Lucia Fuchslueger
@loutsi.bsky.social
Soil ecologist tracing roots and microbes in soil. Concerned about the climate.
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Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social.
@loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social
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@loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social
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Eight “Highly Cited Researchers” at CeMESS
CeMESS is proud to announce that eight of its researchers across all its four divisions have been named on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world's most highly cited researchers. This prestigious recogn...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social.
@loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social
ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...
@loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social
ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...
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Organizer Thilo Hofmann @cemess.bsky.social, contributions from 30+ @univie.ac.at scientists, incl @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Stephan Krämer, @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ppjevac.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social, and @loutsi.bsky.social from our cluster.
Environmental Emergencies | iMooX
imoox.at
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Organizer Thilo Hofmann @cemess.bsky.social, contributions from 30+ @univie.ac.at scientists, incl @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Stephan Krämer, @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ppjevac.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social, and @loutsi.bsky.social from our cluster.
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Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...
September 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...
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Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too!
Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too!
Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
Reposted by Lucia Fuchslueger
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
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A 💥NEW STUDY💥 has found that warming depletes the Arctic soil’s nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions! ⛰️ The reason why? 🧵
✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!
✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A 💥NEW STUDY💥 has found that warming depletes the Arctic soil’s nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions! ⛰️ The reason why? 🧵
✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!
✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!
It was so exciting to speak in such a beautiful hall, and did the opportunity to talk about traits of tropical roots, and the @tropiroot.bsky.social initiative at the #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh this week!
June 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It was so exciting to speak in such a beautiful hall, and did the opportunity to talk about traits of tropical roots, and the @tropiroot.bsky.social initiative at the #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh this week!
Check out the poster by @daniarandi.bsky.social later today! Looking forward to learn more about halophyte microbiomes! #rhizosphere6
Very happy to be in wonderful Edinburgh presenting a poster at the #rhizosphere6 conference. If you‘re around, come over to poster session today (Tuesday) to hear about reduced microbial consortia and root growth under salinity stress :)
June 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Check out the poster by @daniarandi.bsky.social later today! Looking forward to learn more about halophyte microbiomes! #rhizosphere6
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If you are at #rhizosphere6 and interested in fine root functional traits, go talk to @elsaelsam.bsky.social from @zalf.bsky.social. If you (like me - tearfully) miss out on this event, check out the paper in the thread below 😉
Next up at #rhizosphere6: @elsaelsam.bsky.social takes us on a journey about the extensions of the Root Economics Space! 🤩
June 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you are at #rhizosphere6 and interested in fine root functional traits, go talk to @elsaelsam.bsky.social from @zalf.bsky.social. If you (like me - tearfully) miss out on this event, check out the paper in the thread below 😉
Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi!
The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!
The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!
🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots
TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments
Tropical ecosystems contain the world's largest biodiversity of vascular plants. Yet, our understanding of tropical functional diversity and its contribution to global diversity patterns is constrain...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi!
The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!
The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!
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We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at tropiroottrait@gmail.com. Thanks
April 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at tropiroottrait@gmail.com. Thanks
The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!
April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!
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AmazonFACE está contratando pós doc. Vagas de:
1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese
2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento
3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico
4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos
1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese
2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento
3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico
4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
AmazonFACE está contratando pós doc. Vagas de:
1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese
2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento
3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico
4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos
1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese
2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento
3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico
4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos
Congratulations to Viktor Van de Velde from the UGhent and all the team to the publication of a chapter of his PhD thesis! We were investigating microbial soil P cycling rates in recovering forest after agricultural use in forests in the DRC, find out more here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Gross soil phosphorus fluxes remain constant along forest recovery trajectories in Central Africa
Phosphorus (P) is crucial for ecosystem functioning, yet primary productivity in many tropical regrowth forests on highly weathered soils is assumed t…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Congratulations to Viktor Van de Velde from the UGhent and all the team to the publication of a chapter of his PhD thesis! We were investigating microbial soil P cycling rates in recovering forest after agricultural use in forests in the DRC, find out more here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out
A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.
theconversation.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...
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We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!
February 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!
Reposted by Lucia Fuchslueger
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Reposted by Lucia Fuchslueger
📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking.
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
February 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking.
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
Reposted by Lucia Fuchslueger
Happy Boxing Day to all cats who celebrate! 📦🐈⬛
December 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Happy Boxing Day to all cats who celebrate! 📦🐈⬛
How do soil microbes respond to climate change?
Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!
Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!
Are you interested in soils, microbes and biogeochemistry?
Join us at #EGU25 for session SSS4.5 ‚Soil microbial responses to climate change‘.
With
@loutsi.bsky.social @albertocanarini.bsky.social and Albert Brangarí we are thrilled to have
@ashish-malik.bsky.social as solicited keynote speaker!
Join us at #EGU25 for session SSS4.5 ‚Soil microbial responses to climate change‘.
With
@loutsi.bsky.social @albertocanarini.bsky.social and Albert Brangarí we are thrilled to have
@ashish-malik.bsky.social as solicited keynote speaker!
December 10, 2024 at 1:34 PM
How do soil microbes respond to climate change?
Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!
Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!
Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active!
Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!
Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!
Excited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds.
Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
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Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini.
Thread 1/2
rdcu.be/d1Tyg
Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions
Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...
rdcu.be
November 29, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active!
Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!
Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!
Reposted by Lucia Fuchslueger
#mycology folks... Ever wanted to programmatically search fungal names for synonyms on Mycobank? Notice that the R package for this has been broken for 7 years?
I've got you covered:
github.com/gzahn/mycoba...
Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.
I've got you covered:
github.com/gzahn/mycoba...
Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.
GitHub - gzahn/mycobank
Contribute to gzahn/mycobank development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 28, 2023 at 5:08 PM
#mycology folks... Ever wanted to programmatically search fungal names for synonyms on Mycobank? Notice that the R package for this has been broken for 7 years?
I've got you covered:
github.com/gzahn/mycoba...
Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.
I've got you covered:
github.com/gzahn/mycoba...
Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.
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Many congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social for receiving the Environment and Climate Award 2024. Very much deserved, Lucia!
#TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
#TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
March 8, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Many congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social for receiving the Environment and Climate Award 2024. Very much deserved, Lucia!
#TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
#TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at