ITMN Seminar #32 with Dr. Paulo Bernardino June 16, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Uncovering shifts in dryland vegetation dynamics using satellites Register here: ethz.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Bernhard Schuldt
@bernhardschuldt.bsky.social
Plant Ecology - Ecophysiology - Plant hydraulics - Drought stress - Climate change
Don't miss the next seminar on the PSInet database by Kimberly Novick & Jessica Guo, which starts in 1h.
The International Tree Mortality Network@treemortality.bsky.social · 3mo agoTree Mortality Seminar tomorrow Tuesday 12th May with Kimberly Novick & Jessica Guo presenting The PSInet Database of plant water potential timeseries Register here: tu-dresden.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Interested in tree growth dynamics? Want to learn about dendrometers? Check out this new and promising global network!
Global Dendrometer Network@globaldendro.bsky.social · 3mo agoHello world! This is the Global Dendrometer Network 🌍. We have been founded by the growing community of researchers and practitioners working with high-resolution tree diameter measurements: from microscopic movements to forest-scale insights. 🌳 Join our mailing list here: forms.gle/ETPuNVCH7x89...
Great overview on recommended silvicultural actions for practitioners and students, but in German.
Arthur Gessler@arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 3mo agoÖkophysiologisch fundierte Waldbewirtschaftung ist kein Rezept, sondern ein Denkmuster: Wer versteht, warum Bäume bei Hitze und Dürre absterben, kann Massnahmen gezielt an Schwachstellen ausrichten @waldwissen.bsky.social : www.waldwissen.net/de/waldwirts...
Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪 The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦 @newphyt.bsky.social
Ecological drivers and phylogenetic patterns of leaf minimum conductance variability in vascular plants
Stomatal closure prevents significant water losses during drought events. Yet, leaves are not perfectly hermetic and dehydration ensues through residual water losses, known as minimum conductance (g...
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🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience? 🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺) 🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪 🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺 👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co
Great opportunity and team if you are interested in ecophysiology.
German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG)@plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 4mo ago#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob PhD position: Tree-water-relations - Sensing water potentials from leaf to stand scale In @simonhaber.bsky.social ‘s lab @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de Deadline: 15 April 2026 www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Awesome! I am looking forward watching the full video but already now I would claim it depends on the size of samples needed. Tree climbing for long branches, e.g. for hydraulic measurements, and drone for leaves or twiglets, for e.g. nutrient analyses or water potential measurements. Let's see.
Christina Hackmann@christina-hn.bsky.social · 4mo ago
Exciting research environment in a great team and a lovely working space
Simon Haberstroh@simonhaber.bsky.social · 4mo agoJob alert: We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral researcher in our CRC @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social to investigate water potential dynamics and water fluxes across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum 🌳🌲☀️🌧️ Come and join our team @chriswernerlab.bsky.social uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
We are looking forward to ITMN seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu to learn about tree mortality in Australian forests 🌳 🌲 🌏 Come and join us! 👇🏽
The International Tree Mortality Network@treemortality.bsky.social · 4mo agoITMN Seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu April 14, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Rising tree mortality across Australian forests Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Summer School "Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration" 16–21 August 2026; Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland Deadline: 30 April 2026 Applications can be submitted to: swissforestlab_summerschool@wsl.ch swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/veranstal...
Summer School - Forests for the Future
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Another PhD opportunity, joint project with colleagues from Prague on the future of beech in the Ore Mountains funded by the EU Interreg program. If you are interested in the effect of thinning and forest structure on high-resolution tree growth responses, see here: tu-dresden.de/stellenaussc....
Stellenausschreibung ID 12640
For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an excellent university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who would like to commit themselves, their achievements and productivity to the success of the whole institution.
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PhD opportunity: If you are interested in ecophysiology and tree water relations (subproject 2), less than a week left to apply.
Bernhard Schuldt@bernhardschuldt.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
Great guy, important topic ... Lars Vesterdal, University of Copenhagen - 🧪🍁 Soil and ecosystem carbon sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences on former cropland. -When: Wednesday 11 February 16.00 CET. ZOOM: cesnet.zoom.us/j/9212345086...
EXCELLENTIA_HE@excellentia.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨Join us on Wednesday, 11. February 2026, 16:00 CET (Prague) for🧪 #forest🍁#ecology #seminar. Welcome Lars Vesterdal, U Copenhagen 🌳🌲'Soil and ecosystem C sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences ...' ZOOM: excellentia.ldf.mendelu.cz/SEMINAR-SERIES
📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴 Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team. Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx #Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits
Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation Fischer et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7
We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
Stellenausschreibung ID 12588
In this project, the Chair of Forest Botany at the Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology offers, subject to the availability of resources, a project position as
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Worldwide, larger trees suffer most following extreme drought, which likewise seems to apply to European beech in response to the exceptional 2018/19 drought, see here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo.... Great work by @jsrieder.bsky.social as part of her DFG-funded PhD project BEECHDECLINE.
Redirecting
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If you are interested in ecohydrology and soil-plant-water relationships under drought, here's the chance to join a great team.
Anke Hildebrandt@ankehildebrandt.bsky.social · 8mo agoPhD opportunity Back to the roots! Can plants avoid water stress by moving water uptake to deeper soil? Find out in this IMPRS PhD project, coop with @chriswernerlab.bsky.social, @bernhardschuldt.bsky.social and a whole consortium investigating plant hydraulics 👉 More info: shorturl.at/66nBa
We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network. Join one of our upcoming sessions: 🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC t1p.de/m3gty 🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC t1p.de/xaxsu 🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC t1p.de/c4icd Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought : • Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought • Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own 🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
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We re-evaluate several root hydraulic paradigms and show that they are outdated (doi.org/10.1007/124_...). Thanks to @mutezahmed.bsky.social, @profchoat.bsky.social, @sdelzon.bsky.social, @peterpetrik94.bsky.social, @torresruizjm.bsky.social, @scottmcadam.bsky.social and others.
Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought
In vascular plants, the long-distance water transport between organs occurs under tension. Because it is difficult to study a system under negative pressure without measurement artefacts, the field of...
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*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪
Universität Basel: PhD position in alpine and arctic plant ecology
The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...
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New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social
🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough. 📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social "Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions" 🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy @irnase.bsky.social
