted the dutch authorities in charge, responsible for the phytosanitary certificates, however they replied in an incredible disapointing way (1/2).bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comFirst report of Austropuccinia psidii on Syzygium buxifolium grown as indoor bonsai in EuropeClick on the article title to read more. 1175
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I finally managed to find Quercus alnifolia, the endemic oak species of Cyprus. Amazing how similar it is to Quercus chrysolepis from California - oaks are the master of convergent evolution and evolve the same traits over and over again! #botany #quercus #quercisalnifolia #plantscience 0222
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Not in english available yet but you can use a translator insteadtagesanzeiger.chWeltbekannter Klimaforscher muss die ETH Zürich nach Vorwürfen verlassenGegen den Professor haben acht Personen Vorwürfe erhoben. Er bestreitet jedes Fehlverhalten. Nach Berichten dieser Redaktion ordnete die ETH eine Untersuchung an und handelt nun. 063
Philipp Schuler @philippschuler.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The SNF just approved my research proposal to visit Todd Dawson's lab at UC Berkeley for two years 🌲☀️🌳 Seems like I will have to do my driving licence after all! 🏞️🏜️🌄 Thank you so much @snf-ch.bsky.social 🥂🎊 080
Reposted by Philipp SchulerSkjold Alsted Søndergaard @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Check your baseline! It’s reasonable to assume that hippos in Colombia is a problem but studies don’t find the expected eco-catastrophe (doi: 10.1002/ECY.2991) Is it due to previous degradation from agriculture or a yet-small population? www.facebook.com/100001523860...facebook.comDet endnu billigere skidt! Alexander Holm og Sebastian Klein har for nyligt dækket Pablo Escobars kokainflodheste på deres podcast Det Billige Skidt.... | By Skjold | FacebookDet endnu billigere skidt! Alexander Holm og Sebastian Klein har for nyligt dækket Pablo Escobars kokainflodheste på deres podcast Det Billige Skidt.... 4164
Reposted by Philipp SchulerDr. Sydney Glassman @sydneyglassman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990aprecruit.ucr.eduAssistant Professor in Fungal BiologyUniversity of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now! 09888
Reposted by Philipp SchulerNearly Wild @nearlywild.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Birds are excellent seed dispersers. Tip: To accelerate natural regeneration in an open landscape, "plant" some large dead branches in the ground. When birds fly over, they may stop for a rest on the branches, hopefully donating a deposit of seeds and fertilizer to your nat regen project! 2198
Reposted by Philipp SchulerElisabet Martínez-Sancho @elimartinezs.bsky.social · 08/12/2024 I am excited to announce that we are organising again the #treering session at #EGU25. 🌲💍Abstract submission is now open until Jan 15. tinyurl.com/sbdt4ezp KerstinTreydte Jernej Jevšenak Annemarie Eckes-Shephard and Pieter Zuidema #dendrochronology 02512