🌿 Calling All IAVS Members! 🌍 The IAVS community is full of incredible people, fascinating ecosystems, exciting fieldwork, and innovative science—and we'd love to share your stories! 📩 Submit your story through our Google Form: tinyurl.com/mr23k86r #IAVS #VegetationScience

In experiments, high plant diversity usually leads to high ecosystem function and stability. But in nature, the same factors that determine plant species diversity may also affect stability. This means the results of BEF experiments don't always apply to natural systems. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

A salinity gradient mediates plant diversity–function–stability relationships across a coastal marsh landscape

Ecosystem function and stability are often positively related to species richness in experiments, but in nature, abiotic gradients may over-ride or obscure the effects of richness on function and sta...

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🌿 The International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) is a global community advancing the study of plant communities — their structure, dynamics, and conservation. Join a network of scientists passionate about understanding the world’s vegetation.

Dr Rachel Heyard joins us from the Centre for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis in Zurich to discuss funding lotteries and other innovations in research funding allocation on July 7th. Register here: events.humanitix.com/webinar-lott...

SORTEE Webinar: Lotteries and innovations in research funding allocation

SORTEE Workshop & Webinar Series

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🎉Great news! The paper ‘Cerrado plant traits (CPT): a database of functional traits across vegetation types in a global biodiversity hotspot’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Lara Amaral-Garcia et al. is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/10) 👉 doi.org/rdct @leveg.bsky.social #AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience

Just another busy (and productive!) day in the lab! 🔥🌱 A true #TeamWork effort today: from processing seed viability using tetrazolium to washing and cleaning belowground structures! ✨ @gabrieladezotti.bsky.social @luizmiguel.bsky.social

Time to get back home after an amazing conference. Thank you so much @iavs5.bsky.social it was lovely! A lot of new ideas to my PhD ☺️ Very proud of my amazing friend @leticiagiacom.bsky.social who was among the winners of the YS 💖✨

What does a “restored” ecosystem mean? If the climate is different... If species have moved... If habitats have changed... …what are we restoring to? If we keep measuring success against a world that no longer exists, we’re chasing ghosts. Featuring @jcsvenning.bsky.social

Is restoration chasing ghosts?

Restoration is often trying to recreate ecosystems that no longer exist — or can’t

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When science draws on a wider range of perspectives, it produces better questions, more creative thinking, and outcomes that matter to more people. This is often when breakthroughs occur. #PrideMonth

Got a great idea for a continental or global study on plant biodiversity? 🌍🌿 #sPlot is welcoming new research proposals that are global or continental in scope and complementary to ongoing projects. Meet the sPlot coordinator Gabriella Damasceno at #IAVS2026. Find more details below ⬇️

I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

📦 New in Journal of Vegetation Science! Barranco-Elena & Baraibar present barrel, an R package that streamlines ecological ordination plotting in R. With ggplot2 integration, it helps create reproducible, customizable, publication-ready figures. 🔗

Attending one of my favorites conferences of the year! IAVS (@iavs5.bsky.social) is always an awesome opportunity to meet new people, exchange ideas and have a lot of discussions! Hope to see everyone passing by my poster today 😉 (amazed with the opportunity to see Vellend speaking in person)

Truly honored to have been part of a week led by such knowledgeable and inspiring people - they really got me rethinking the way I approach science. Definitely one of the most meaningful experiences I've had so far. Thank you so much @exfumo.bsky.social! #GoBelowground in #Brazil was amazing! 🌱🇧🇷

Go Belowground!@exfumo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our #GoBelowground #course in #Brazil last week was a fantastic experience! Inspiring students, great discussions, and a wonderful chance to share the hidden half of plants with a new community. Thank you to everyone who made it so special! 🇧🇷🌱 #ExFuMo @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

New on the Belowground blog: A story about three little plants on the bottom of a pond plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a...

A story about three little plants on the bottom of a pond

A short story by  Jitka Klimešová with illustrations by F. Curtis Lubbe, from the Institute of Botany of The Czech Academy of Sciences. The illustration above shows a variety of…

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🚨Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are still OPEN. 👉Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via forms.gle/R1pTxmmxKwf2.... ✅ More at: www.sortee.org/upcoming

📢How do supervisory behaviours impact early-career researchers? Our preprint explores how scientific supervisors shape the wellbeing of ECRs. We analysed 2604 anonymous responses from ECRs across 65 countries🌍 to understand the impact of mentorship. This is what we found👇

Introducing * READMEBuilder * A shiny app that helps users build a high quality README to upload along with their data and code. Just install the package and run the build_readme() function to launch the app! github.com/EIvimeyCook/... Comments and suggestions welcome!

Don't miss the chance to enroll! Application deadline extended until May 7 at 3 PM (UTC-3) Não perca a chance de se inscrever! O prazo para inscrições foi prorrogado até 7 de maio, às 15h (UTC-3)

Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (LEVeg) 🌾@leveg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 First time in Brazil 🇧🇷 / Pela primeira vez no Brasil 🇧🇷 Special Topics: Go Belowground! Tópicos Especiais: Go Belowground! 18–22 May 2026, in person / presencial Apply 16–30 Apr / Inscrições 16–30 abr 20 spots/vagas Motivation letter in English.

📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViz

Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola Rennie

There are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier.

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#GoBelowground is going international again! 🇧🇷 This time we go to Brazil. #Functional #morphology #course Go Belowground! will bring students together to explore #storage organs, #clonal plants, and the hidden half of #plant life. #ExFuMo #ecology @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

Today, we are sharing our newest report, "Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data", which extends the open data practices originally designed for climate data in our 2023 report "Recommended Best Practices for the Better Sharing of Climate Data" to other disciplines. buff.ly/mkmMe2S

Licensing Best Practices for the Sharing of Scientific Data - Creative Commons

Creative Commons publishes the report Licensing Best Practices for Sharing Scientific Data, a guide for researchers and data producers.

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Would you like to join a welcoming community that is passionate about improving transparency, rigour, and equity in science? 👀 Check out SORTEE! You can join for free, if you like. Your support goes a long way in growing our impact 💚 👉 sortee.org/join/ #openscience #SORTEE

📢 First time in Brazil 🇧🇷 / Pela primeira vez no Brasil 🇧🇷 Special Topics: Go Belowground! Tópicos Especiais: Go Belowground! 18–22 May 2026, in person / presencial Apply 16–30 Apr / Inscrições 16–30 abr 20 spots/vagas Motivation letter in English.

🚨 🎉 Our CONSENSUS VIEW, “An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research,” is now out in @plosbiology.org 🎉 🚨 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

An international consensus on core reproducibility items in research

Evidence-based solutions are needed to help improve reproducibility in research. This Consensus View presents a consensus-based list of core reproducibility items for research that has been developed ...

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Want to learn more about ecological stability with a hands-on approach? Join us in the next cycle of free webinars! On April 24, Jules Segrestin will talk about drivers of stability in time series. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and consider becoming an IAVS member!

New blog post!🚨 The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/PZcecxJ

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Introducing ggauto: automating better charts – Nicola Rennie

The ggauto package is an opinionated ggplot2 extension package that aims to help people make better charts by default. This blog post explains why it exists and how it works.

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Get ready for the second webinar about open vegetation data, co-hosted with EVS! On March 27, Martin Večeřa, Salza Palpurina, and Ilona Knollová will show us how to get from a vegetation-plot database to a GBIF dataset. Join the meeting at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...