Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...

Dual mycorrhizal plants are associated with both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi that differ in cost and effectiveness for nutrient acquisition. Little is known about env.....

Trees along an elevation gradient near the Alpine treeline used carbon fixed within the last two years to grow their needles and branches, and carbon fixed two to ten years ago to grow their fine roo....

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EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...

Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.

A commentary by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Clonal plant researchers meet every two or three years in meetings to exchange ideas and results. The …

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Using a 20-year-long soil warming experiment, we found that the belowground responses of temperate forest trees to warming varied depending on tree mycorrhizal type. Specifically, trees associating w...