Checkout our new paper establishing the relationship between root economics traits and plant hydraulics. Led by Dr. Anvar Sanaei and I, we thank all the co-authors who contributed in this paper.

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 3w ago

On the relationship between root economics and plant hydraulic traits Sanaei et al. @anvarsanaei.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It's lovely to see many smiling faces at the New Phytologist Editor-in-Chief Symposium, 'Collections through time: legacy and innovation' taking place in Tartu, Estonia today! www.newphytologist.org/events/eics-...

📰 On the blog: When trees compete: How dynamic traits help them live together - buff.ly/Qf8YadP 🔍 Article: buff.ly/2TSg5Eh

Trait‐Dependent Time Lags Amid Global Change in Marine Observed and Dark Diversity on the Dogger Bank (North Sea) 🔗 buff.ly/hV6wKAb

Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means? With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces

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🌱Study reveals how competition drives dynamic shifts in plant traits, with species becoming more similar aboveground and diverging in root traits. Findings suggest that complementary trait shifts reduce competition & facilitate coexistence👉️ buff.ly/lZQoZvp

When trees compete, they don’t all respond the same way: they become more similar aboveground, but more different belowground. Our new paper shows that these opposite trait shifts can both ease competition and help species coexist. 🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shifts in above‐ and below‐ground trait dissimilarity under competition mediate the future impact of neighbours

Our findings reveal complementary above- and below-ground shifts in multidimensional trait dissimilarity in response to neighbours, providing new insight into potential mechanisms by which plants dea...

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Just before the Xmas break🎉 In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Above‐ and below‐ground trait coordination across 90 angiosperm and gymnosperm tree species in a common garden experiment

This research highlights the significance of elucidating the mechanisms behind above-and below-ground organs. The varying trait coordination across clades indicates different resource acquisition str...

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In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands, Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... Want to know more about it? 🧵

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications

In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

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Our new study highlights how competition-driven trait plasticity and growth suppression jointly obscure the link between plant functional traits and seedling growth. Huge thanks to @cpcarmona.bsky.social and Guochun Shen for their invaluable guidance and collaboration! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70259

Competition‐Induced Trait Variability Obscures Trait–Growth Relationships of Tree Seedlings

Our study reveals that competition fundamentally reshapes trait–growth relationships. Competition simultaneously increases individual trait variability while suppressing growth rates, forcing plants ....

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New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity. Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables. With @e-beccari.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

🗞️New publication🗞️ How do neighbourhood diversity effects on tree growth change with climatic conditions?🌳🌲🔆🌧️ We adress this question in our new study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Liting Zheng. www.nature.com/articles/s41... /w @liting-zheng.bsky.social, Peter Reich & #TreeDivNet

Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years - Nature Ecology & Evolution

How tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning vary along climatic gradients is unclear. Here, analysing data from 15 experimental forest sites, the authors show that tree growth responses to nei...

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Excited to share our latest article that bridges species coexistence, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships and plant-soil feedbacks! 🎉🎉🎉

Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · last yr.

Online now: Plant–soil microbial interactions as modulators of species coexistence and productivity

New paper w/ Jonathan Levine and @exp-evoeco.bsky.social! We induced plastic responses in annual plants through early-life competition. These responses tended to make subsequent species interactions stronger and coexistence less likely. Link: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Can’t wait to share a big seedling experiment (12,176 seedlings) I’m running in China👉 We are testing how trait variation & plasticity affect coexistence in changing environments. Woody plants aren’t easy — but we’re trying. This is also my first project funded by NSFC. Now waiting for them to grow.

Surprised to find a whole new world beyond Twitter! 🚪🔬 Still exploring… but hi BlueSky! 👋

The first paper from #darkdivnet is out now! Huge thank you to all our >200 co-authors who helped to reveal dark diversity in different parts of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...