From growth potential to drought survival: a trait- and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
Volaire et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Volaire et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Time for #oneforjournalclub paper of the year! Drum roll please ..
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Time for #oneforjournalclub paper of the year! Drum roll please ..
What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - our paper was born of collective frustration around continual conflation of restoration + reforestation, invariably misrepresenting open ecosystems in global models of ecosystem C storage potential.
Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience
The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...
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August 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org
Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...
doi.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Several recent studies suggest the summer solstice might act as a universal cue for key plant processes.
But why would the longest day of the year be so important? Our new study in @pnas.org sheds some light on this question ⏬
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social
But why would the longest day of the year be so important? Our new study in @pnas.org sheds some light on this question ⏬
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@lizzieinvancouver.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
May 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
#oneforjournalclub
Really nice example of combining TLS and tree ring records to characterise how crown architecture and canopy structure shape long-term tree growth strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Really nice example of combining TLS and tree ring records to characterise how crown architecture and canopy structure shape long-term tree growth strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
#oneforjournalclub
Really nice example of combining TLS and tree ring records to characterise how crown architecture and canopy structure shape long-term tree growth strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Really nice example of combining TLS and tree ring records to characterise how crown architecture and canopy structure shape long-term tree growth strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#oneforjournalclub
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought 🌐🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought 🌐🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. Here, the authors revisit a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adj...
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May 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
#oneforjournalclub
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought 🌐🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought 🌐🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Effect of climate extremes and grazing on functional traits of a grassland community: insights from a 20-year experiment
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events - Nature Plants
Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...
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April 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Nature research paper: Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species
https://go.nature.com/43Tc3GY
https://go.nature.com/43Tc3GY
Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species - Nature
Under field conditions, acquisitive tree species generally grow slowly, whereas conservative species show generally higher realized growth, owing to their ability to tolerate unfavourable environmental conditions.
go.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
As someone long interested in latitudinal gradient in forest diversity and dynamics it’s been really gratifying to see this paper come together over time- looking forward to the new research on forest dynamics I think this will inspire!
Nature research paper: Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests
https://go.nature.com/3CUTWWg
https://go.nature.com/3CUTWWg
February 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Excited about our new paper asking: Why does the growth of most life have an optimal temperature below 40°C? We argue the average maximum oceanic temperatures of <37°C for 2+ billion years drove evolution of the temperature optima of prokaryotes. 1/5
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Earth's Climate History Explains Life's Temperature Optima
We propose that the origin of the temperature optima of life results from two discrete evolutionary selection pressures that constrained the evolution of fundamental biochemistry and growth of most l...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Very rapid #thermophilization & #xerophilisation of grassland #plant #communities 🌾🌼🍀🌸in the California Floristic Province #CFP attributed to #climate #change ⬇️ An important study relying on both field surveys & long-term experiments ⬇️ Congrats to Kai Zhu & team
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shorturl.at/3FsVm
Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Plant community responses to climate change tend to be lagged in forests, but could be faster in grasslands. Here, the authors integrate long-term experimental data with >1 million occurrence recor...
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February 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
▶️ Post on the blog of @journalofecology.bsky.social about our recently published paper about the tree packing effect on BEF-relationships in forests 🌲🌳
jecologyblog.com/2025/02/11/d...
@joguillemot.bsky.social @riottelambert.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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@joguillemot.bsky.social @riottelambert.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
Diversity enhances forest productivity through its effect on the number of trees within forests.
Xavier Morin, CEFE, CNRS, University of Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France, discusses his article: More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity The e…
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February 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
January 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We are reading this paper - again! - for lab meeting this week. It’s so good and essential that it requires periodic revisiting, esp. as new folks join my group. Generates great discussion and introspection.
The authors also approach the topic with refreshing humility.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
The authors also approach the topic with refreshing humility.
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology
Selecting among competing statistical models is a core challenge in science. However, the many possible approaches and techniques for model selection, and the conflicting recommendations for their us...
doi.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Great paper by @Jesse Radolinksy, Michael Bahn and our colleagues showing how important changes in soil water mixing are: Drought in a warmer, CO2-rich climate restricts grassland water use and soil water mixing | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought in a warmer, CO2-rich climate restricts grassland water use and soil water mixing
Soil water sustains terrestrial life, yet its fate is uncertain under a changing climate. We conducted a deuterium labeling experiment to determine whether elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), w...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
January 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Excited to share that our paper on alpine vegetation dynamics on Australian mountain summits is out now! 🏔️ Huge thanks to coauthors @jwmorganecology.bsky.social, @susannavenn.bsky.social, and @jcamac.bsky.social
#Newarticle Hickman et al.’s long-term study finds that alpine summit vegetation responds multi-directionally to different, co-occurring drivers, with outcomes contingent on life history characteristics: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2429864
January 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#oneforjournalclub
Woody growth of coarse roots of deciduous trees continues throughout the winter!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Woody growth of coarse roots of deciduous trees continues throughout the winter!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No winter halt in below-ground wood growth of four angiosperm deciduous tree species - Nature Ecology & Evolution
As wood growth in deciduous tree stems halts during winter, it has been assumed that wood growth in coarse roots follows the same pattern. This study on the growth of stem and coarse roots of four Eur...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#oneforjournalclub
Woody growth of coarse roots of deciduous trees continues throughout the winter!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Woody growth of coarse roots of deciduous trees continues throughout the winter!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share our new #Nature article published yesterday. It showed that rainfall variability is almost as important as total annual rainfall amount in determining global vegetation dynamics.
Led by Feldman, with Konings, Gentine, Cattry, Smith, Biederman, Chatterjee, Joiner & Poulter
Led by Feldman, with Konings, Gentine, Cattry, Smith, Biederman, Chatterjee, Joiner & Poulter
December 13, 2024 at 3:52 AM