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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo
@castretis.bsky.social
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Young ecologist curious about plants and their traits 🌲🍂
Infographics & data visualization 🖍️📈
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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Mar 10
This has definitely been an adventure! 🥾 On Friday, after some years working on my PhD, I defended my thesis. And having the chance to give this step surrounded by colleagues, friends and family has been something “unbeleafable” 🍃
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agwirthweigelt.bsky.social
Scenes from the @treedi.bsky.social conference 🌳
Participants joined Prof. Christian Wirth for a guided tour through the ARBOFun arboretum - exploring how long-term measurements help us understand forest dynamics and tree functioning #treeDi #ForestEcology #PlantScience
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
#TansleyInsight: The path toward a unified trait space: synthesizing plant #FunctionalDiversity

Carlos Carmona & Eleonora Beccari
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Fig. 1 Schematic representation of broad groups of traits measurable across plant organs.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
castretis.bsky.social
The view from my new office suggests this will be a great place to study plant ecology! 🌿 Excited to have started my new postdoc position in the group of functional ecology at @mbgcsic.bsky.social @csic.es
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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treedi.bsky.social
Neue Ausgabe des Konfuzius Magazins mit einem Artikel über TreeDì: "Wald und Waldforschung in China" ab Seite 8.
www.konfuziusinstitut-leipzig.de/konfuzius-in...
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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treedi.bsky.social
Inspiring joint conference of @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social, with 20 presentations by doctoral researchers, 7 workshops, 5 international keynote speakers, 1 excursion and 1 guided city tour.
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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mbuhaly.bsky.social
Happy this paper is published!

Testing for biotic homogenization of plant communities through the addition of non-native species along mountain roads across multiple spatial scales

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Global Homogenisation of Plant Communities Along Mountain Roads by Non‐Native Species Despite Mixed Effects at Smaller Scales
Aim Mountain ecosystems are experiencing increased invasion of non-native plants. These increases in non-native species put mountains at risk of biotic homogenisation and a reduction of biodiversity.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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henneckejustus.bsky.social
Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rooting for function: community‐level fine‐root traits relate to many ecosystem functions
Humans are driving biodiversity change, which also alters community functional traits. However, how changes in the functional traits of the community alter ecosystem functions—especially belowground...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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albaanadon.bsky.social
Our paper on #intraindividual trait variability is out!
We studied #clonal #tundra #shrubs along elevation and latitude gradients to explore the sources of trait variability
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Intraindividual Variability as a Large Source of Trait Variation in Clonal Tundra Dwarf Shrubs Along Elevation and Latitude Gradients
Aim Intraindividual trait variability (iITV), which is the variability among repeated architectural units within an individual, may represent a crucial dimension of functional diversity in plant eco.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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gpuglielli.bsky.social
Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means?

With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
castretis.bsky.social
Just collected the data from our loggers in the cliffs of la Pedriza for MIREN Rocks! Excited to finally have our cliff vegetation and microclimate data together
September 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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natecoevo.nature.com
New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Ecology & Evolution
It is unclear whether the linkage between tree species richness and insect herbivory is consistent across climates and forest types. Here, the authors analyse data from forest biodiversity experiments...
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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zoom.earth
🔥 Fires continue to rage in Portugal and Spain today, with thick plumes of smoke and pyrocumulonimbus drifting northward.
August 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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fmazcarate.bsky.social
¿Por qué la región entre Zamora, León y Ourense arde tanto?
No, no es para construir aerogeneradores, ni por ninguna de las teorías conspiranoicas que estamos leyendo. La explicación es más compleja… y menos cómoda para quienes buscan respuestas simples. 1/13
Copernicus
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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cavenderg9.bsky.social
What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments”
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK
www.spectralbiology.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
castretis.bsky.social
🚨 New paper led by @michakoehlerbotany.bsky.social in @ecol-evol.bsky.social‬ 🍃 We found that the communities of foliar endophytic fungi are driven by leaf traits and intraindividual trait variability 🧵
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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@geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social
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Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment
Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associa...
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social
🚨 Doctoral Student Paper Alert 🚨
🌿🍄 What shapes fungal endophyte diversity inside tree leaves? We found that leaf traits, both their average values and variation within a single tree, strongly influence foliar fungal endophyte communities. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment
Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associa...
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo
oikosjournal.bsky.social
⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland

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#EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

July 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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remybeugnon.bsky.social
🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms

We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning.

🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs

👇 A short thread
rdcu.be
July 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
castretis.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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cmoeller.bsky.social
It was so great to finally meet you in person, Pablo! Thank you for joining our session 🌿
castretis.bsky.social Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · Jun 10
Last week I talked about trait variation at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social . I enjoyed presenting in a room full of friends and researchers I admire. Thanks to @cmoeller.bsky.social and Martí March-Salas for putting intraspecific and intraindividual variation into the spotlight of this conference
June 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
castretis.bsky.social
Last week I talked about trait variation at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social . I enjoyed presenting in a room full of friends and researchers I admire. Thanks to @cmoeller.bsky.social and Martí March-Salas for putting intraspecific and intraindividual variation into the spotlight of this conference
June 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
castretis.bsky.social
‪Tomorrow at 11:00 I'll be talking about trait variation in tree diversity experiments at the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social meeting (TSD-4). The session will have a strong component of intraspecific and intraindividual variation, so don't miss it if you're a fan of this thrilling topic
June 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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albaanadon.bsky.social
This year, #intraindividual variability will rock it at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social!! From a keynote talk by @cmhmaliani.bsky.social to a specific session Mon-Tue! I will talk about intraindividual trait #coordination in #tundra #clonal #shrubs on Tue morning. So much looking forward to it!🌱🌿🌲
cmhmaliani.bsky.social Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · May 31
Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers
June 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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jhortal.bsky.social
A new paper from Indra deCastro-Arrazola shows that aridity filters dung beetles both in space & time along the Sahara’s edge. Their traits & lineages shift continuously in a similar way in a transect towards the desert and between the wet and dry seasons. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social
#NICED 🌐🧪👇
Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara
Ecological communities under extreme environments are shaped by a balance of environmental filtering and coexistence mechanisms that result in a series of assembly rules. Although there is abundant e...
doi.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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jsegrestin.bsky.social
Trait-based #ecology has flourished, but key limitations still hinder progress. We identify 8 major shortfalls, from trait definitions 📏 to ecosystem scaling 🔄🌐, and propose paths forward for a more robust and integrative trait-based framework.

📄🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
@esajournals.bsky.social
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology
Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM