www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/... Write up by Douglas Fox about the recent @globalchangebio.bsky.social paper by Riley Fortier, @kjfeeley.bsky.social, @forestplots.bsky.social, and others. They re-visited trees sampled by Alwyn Gentry 40 years ago and assessed changes in leaf traits.

The Amazon's Trees May Be Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point

Over the past 40 years, the same Amazon trees growing in Peru have started growing thinner, flimsier leaves. Scientists worry they’re being pushed to the brink.

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PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

If anyone would like to see a photo of a very happy doggy with his favourite dog toy, then this is your lucky day.

Being in nature promotes empathy, self-kindness and a feeling of connection 🪴🌱🌳 🏞️🌿☘️☺️ connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

How being in nature improves life satisfaction

Existing outdoors in nature is good for humans both mentally and physically. It’s a well-documented phenomenon! Though why this is the case is still being explored.New research has discovered one mech...

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New publication led by former postdoc Emmanuel Eze. We found that warm-grown tropical tree saplings consistently had higher leaf heat tolerance than controls. The VPD at elevated temperature had no effect on this acclimation. connectsci.au/fp/article/d...

Poplar plantations can reconnect forests, but location is key: www.earth.com/news/poplar-...

Poplar plantations can reconnect forests, but location is key

Poplar plantations can help reconnect fragmented forests for birds, but only when placed strategically, new research shows.

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Big day for me today! I presented my master's thesis project for the first time at the internal Botany symposium at UBC, and on the same day my first first-author paper was published in @biotropica.bsky.social Really grateful for everyone who has supported me along the way! doi.org/10.1111/btp....

Huge #congrats to @juan-camilo-mejia.bsky.social on his first publication, just out in @biotropica.bsky.social! Awesome thermal leaf ecophysiology work done at #STRI with @martijnslot.bsky.social. 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication in @biotropica.bsky.social with former lab members @juan-camilo-mejia.bsky.social and Roxana: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... We found that net photosynthesis and Vcmax were lower at midday than in the morning, but no evidence of significant changes in leaf heat tolerance

🌸🌼Join us to learn about the newly published “Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems” in @annbot.bsky.social by @ibrahim-salman.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵1/8 👉 doi.org/qxxv @martijnslot.bsky.social #PlantScience #AoBpapers

New review paper led by postdoc Ibrahim Salman: Warming effects on floral volatile organic compounds and plant–pollinator interactions in tropical ecosystems. Now online @annbot.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Finished my third departmental seminar in 3 weeks. Thanks to my hosts @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social in Utah, @seanmichaletz.bsky.social at UBC, and Michelle Mack at NAU, their labs, and of course my own wonderful team!

Temporal decoupling of #carbon #source and sink processes in temperate trees: insights from combined measurements of #remote #sensing and #xylogenesis 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Leng et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Environmental conditions drive variation in C4 photosynthetic capacity more than species traits Fan, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @yuzhenfan.bsky.social

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 425 ppm in August 2025 10 years ago August averaged about 399 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny! www.researchgate.net/publication/... @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

Slow-growing trees in arid environments live longer 🧪🌱

Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity - Communications Earth & Environment

Trees in harsh environments exhibit higher longevity globally, particularly arid-adaptive gymnosperms whose extended longevity is linked to slow growth rates and high drought resilience, as revealed b...

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My paper on the mystery of the vanishing methane at Mayberry wetland is out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ag.... Many thanks to all the people who made this paper possible by gathering one of the longest continuous records of CH4 eddy covariance data in the world (14 yrs and counting!) @biometlab.bsky.social

Happy to be part of this effort led by CrisRuedas and the caminos network, which has just been published today. In it we review what has been done on pollination research in the tropical Andes and propose new lines of research. Pollination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #ECOSENSE paper out! doi.org/10.1002/eco.... Congrats to Stefanie Dumberger and @simonhaber.bsky.social for their first first-author respectively senior-author paper 👏 Check out their research on species-specific drought tolerance linked to the xylem profile 🧪🌲🌡️ #ClimateChange #Forest #DFG

Dynamic Shifts in Radial Sap Flow of Two Temperate Tree Species in Response to the Dry Summer 2022

Species-specific regulation of water fluxes and storage in the xylem are important drivers of drought tolerance. However, differences may occur along the radial profile of the xylem, potentially modi...

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🚨 New R package! 🚨 balancR provides tools for data balancing + robust scaling analysis, based on our recent Global Ecology & Biogeography paper: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... Co-developed with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social Check it out 👉 michaletzlab.github.io/balancR/

Please spread the word! Authors based in Latin America receive discounts from 35-100% when they publish in #AppsPlantSci, thanks to Wiley's Open Access Pricing Power Parity Pilot (OAPPP Pilot). Discover your discount at authorservices.wiley.com/author-resou... #OpenAccess #SocietyJournal #botany

Exploring A-Ci curves in C4 grass! This is my first time analysing CO₂ response for a C4 plant using the LI-6800 dynamic assimilation technique. Understanding the productivity and resilience of these tropical forages. 🌱 ✨

Plant phys folks - question- can city lights increase PAR that much to increase growing seasons? Somewhat skeptical of a PAR impact - but suspect that the warming and artificial water and fertilization signal is much much larger 🌾🌐

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Satellite data indicate that artificial light in urban areas can extend plant growing seasons by up to three weeks compared to rural regions, with the effect most pronounced at the end of the season. doi.org/g9qgz9

I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Bombings, gun attacks leave 4 dead in southwest Colombia - https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/bombings-gun-attacks-leave-4-dead-in-southwest-colombia

Bombings, gun attacks leave 4 dead in southwest Colombia

At least four people were killed in Colombia on Tuesday as the country’s southwest was rocked by a string of 19 coordinated bomb and gun attacks,...

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New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.