#traits🌿
🌿 Both species adjusted their morphological traits under long-term pine cultivation, but crucially, they were still able to resprout after biomass removal, recovering leaves, height, and ramets over time. (6/9)
January 30, 2026 at 11:46 AM
New paper alert🔔My last PhD chapter is published📣
Our new study explains how the ratio of sapwood to leaf area🌿varies with hydraulic traits and climate on a global scale. Our theoretical model can capture almost 60% of trait variation.
Stay tuned! Blog is on the way
Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles

Xu et al. @huiyingxu.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social

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January 28, 2026 at 8:12 PM
do you vibe with me 🌿

Link: poomang.com/en/t/mymood_...
January 24, 2026 at 8:31 PM
🌿🔍 Herben & Prach connect species presence along successional series with disturbance niches. Frequency, severity, and colonization ability relate to traits such as lifespan, clonal growth, dispersal mode, and seed banks.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I've also made a fancy shmancy trope map page if any of these archetypes catch your eye! #⚔️🌿🌼
This story covers mature themes, as well as portrays the ugliness of grief, religious trauma, and learning to embrace your sexuality/identity to live proudly in defiance against a cruel system. 2/3
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
🌿🔥 Hopkins & Lindo demonstrate that warming drives species-specific shifts in Sphagnum mosses, linked to traits for water retention. Declines in moisture-demanding species may alter peatland hydrology and carbon storage.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
🕊️ Did you know? Doves and pigeons are part of the same family, and they’re found all over the world! From city streets to peaceful gardens, these fascinating birds have a lot of interesting habits and traits.

Check out our Dove & Pigeon page for more information on these amazing birds! 🌿✨
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
We focused on traits likely shaped by Cape Verde’s short growing season and nutrient-poor volcanic soils:
⏱️ Flowering time
🍃 Rosette size
🌿 Photosystem II efficiency (ΦPSII)
These traits connect directly to survival in a tough environment.
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 AM
🆕 The new issue of @annbot.bsky.social is now online!

🌿 Plant anatomy & functional traits
🧬 Phylogenetics & lineage diversification
🌸 Floral development & pollination
🌍 Environmental stress, climate extremes & adaptation
🧪 Genomics & gene regulation

New issue 👉 botany.fyi/pa45hq

#PlantScience
January 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM
4/🧵 Why does it matter? 🌍

Most biodiversity models rely on recent data, but ecosystems evolve over millennia! ⏳🌱
🌿 VegVault bridges the gap between past & present vegetation
📊 Helps linking functional traits to past & present vegetation
🔥 Supports research on ecosystem responses to
#ClimateChange
a map of the world showing the temperature in 1882 and 1886
ALT: a map of the world showing the temperature in 1882 and 1886
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM
1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒
VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers.
🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault
📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
January 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM
The January issue of Functional Ecology features our Arctic fox study showing how mechanistic models that combine species traits, landscape features, and energy-based behaviour help better quantify interactions in natural communities. A bit technical but very interesting. Read: urls.fr/DRn3xm
🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 AM
⛰️ How altitude reshapes plant–soil strategies!
A JFR study from subtropical China shows rising elevation drives plants toward fast nutrient-acquisition traits, while soil moisture and nutrients steadily decline.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #MountainForests 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
January 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM
✨🌿 [ OC ] biiiiig stretch!

drawing stray like the feral little creature she is has always been fun, esp giving her more animalistic-ish traits (mostly because she was a lab experiment and therefore doesn't really know how to "behave")

#oc #ocart #ocsky #art #digitalart #artmoots
January 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Published!📖

The trade-offs in plant root traits influence the adaptation and community dynamics in heterogeneous habitats. These findings highlight the pivotal role of root chemical traits and intraspecific plasticity in facilitating the adaptation of pioneer plants🌿

Read more: buff.ly/IuwCsIX
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Important field study by @journalofecology.bsky.social🌳
Small-scale nutrient dynamics shape root traits and ecosystem processes in forest understory plants.
Explore more such research on forest ecology in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676
#ForestEcology #Research 🌺🌱🌿
Published!📖

In a forest field experiment, we show that, at small-scale, increased nutrient availability consistently alters root traits of Vaccinium myrtillus while nutrient heterogeneity only increased trait variation in phosphatase activity🌳 🏔️ 🌲

Read here:https://buff.ly/sy2DkDe
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🌊🐟 New #BAAE article: Introducing fwtraits, an R package unlocking freshwater ecological parameters from FWE!

Easily access traits for fishes, inverts, plants & algae to power reproducible biodiversity analyses and identify critical habitats. 🌿📊

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Published!📖

This study showed that the soil animal community living in the litter, known as a so-called “house made of food,” was more strongly determined by litter traits related to habitat provisioning functions than by the traits explaining food quality🐜 🌿

Read more:https://buff.ly/CTRCuCo
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌿💧🔬 VIEWPOINT 🌿💧🔬

"Rediscovering duckweed's value: uniting to advance its research system and applications" - Yang et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A bunch of Katragoons escaped my art folders! ✨

These are 25 USD each! You can claim a bean through here:
www.deviantart.com/wolfusimagiu...

🌿[ #adopts #adoptables #art #artsky #closedspecies #fantasyart #furryart #fursale #katragoons #sale ]
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
📖 Published!

We show the correlation between fine root traits and soil microbial communities in a tropical forest common garden🦠 🌿 🌷

Read more here:https://buff.ly/zn87fPy
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Traits caused by another organism

🦩: pink thanks to🦐
🦥: green thanks to🟩(🔬🌱)
🦟: fertile thanks to🩸
🐸: toxic thanks to🐜
🐡: toxic thanks to🦠
🐙: toxic thanks to🦠
🦑: glowing thanks to🦠
🐄: herbivorous thanks to🦠
🦏: bug-free thanks to🐦
🧍‍♂️: alive thanks to🌳🟩🌾🌿…
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
1/5 Dense branching🌿and spines are common in plants under high mammalian herbivory. This paper by Anest et al. (2024, Nature Plants) shows how these traits combine into powerful defensive cage architectures. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s414... #Evolution #Botany #Ecology @artemisanest.bsky.social
Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems - Nature Plants
This study explores the evolution of two traits, branching density and spine presence, in the globally distributed plant family Combretaceae. These traits were found to have appeared in a two-step pro...
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oil Painting Splendour ✨️

Nano Banana Pro 🍌

1️⃣ Open Google Gemini ai 〽️
2️⃣ Select 📸
3️⃣ Write Prompt 🌿

Prompt in Alt ⤵️

#AiArtwork #AIArt #GoogleGemini #AIphoto #AIArtCommunity #AIphotography #Text #Gemini #GeminiAI #AIPrompt
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
While Europe froze under ice sheets, the Indian subcontinent never saw an Ice Age. Proof? This 37,000-year-old thorned bamboo fossil from Manipur. 👇

Europe was buried. We were thriving. 🌿
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM