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TreeDì @treedi.bsky.social · 10d

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.

Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · 29d

I had the honour to write a @newphyt.bsky.social commentary on this fantastic paper — summarizing its key insights and exploring exciting directions for future research. Hope it may spark new ideas and helps the community! ✨
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trajectories of alpine plant communities under climate change.

Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · Oct 7

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...

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Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · Jul 22

Busy making needle imprints and diving into stomatal worlds under the microscope 🔬🌲
Measuring stomatal size and density — still amazed by the incredible variation, even among conifers!
#ARBOfun #stomata #conifer #drought #forest

Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · Jul 16

Such a great week with the #sTREND working group — lots of ideas on tree traits and neighbourhood diversity taking shape. 🌲🌳 Grateful to have been part of it! #FunctionalTraits #ForestDiversity @idiv-research.bsky.social

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Jul 16

Fun week @idiv-research.bsky.social attending the 1st meeting of sTREND working group on synthesis of tree traits responses to neighbouring diversity with @mixedforests.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social and others

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Jul 16

Fun week @idiv-research.bsky.social attending the 1st meeting of sTREND working group on synthesis of tree traits responses to neighbouring diversity with @mixedforests.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social and others

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Jul 16

Root shrinkage measurements of 40 #tree species at #ARBOfun completed! We've measured root #shrinkage, to understand #root-soil contact under #drought. The campaign was led by Dr. Anvar Sanaei with great support of our technician Nicole Nabel. Excited to see the results! #RootTraits #PlantScience

Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · Jul 2

Into the canopy for tiny pores 🌲🔎
We sampled needles from 12 #conifer species at the arboretum #ARBOfun to study stomatal density and size. Looking forward to the lab work & to uncovering what these traits can reveal about tree drought responses in a changing climate. #stomata #drought #forest

A person standing on a ladder collecting conifer needles of the species Tsuga canadensis

Close-up of the abaxial side of Abies needles showing the white wax layers over the bands of stomata

Needle of Picea sitchensis under the binocular with wax layers of stomatal pores visible

View of the arboretum ARBOfun in Großpösna, Germany

iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Apr 16

16 April is the day when Leipzig celebrates its floodplain forest – and fittingly, a new paper by Annalena Lenk @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows how the current tree dieback combined with the thinning of certain understorey species, can support oak regeneration.🌳🍃

www.idiv.de/experiment-i...

Experiment in Leipzig’s floodplain forest

Using tree mortality to support oak regeneration

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations to iDiv’s founding director Christian Wirth!🥂

Yesterday, he received the member certificate of the Academy of Sciences @leopoldina.org - a high scientific honour.👏

Read more (in German): www.idiv.de/de/christian...
@agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social #iDivImpact

iDiv-Gründungsdirektor Christian Wirth bekommt Urkunde als neues Mitglied der Leopoldina

Die Aufnahme in die 1652 gegründete Gelehrtengesellschaft gilt als hohe wissenschaftliche Anerkennung.

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The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Apr 8

🎉 Congrats to our PhD student @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social, whose paper on #forest #growth #resistance & #resilience to drought was shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize! 🌳 Read more on the Journal of Ecology blog: jecologyblog.com/2025/04/04/l...

Lena Sachsenmaier: Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

2024 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: For the next two weeks, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research pape…

jecologyblog.com

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Apr 8

👏 And also congrats to @karlandraczek.bsky.social! His paper on #biodiversity – #productivity relationships in managed #grasslands was as well shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize! 🌱 Read more on the Journal of Ecology blog: jecologyblog.com/2025/04/02/k...

Karl Andraczek: Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands

2024 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: For the next two weeks, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research pape…

jecologyblog.com

Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Apr 7

Interested in how #forest #resilience to #drought depended on tree diversity and #mycorrhiza?

The study by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social in @journalofecology.bsky.social was just shortlisted for the Harper Prize🚨👏 Read more on the paper here👇

jecologyblog.com/2025/04/04/l...

Lena Sachsenmaier: Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

2024 HARPER PRIZE SHORTLIST: For the next two weeks, we are featuring the articles shortlisted for the 2024 Harper Prize. The Harper Prize is an annual award for the best early career research pape…

jecologyblog.com

Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · Apr 4

🌍 Ever wondered what life is made of - literally?
We just launched StoichLife, a global dataset of the elemental building blocks of life across nearly 6,000 species! 🌱🐟
Spanning land, water, and sea, it opens up new insights into how organisms are shaped by their environments 🏜️🏔️🌊 #stoichiometry

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Apr 3

New paper by our PhD student Annalena Lenk in #Forest #Ecology and Management: #Climate change-induced tree mortality can promote #oak regeneration in #floodplain forests – if flood-intolerant maple species are selectively removed. #Biodiversity #Research
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Elevated tree mortality as a regeneration niche for oak? Testing different management approaches in a meliorated floodplain forest

Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.), a keystone species in European temperate floodplain forests, faces regeneration challenges due to dense canopies c…

sciencedirect.com

Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Mar 31

Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️

🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

/w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social

Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity

Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ....

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Karl Andraczek @karlandraczek.bsky.social · Mar 24

Very cool paper reviewing how the Root Economics Space advances our understanding of fine-root functioning 🫚🌾☀️

It was a great pleasure to work with such an amazing team of coauthors, especially the fantastic lead team @elsaelsam.bsky.social , @joanabergmann.bsky.social

Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · Mar 23

🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵

I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity

Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Mar 20

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Harper Prize. 🏆

Each year, we award the Harper Prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author.

See the full list here:

2024 Harper Prize Shortlist: Early Career Research Award

The Harper Prize is awarded annually by the British Ecological Society for the best paper in Journal of Ecology by an early career author. We are pleased to present th…

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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” 🍃

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Mar 3

How does #biodiversity affect plant #defence investment?

We found that while overall defence investment remains stable, plant species richness decouples leaf and root defences.

For more details, check out our paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@newphyt.bsky.social

Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species‐specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare

The increased positive impact of plant diversity on ecosystem functioning is often attributed to the accumulation of mutualists and dilution of antagonists in diverse plant communities. While increa...

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Feb 25

Interested in #forest restoration and #carbon sequestration?

🚨 In our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we show that 🌳 Tree diversity 🌲 increases carbon stocks and fluxes in a tropical forest experiment.

#TreeDivNet, @uni-freiburg.de

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tree Diversity Increases Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Above—But Not Belowground in a Tropical Forest Experiment

We examined the potential of mixed-species planted forests compared to monospecific forests to act as a nature-based solution to climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. By analysing m....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · Feb 24

Really enjoyed the ARBOfun meeting @iDiv! Always a pleasure to exchange ideas in such a unique setting — happy to be part of this community! #ARBOfun

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Feb 24

ARBOfun Meeting 2025 @iDiv – Thanks for your brilliant talks, the fruitful discussions, and two inspiring days! Exciting to see how our research evolves on this unique platform, where 100 different tree species grow side by side. #ARBOfun

The Wirth-Weigelt Working Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social · Feb 24

ARBOfun Meeting 2025 @iDiv – Thanks for your brilliant talks, the fruitful discussions, and two inspiring days! Exciting to see how our research evolves on this unique platform, where 100 different tree species grow side by side. #ARBOfun

Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social · Jan 3

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities

Soil fungi are critical for plants and ecosystems but are also affected by the vegetation itself. Here, we show how an experimental gradient of plant species richness and community fine root traits d...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 27

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree species richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.24.625116v1

Phenotypic variability within tree species responds to local tree species richness. However, we lack

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