Progressive phosphorus limitation under rising CO₂ 🦠 stronger microbial phosphorus mobilization ♻️ accelerated recycling of organic phosphorus Belowground responses sustain productivity but depleted slow-turnover phosphorus #GlobalChangeBiology #AmazonForests onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Lucky me. I was able to visit the AmazonFACE site again and witness how ready to go we are! How will the largest tropical forest on Earth respondent to the elevated CO2? What do you think?

Our latest work in @pnas.org shows something surprising: the latest generation of P-enabled vegetation models do not predict a higher CO2 response with P fertilisation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Phosphorus enrichment does not enlarge the predicted CO2 fertilization effect on forest carbon sequestration | PNAS

The capacity of nutrient-limited forests to enhance carbon (C) sequestration under elevated CO2 (eCO2) remains a critical uncertainty in C cycle mo...

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Roots in the tropical Amazon changed their way to acquire more phosphorus under elevated CO2! That is as incredible as it sounds, and it means a whole lot for the future

Cornelia Rottensteiner@cornelia-cr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Elevated CO2 changes phosphorus dynamics of tropical rainforest soils 🌴🦠 Read more on root traits and AMF in this cool study by my colleague @loutsi.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How much carbon will intact tropical forests sequester in the future due to CO2 fertilization? Will phosphorus ultimately constrain the carbon sink in highly weathered soil? We still don’t have a satisfying answer to this. #AmazonFACE #TropicalForest

We only have one Amazon. It’s full of priceless wonders and sacredness. Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! | Amazon Watch

Add your voice to this global call in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples from across the Amazon.

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🌱 Great energy at our TropiRoot Fall 2025 meeting! Had a wonderful talk and discussions on several ongoing synthesis projects, data initiatives and new ideas for collaborative work on below ground dynamics! 👇 Read more and join us: 🔗 tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait #TropiRoots #Roots

Please join this starter pack if you are connected or interested to the TropiRoot Network. go.bsky.app/3jG9f7z

Could not make it to #BES2024 or to the cross-biome tree root trait and function session @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and I organized? No worries, I will summarize it here.

It was an absolute pleasure to be part of the thematic session at #BES2024 lead by @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social and @kaaze7.bsky.social. I presented work on holistic belowground functioning by the #sUnderfoot group including results from @josephtumber.bsky.social and @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social

Not a talk, but a *whole Thematic Session* about roots at #BES2024! Chaired by Katrin Fleischer @kaaze7.bsky.social and me! Hope to see y'all there tomorrow morning, or some other time at the meeting @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

TropiRoot Updates 📢📢📢 TropiRoot leadership team met today to discuss about some exciting stuffs: the upcoming leadership elections, new grant proposals and out reach efforts. If you are interested to joining us or learning more, please visit tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTra... #tropiroots

On Monday a large demonstration to stop higher education and research cuts will take place 🇳🇱 On Monday the Dutch government will revisit its shortsighted plans. A failure to do this creates a real setback that neither this nor next generations deserve. @woinactie.bsky.social #highered #academicsky

Hi there. I am Katrin and I work for and often enough in the Amazon rainforest. I want to understand how this magical forests functions belowground and build better models for it. Who wants to know more about that?

Going to BES this year? Come to our session on Tree roots and functions.

Monique WeemStar@moniqueweemstra.bsky.social · 2y ago

Only 2.5 wks until the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social meeting! Join us for cross-biome view on Tree Roots and Function chaired by @kaaze7.bsky.social and me. We invited awesome speakers: Claire Fortunel; Grace Handy; Oscar Valverde; Mateus Dantas; Meng Zhou; and @joanabergmann.bsky.social!

The eye knows. We know. It’s incredibly painful to just watch on while preventable collapse of our live support system unfolds.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's my column this week, about the astonishing moment in which we find ourselves: facing the greatest predicament humankind has ever confronted, and doing sweet FA about it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The long-planned protest against the mega cuts on higher education by the Dutch government has been cancelled. One day ahead. Smells like deliberate fear tactics to keep people quiet. nos.nl/l/2544350u

Onderwijsprotest geschrapt, Utrecht vreest geweld pro-Palestijnse demonstranten

De gemeente heeft de organisatie aangeraden om de betoging af te blazen, omdat een pro-Palestina-organisatie die mogelijk met geweld zou willen kapen.

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Potatoes, maize,cacao 🥔🌽🍫- things we eat daily. We are told who “brought them over” but we are hardly told who we should really thank. Ancient Amazonians cultivated them and many other foods already thousands of years ago in ingenious agroforestry style.

It’s not the time to give up. We are here and you all give me back good energy.

I made a list (or 'starter pack') of Land Surface Modelers, because that's the kind of thing one does on #bluesky. Please tell your friends and also (v. important) TELL ME if you want to be added. We need more people here! go.bsky.app/Mw4tJ3t

As we try to deduce how we got here, we shouldn't forget the billionaires who bought this election and spent decades promoting myths to delude us into accepting inequality and divide us by race, class, gender, religion & politics so we don't challenge their power. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10

Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit

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It’s understandable to despair and feel hopeless right now. Findings ways to unite and empower is needed more than ever. I just became monthly donor of amazonwatch.org.

Amazon Watch | Protecting the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples

For over 25 years, Amazon Watch has worked to protect the Amazon rainforest and defend the rights, lives, and territories of Indigenous peoples.

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I'm a climate scientist living in Texas who served as a lead author on the National Climate Assessment under the previous Trump administration. I witnessed first-hand its chilling impact on access to data, funding & publication of research, implementation of solutions, and scientists themselves. 🧵

Trump victory has sweeping climate change consequences

From the endorsement of climate denial to a brain drain of climate scientists, Trump's victory will bring major changes.

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Wombats are real. Humans share the world with wombats. Half of my life was wasted for not knowing. Happy wombat day.

Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"

Dass man in Berlin offenbar die #Anschlusszusage für Postdocs wieder kippen will, weil #WissZeitVG Möglichkeit zur Länderregelung bislang nicht explizit einräumt, zeigt: Das muss sich noch ändern, wir brauchen 1 #Länderöffnungsklausel! & übrigens, Berlin: Was für 1 fatales Signal an #IchBinHanna 👎

Amrei Bahr@amreibahr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Seit Samstag ist sie überall: die #Länderöffnungsklausel, die in Sachen #WissZeitVG doch noch Fortschritte bringen könnte. Was es mit diesem Vorschlag von @rosefeldt.bsky.social auf sich hat & warum aktuelle #BerlHG Entwicklung eindrücklich die Notwendigkeit einer solchen Klausel zeigt: #IchBinHanna

Our ambitious experiment in the Amazon rainforest - AmazonFACE FACE: Free Air CO2 Enrichment 6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg does growth keep increasing at high CO2? Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets