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Water Limits Radial Tree Growth More Than Light in an Everwet Subtropical Forest

We deployed automated point dendrometers on 35 trees representing three life history strategies in an everwet subtropical forest with 3500 mm rain annually and no pronounced dry season. Contrary to t....

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Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - good to see our #MetabolicScalingTheory predictions we made for scaling of hydraulic resistance and xylem anatomy hold up in some of the tallest trees #allometry #megabiota 🧪🌾🌐

Height does not impair the hydraulic system of the tallest tropical Dipterocarp trees

Half of the aboveground biomass in forests is stored in a disproportionately small number of very tall trees. These giants are predicted to be more vulnerable to drought-induced damage because height ...

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Huge thanks to Mario @lepidodendron.bsky.social and Dieter Uhl at @sgn.one for letting @thibault-durieux.bsky.social and me rummage through the Senckenberg Devonian collections the last three days. Saw some wild fossil xylem in there among incredible pieces like these slabs of Trimerophyton.

📢 New Paper @royalsociety.org Our new study traces palm evolution to uncover how genome size, trait evolution, and allometry have shaped biodiversity @renskeonstein.bsky.social @biggenomes.bsky.social WilliamBaker SidonieBellot Link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @idiv-research.bsky.social #sDiv

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Shoot apical meristem and vascular development of a late Paleozoic spermatophyte (Order Medullosales) by Portailler & Luthardt. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/qr8r #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

📣 It's out ! ✨32✨ great #paleobotany papers in this special issue of @annbot.bsky.social on fossil #plants 🌿⛏️ edited by Mihai Tomescu, @sandyheth.bsky.social, Brian Atkinson & myself. Thank you to all the authors & all the reviewers for their contributions! 📄 academic.oup.com/aob/issue

Welcome to our Paleobotany Week! 🌎During the next few days, @annbot.bsky.social will be highlighting articles from the Special Issue "Milestones and trends: the role of the fossil record in reconstructing plant evolution" 💡Stay tuned! #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #FossilPlants #PlantScience

Decoupled carbon assimilation and growth responses to aridity in temperate deciduous oaks Led by @mukund24rao.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Decoupled carbon assimilation and growth responses to aridity in temperate deciduous oaks

Long-term carbon sequestration as woody biomass in oaks is decoupled from photosynthesis and more sensitive to climate change.

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🚩Many thanks to @czechacademy.bsky.social for supporting #GoBelowground course on #Functional #Morphology (Czech Republic on 13–19 Sep 2026) The fee is now significantly lower and the deadline has been extended! #PlantEcology #Root #Anatomy #ExFuMo #clonal Apply ▶️ 1url.cz/leRBL

And the paper is now available online (open access) 🌿⛏️🎉 A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia | Palaeontologia Electronica doi.org/10.26879/1640 #paleobotany

Devonian plant from Australia

A new anatomically preserved species of Keraphyton (Iridopteridales) from the Upper Devonian of Australia

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Anne-Laure D 🌿@aldpaleo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The paper is not online yet but it's too pretty not to show for this #FossilFriday: a new species of Keraphyton from the Late Devonian of Australia, part of the work of @toinechampreux.bsky.social. Keraphyton is an iridopteridale, an extinct group related to ferns & horsetails. #paleobotany 🌿⛏️

Glad to see this little review published! Do you want to read about the challenges of integrating molecular and fossil data in plants? Check this out for free! With amazing illustrations by Emma Antonena doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Freshly published! My new paper exploring Aquatic Plants as part of a special issue on Plant Evolution in @currentbiology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1nEdl3QW8S... @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

Nobody: what is a tree, anyway? Us:  authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... (Review out today, in which we ask whether xylem disconnection arising early in wood anatomy is convergent with disconnection seen across tall plants and whether tree evolution requires disconnection given periodic drought.)

Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

I'm very happy to welcome Dr. @thibault-durieux.bsky.social to the Plant Ecophysiology group at @unihohenheim.bsky.social. Thibault's exciting @humboldt-foundation.de project will immerse us deeper than ever in the fossil record over the next two years. Looking forward to the journey!

Happy to share a wonderful collaborative effort led by #ForestIsbell, showing how resistance and recovery predict stability www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery - Nature

New predictions for how temporal stability and resilience depend on their resistance and recovery components are explored.

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The last paper from @thibault-durieux.bsky.social's PhD, discussing the architecture of Cladoxylon based on specimens from the early Carboniferous of France, is now published in @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany 📃 doi.org/10.1086/739852

Installing #microclimate loggers is always fun, but especially if you decide to study #forest microclimate in 3D 🍁

We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Our blog "Plant Life Belowground" celebrates two years anniversary. Thanks Curtis Lubbe, the editor! Read and share, ecologists need to learn more about belowground!

Jitka Klimesova@jitkaklimesova.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New on the Belowground blog: What can root architecture tell us about fine root traits? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/w...

our cluster is searching for a technical assistant for supporting joint plant phenotyping experiments to be carried out at the University of Hohenheim www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

Job vacancies: University of Hohenheim

Current job opportunities at the University of Hohenheim

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We are looking for a new PhD student: Parallel Evolution of Clonality in Angiosperms www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...

Graduate Student Position (M/F) 0204

Graduate Student Position (M/F) in Parallel Evolution of Clonality in Angiosperms...

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Secondary Growth and Exodermal Barriers Shape Local Root Hydraulics: Modeling Insights in #Tomato by Marco D’Agostino, Rémy Schoppach, Adrien Heymans, Valentin Couvreur, Guillaume Lobet doi.org/10.64898/202... via @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social #PlantScience #RootScience

This morning I solved a little scripting problem in ~ 10 minutes. ChatGPT failed to solve it after 40 minutes. Claude failed to solve it in 20 minutes, then tried to convince me that I wanted to solve a different problem. This is why we don't let LLMs near any @epic-biodiversity.org code.

Out in @science.org this week. Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience #ecophysiology

Soils drive convergence in the regulation of vascular tension in land plants

Terrestrial vascular plants operate under negative water potential, which results in hydraulic tension in the vascular system. Vascular tension varies with transpiration and soil drying and is regulat...

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This is an incredibly useful read! How I’m learning to navigate academia as someone with ADHD www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Working with drylands and/or (semi-)arid catchments? Please consider our session on hydrological processes in dryland catchments www.egu26.eu/session/55943

#TansleyInsight | On growth and flow: hydraulic aspects of aboveground meristems @jalonsos.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal