📖 Read our new research article! Incorporating D. herbacea and functionally similar understorey seaweeds into kelp forest restoration strategies highlights the value of more holistic, nature-based approaches 🪸 🐚 👉️ buff.ly/PwUmmWD

📖 New research 📖 These results suggest that promoting mixed forests could be an effective strategy to attenuate the impact of invasion by non-native forest pests 🌲 🕷️ 🌳 Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/aZn16Y6

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity safeguards ecosystem services and functions worldwide - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An analysis of a global database of 423 studies and >200,000 data points outlines the strength and generality of biodiversity relationships with ecosystem functioning and services.

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Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

Apply to be a Smithsonian post-doc! We are currently emphasizing invasive animals, including beasts like spotted lanternflies and emerald ash borers. 2year fellowships, stipend $60k/year, apps due October 15th. contact me if you'd like to work on a project idea!! serc.si.edu/fellowships/...

Hey folks I am recruiting for a phd position in tree thermal physiology. 🌐🌾🧪 Ad below. Applications due Dec. 1st www.unlv.edu/graduatecoll...

New field experimental study suggests tree diversity and mycorrhizal type are distinct drivers of multitrophic biodiversity, with greater effects belowground. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

Tree diversity and mycorrhizal type independently shape multitrophic biodiversity, with stronger effects belowground than aboveground - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tree diversity and mycorrhizal dominance are considered major drivers of multitrophic diversity and ecosystem functioning in forests. Here the authors disentangle the effects of these factors on above...

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📖 Drivers of complexity in ecosystem restoration This study shows that ecological complexity is empirically measurable, and its development in restoration can be influenced by key variables, which have mechanistic underpinnings🌱 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌲 This research provides new insights into identifying species compositions that enhance ecosystem services in the boreal-temperate ecotone 👉️ buff.ly/XqxZfES

Want to try forest LiDAR but don't know where to start? This new paper by Cushman et al. looks like a good introduction. 🧪🌳🌲https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.70730

Our paper has just been published in the latest issue of @nature.com! We analysed 318 food webs spanning marine, freshwater & soil ecosystems worldwide & found that ecosystem functioning increases consistently with biodiversity across multiple trophic levels. 🌐🧪🕷️🦠🍄🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning - Nature

Analyses of the relationship between taxon richness and multi-trophic ecosystem functioning across marine, lake, stream and soil ecosystems show that food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects...

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Gaughan et al. suggest that the preference of insect herbivores may play an important yet under-appreciated role in the destabilization of plant diversity. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event - Biological Invasions

The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are causing substantial humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical impacts and disrupting global trade. While the human and economic effects remain the focus of ...

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do you want to work on a new NSF project testing the influence of belowground processes on forest dynamics at the SERC BiodiversiTREE forest experiment? then apply for our new biological technician job: serc.si.edu/get-involved...

For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.

Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Mangroves recover, the cost of biodiversity loss, and a new way to visualize heat For decades, the world’s coastal mangrove forests were dis

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Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

Nature research paper: Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning go.nature.com/4gQIyfm

Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning - Nature

Analyses of the relationship between taxon richness and multi-trophic ecosystem functioning across marine, lake, stream and soil ecosystems show that food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning.

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Today is the last day to apply to our open PhD position working on plant-associated above-belowground fungal microbiomes across the Galapagos! Based at the amazing @niooknaw.bsky.social 🌱🍄

PhD: Biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos islands

In this project, you will investigate the biogeography of above- and belowground fungi associated with several Scalesia species. We aim to develop an integrated view of diversity and distribution of t...

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Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades

Global mangrove forests have disappeared rapidly because of deforestation but have also regrown through natural regeneration and restoration. Yet their long-term trends in extent and canopy cover rema...

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🌳 Greater tree diversity lowers soil carbon Q₁₀ by enhancing carbon stabilization and shifting microbial strategies. Diverse forests help lock away carbon and reduce climate feedbacks 👉️ buff.ly/DcNVNNW

🌲A global analysis of 6,550 observations shows that mixed-species plantations increase soil carbon and water holding capacity by about 10.5%. The greatest gains occur in conifer broadleaf mixtures in warm, wet climates through better soil structure 👉️ buff.ly/U3sA2l4

Damage by certain insects and fungi tends to be greatest in US woodlands where maximum temperatures during the warmest months are increasing. go.nature.com/4w4VxiP

Forest pests hit trees hard as temperatures rise

Damage by certain insects and fungi tends to be greatest in US woodlands where maximum temperatures during the warmest months are increasing.

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Mix matters: "Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future" @johndparker.bsky.social @us.theconversation.com (Plus- John James Audubon) See the forest: roughlydaily.com/2026/04/26/t...

📰Published📰How nutrient additions alter the productivity benefits of tree diversity🌳 buff.ly/qMDEihq 🧪🌍️

How nutrient additions alter the productivity benefits of tree diversity

Dai F. Saito, Friderike Beyer, Grégoire T. Freschet, Anja Klingler, Charles A. Nock, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Jürgen Bauhus This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology…

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🎉 Congratulations to ESA’s 8 new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows! These honorees are advancing ecological science through research, leadership, and service. Learn more about these individuals in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/Ao1V50YK00I

New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation

Bioindication reveals a 60-year shift toward denser, more productive vegetation, but a weak thermophilization signal.

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Mixed Forestation Outperforms Pure Stands in Soil Carbon Sequestration and Stability 🔗 buff.ly/wo5JGwc

🏝️Tree islands in oil palm plantations boost phytochemical diversity via natural regeneration. Bigger islands = more species + more chemical trait diversity 👉️ buff.ly/QHCCPqB

Nature research paper: The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity go.nature.com/4ve0bul

The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity - Nature

Across 17 forest plots (2.7 million trees, 5,400 species), competition dominated overall, but facilitation was relatively stronger near the equator and declined towards higher latitudes, partly linked to temperature, legumes, mycorrhizal associations and canopy nursing effect.

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