Mapping mountain pine remains a challenge, particularly in steep Alpine terrain where Pinus mugo forms dense krummholz thickets that are difficult to separate from surrounding vegetation and hard to survey on the ground. In our new study led by Basil Tufail, we explore the potential of Sentinel-2…

New open-access paper out @consbiog.bsky.social: “How Five Decades of Land-Cover Change Reshaped Suitable Habitat for Puerto Rican Tree Species.” 🇵🇷 🧪 Led by recent PhD grad @laura-moro.bsky.social #LUQLTER 🌱🌱🌱🚜🌱🌱🌱 ➡️ 🌳🌴🌳🌳🌴🌳 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

How Five Decades of Land‐Cover Change Reshaped Suitable Habitat for Puerto Rican Tree Species

Aim Human land-use has dramatically altered the amount, quality and connectivity of habitat for species worldwide. Understanding how these changes affect individual species is essential for predicti...

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New in Applied Vegetation Science: Dzizyurova et al. mapped South Manchurian mixed forests by satellite and found just 4145 km2 remain, only 20% of their potential range. Highly fragmented and largely confined to protected areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New in Journal of Vegetation Science: Rahmani et al. mapped competitor, stress-tolerator and ruderal plant strategies in an Iranian wetland using free Sentinel-2 satellite data, with competitive species central and ruderals around the edges. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌲 How do trees decide where to invest their carbon at the highest elevations they can survive? Carbon Allocation at Species’ Upper Limits: Treeline Betula ermanii vs. Nontreeline Picea jezoensis on the Changbai Mountain. https://bit.ly/4coyLKv

What happens when a glacier retreats and leaves new ground behind? Prof. Ingolf Kühn@ingolfkuehn.bsky.social & colleagues are taking vegetation monitoring into glacier forefields of Northern Limestone Alps to follow succession from bare ground to established plant communities doi.org/10.5194/we-2...

Trees on Puerto Rico were found to have considerable intraspecific variation in drought resistance. Thus, they have a potential to adapt to a drier climate. For tropical trees, this is an important finding, as such a change in climate is expected. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species intraspecific variation drives tropical forest drought resistance - Nature

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier fo...

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I am looking for potential candidates interested in applying for an external postdoctoral fellowship in my lab at Uppsala University. If you want to work on buzz pollination please get in touch. Reach me by email. More about our current work here: plant-evolution.org/wp/

New in Journal of Vegetation Science: Myrsky et al. found old reindeer corrals in Fennoscandia still show graminoid vegetation decades later. Suboceanic and continental tundra diverged further, forb richness rose only in suboceanic corrals. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⚒️🗾Human activities and topographical heterogeneity shape Pinus L. species richness patterns in North America vist.ly/5gc68 #ClimateSeasonality #Hotspots #HumanActivities #Pinus #StructuralEquationModeling #TopographicalHeterogeneity

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Cerrado plant traits (CPT): a database of functional traits across vegetation types in a global biodiversity hotspot doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

We have prepared a major update (version 2) of EVA-MAP - www.evamap.eu - an interactive online application for visualizing vegetation plots included in the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases, with many new visualization options.

✅📄Now Free Access: Diversity patterns and knowledge gaps of Atlantic Forest epiphyllous bryophytes: a highly neglected group Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Diversity patterns and knowledge gaps of Atlantic Forest epiphyllous bryophytes: a highly neglected group

AbstractBackground. Epiphyllous bryophytes are a group of plants with complex adaptations to colonize the leaves of vascular plants and are considered one

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Our new study led by Tuuli Rissanen tackles a fundamental challenge in biodiversity monitoring: how do we choose species that tell us something useful about biodiversity change? 🌿 Collaboration between @rececochange.bsky.social @luke.fi doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Informing indicator species selection by combining species associations and environmental responses

Biodiversity is changing at an unprecedented pace, underscoring the need for effective and scalable ecological monitoring. Yet selecting which species to monitor remains a major challenge. Indicator ...

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Increase in plant productivity in the tundra in Sweden is not related to increasing presence of warm-adapted vascular plant species vist.ly/5fk2e #Arctic #Vegetation #NDVI

Explanation of the low temperature range limit of trees at high elevations Yang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MAKIHA...

Nochmal Wildnis: Diese neue Arbeit zeigt eindrucksvoll, dass die bloße Pflanzensukzession nach 70 Jahren auf 3 Plots in eine drastische Artenverarmung führt, noch dazu mit Dominanz eines Neophyten. Trotz Reh & Wildschweins. Ich bleibe dabei: Ohne große Pflanzenfresser macht Wildnis keinen Sinn.

Martin Diekmann is also one of us in the Swedish Phytogeographical Society. His doctoral thesis ”Deciduous forest vegetation in Boreo-nemoral Scandinavia” was published in our Acta Phytogeographica Suecica in 1994, one of the last theses in the monograph form.

The International Association for Vegetation Science@iavs5.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meet our Vice President Martin Diekmann! 🌿 #IAVS #Vegetation #Timeseries #Conservation #Forests #Grasslands

Range-wide #Tsuga tree decline driven by abrupt climate changes in mid-Holocene America 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Bryan N. Shuman @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Read the paper: Bacterial communities on upper and lower leaf surfaces show distinct seasonal response patterns nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/EJDDXH...

🧬 #PlantConservationWeek 🌿 Monitoring genetic diversity of Torminalis glaberrima for resilient forests in the face of population fragmentation by Lila Afifi and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rh58 #PlantConservation #ConservationGenetics #PlantScience #Botany

📖 This study demonstrates planting-year climate can predict the cover of frequently occurring species and major compositional groups in prairie developing from seed🌱 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A study testing back-transformation methods for the Braun-Blanquet cover scale finds that TURBOVEG's default approach consistently and substantially inflates diversity metrics like Shannon and Simpson indices. Read the full study: doi.org/10.3897/VCS....

Translation of the Braun-Blanquet scale to percent in TURBOVEG can bias diversity metrics

Background: The majority of vegetation plots has been and still is being recorded on ordinal scales, meaning that the values have to be back-transformed to percent for many typical analyses. Little is...

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Underground fungal networks come into 3D view without disturbing plant roots www.tum.de/en/news-and-... Read the paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #fungi

3D Imaging Reveals Underground Plant–Fungal Networks

A new TUM method reveals how plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi interact in soil, offering insights for climate-resilient and drought-tolerant crops.

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✅📄Now Free Access: Bark investment is key to forest expansion into African savannas by conferring resistance to fire and seasonal drought Get the paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

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Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are only three days left to apply for our Commissioning Editor role! ⏰ Join our global Editorial Board & play a crucial role in inviting innovative ideas via commissioning Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives & Policy Directions 📖 Apply here 👇 apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

Island #biodiversity in the #Anthropocene - see our new paper on how people have reshaped island biota & ecosystems, just out in Science Advances, led by Tom Matthews & nicely summarized by @ferransayol.bsky.social below 🏝🦤🦤🐒

Ferran Sayol@ferransayol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)

Interesting in how humans have altered the biogeography of islands? Our review just out >>> Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

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#TansleyReview: Mechanisms and scales in modeling forest responses to changing disturbance regimes Xu et al 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Range expansion and climatic niche divergence-driven vicariance shaped historical biogeography of Leonticeae (Berberidaceae) across the Northern Hemisphere doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Range expansion and climatic niche divergence-driven vicariance shaped historical biogeography of Leonticeae (Berberidaceae) across the Northern Hemisphere

AbstractBackground and Aims. The historical biogeography of the Northern Hemisphere has long been of interest to botanists and biogeographers. Numerous stu

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