Nicolas Gross
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Nicolas Gross
@nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social

Community ecologist interested in the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship

Environmental science 46%
Agriculture 25%
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Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution!

It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏

@inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social
Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning. Here the authors identify thresholds of grassland plant community structure and stability in response to la...
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Un document concis et clair du @hc-climat.bsky.social
Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa

More at climameter.org
Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators
To understand, measure and mitigate biodiversity change, science and policy need to differentiate between diagnostic indicators that capture as many different biodiversity facets as needed, outcome-o...
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The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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Ces écosystèmes accueillent une riche biodiversité, piègent du carbone, filtrent l’eau, permettent de nourrir des animaux d’élevage… mais ils sont menacés par une utilisation de plus en plus intensive.

Aujourd’hui, nous allons parler des prairies !
We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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L’agroécologie : une alliée pour la nature, le climat et l’agriculture en Europe

Une méta-analyse de 170 études, dans 21 pays, montre que les systèmes agroécologiques favorisent la biodiversité & le stockage du C dans les sols 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/l...

@agroscope.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social
Highly interesting research by Tamsin Lockwood and colleagues now published in a paper titled

"Semi-natural grasslands as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation: An assessment of carbon and plant communities across age gradients"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Read the story behind this paper in the @springernature.com Earth & Environment community:

communities.springernature.com/posts/decada...
Decadal warming depletes topsoil nitrogen stocks in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem
communities.springernature.com

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📰Published📰Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet🌱

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Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet
Sushmita Dhakal, Kazi R Mehnaz, Erin I E Rogers, Ian J Wright, David S Ellsworth This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Phosphorus is an …
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Congrats! can you send the paper it is a paywall, merci!

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New publication in Proceedings B: urlr.me/qZ39CJ. We show that the use of insecticides reduces rapeseed yields beyond a threshold of 36g/ha. The reason is that insecticides reduce natural regulation, leading to an increase in insect pests and weeds!
Crop yield loss under high insecticide regime driven by reduction in natural pest control | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Current agricultural pest management mainly relies on the use of synthetic insecticides with strong adverse impacts on the environment or humans. Decreasing crop productivity in the case of pesticide-...
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To meet the targets of the #UN Rio Conventions (#UNCCD, #UNFCCC & #CBD) we must bend the curve of land degradation. Our latest Review in @natureportfolio.nature.com #Nature discusses how to do it by 2050 by urgently transforming global food systems rdcu.be/eACfr #KAUST

Reposted by Seth M. Munson

Mitigating vegetation fragmentation in drylands requires promoting plant–soil facilitation, especially under high grazing pressure.

For more see our new paper in #GEB 🌐

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another great outcomes from the #biodesert survey led by
Yanchuang Zhao!
The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands
Aim To evaluate how grazing pressure, a key land-use factor, interacts with climatic, vegetation, and soil variables to shape the fragmentation of perennial vegetation across drylands globally. Lo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.
Nature @nature.com · Aug 9
Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Nature - Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
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doi.org/10.1007/s105...
"Life on Earth is not confined by our imagined political boundaries between one country and the next, between one state and the next... "
Brave new world 2.0 - Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry -
doi.org

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'Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.'
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...
www.thelancet.com
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Tribune signée par un vaste collectif (scientifiques, sociétés savantes, associations, collectifs en santé & environnement, associations de patients) : « Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution »
« Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution »
TRIBUNE. Alors que la pétition contre le texte réintroduisant l’acétamipride a franchi les deux millions de signataires, des associations de patients et des sociétés savantes médicales ou scientifique...
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Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.

www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
www.aisnakeoil.com

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In this News & Views commentary, Frank Pennekamp discusses a new study that sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships, www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Free to read: rdcu.be/ewDdf
1 mn pour signer ...
1 chance pour revenir sur cette loi, véritable rupture démocratique pour conjurer cynisme&irresponsabilité.
Chaque signature compte!
A toutes et tous!
C'est ici 👇 et vivent les rebsweets!
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Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée ...
Je m'appelle Eléonore PATTERY, j’ai 23 ans, et je suis actuellement en Master QSE et RSE (Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement / Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises). En tant que future professionne...
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Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature
Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...
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the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪
Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen
Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...
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