I'm excited to be the newest member of the Biology subdivision committee for Soil System Sciences at the @egu.eu, joining @nbilyera.bsky.social and @loutsi.bsky.social for the coming years 😊 #EGU26 #EGU27
Lucia Fuchslueger
@loutsi.bsky.social
Soil ecologist tracing roots and microbes in soil. Concerned about the climate.
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...
Amazonian understory forests change phosphorus acquisition strategies under elevated CO2 - Nature Communications
This study reveals how understory forest plants in the Central Amazon adapt their nutrient acquisition strategies in response to elevated atmospheric CO₂, based on an in situ open-top chamber experime...
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A Nathy arrasou muito nesse. Muito. Já estamos fazendo coisas complementares hihihi
Bori@borinasredes.bsky.social · 3mo agoVegetação amazônica se mostra competitiva e resiliente quando submetida a cenário simulado de aumento de gás carbônico e escassez de fósforo no solo. abori.com.br/ambiente/em-...
Vegetação amazônica se mostra competitiva e resiliente quando submetida a cenário simulado de aumento de gás carbônico e escassez de fósforo no solo. abori.com.br/ambiente/em-...
Plantas da Amazônia se reestruturam após aumento de CO2
Vegetação amazônica se mostra competitiva e resiliente quando submetida a cenário simulado de aumento de CO2 e escassez de fósforo no solo.
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The poster will show just a few result highlights, but we have plenty of data to discuss with anyone interested. So, please come and have a coffee and share your views. I hope my colleagues @loutsi.bsky.social & @andreasrichter.bsky.social will be around too...the more, the merrier
Can rainforests buffer rising CO₂ levels? 🌳🌍A new study by an international team, co-lead by Lucia Fuchslueger (@loutsi.bsky.social TER | CeMESS), reveals that the tradeoff comes at a cost. Learn more 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news-detail/... @natcomms.nature.com #AmazonRainforest
Amazon understory forests show short-term boost in CO₂ uptake – but this comes at a cost
Experimental increases in CO2 stimulated plant growth are facilitated by re-distributed root systems to extract nutrient resources more efficiently
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FACE-ing the Amazon's Future 🌳 The burning of fossil #fuels, megafires and land-use changes drive #CO2 levels up. How will that affect the #Amazon? 🤔 A spectacular international project is about to find out - and #ECH from #univie is on board. 🔍 ⤵️ @loutsi.bsky.social #COP30 #climate
FACE-ing the Amazon's Future
The burning of fossil fuels, megafires and land-use changes drive CO2 levels up. How will that affect the Amazon? Will the elevated carbon fertilise the forest, boosting leaves and roots so that they will store more CO2? Or will the nutrient-deficient soils nullify the fertilisation effect that works so well in glasshouses? A spectacular international project is about to find out - and ECH is on board.
ech.univie.ac.at
Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social. @loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...
Eight “Highly Cited Researchers” at CeMESS
CeMESS is proud to announce that eight of its researchers across all its four divisions have been named on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world's most highly cited researchers. This prestigious recogn...
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Organizer Thilo Hofmann @cemess.bsky.social, contributions from 30+ @univie.ac.at scientists, incl @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Stephan Krämer, @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ppjevac.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social, and @loutsi.bsky.social from our cluster.
Environmental Emergencies | iMooX
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Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...
Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too! Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment! Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at
cemess_vienna@cemess.bsky.social · last yr.CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
A 💥NEW STUDY💥 has found that warming depletes the Arctic soil’s nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions! ⛰️ The reason why? 🧵 ✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!
It was so exciting to speak in such a beautiful hall, and did the opportunity to talk about traits of tropical roots, and the @tropiroot.bsky.social initiative at the #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh this week!
Elsa Matthus@elsaelsam.bsky.social · last yr.@loutsi.bsky.social just talked about tropical tree species, and how knowing the belowground can help restoration efforts. Sweet talk, pretty venue at #rhizosphere6
Check out the poster by @daniarandi.bsky.social later today! Looking forward to learn more about halophyte microbiomes! #rhizosphere6
Dania Randi@daniarandi.bsky.social · last yr.Very happy to be in wonderful Edinburgh presenting a poster at the #rhizosphere6 conference. If you‘re around, come over to poster session today (Tuesday) to hear about reduced microbial consortia and root growth under salinity stress :)
If you are at #rhizosphere6 and interested in fine root functional traits, go talk to @elsaelsam.bsky.social from @zalf.bsky.social. If you (like me - tearfully) miss out on this event, check out the paper in the thread below 😉
International Society of Root Research@rootscientists.bsky.social · last yr.Next up at #rhizosphere6: @elsaelsam.bsky.social takes us on a journey about the extensions of the Root Economics Space! 🤩
Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi! The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!
Tropical Root Trait (TropiRoot)@tropiroot.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots
We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at tropiroottrait@gmail.com. Thanks
The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!
AmazonFACE está contratando pós doc. Vagas de: 1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese 2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento 3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico 4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos
Congratulations to Viktor Van de Velde from the UGhent and all the team to the publication of a chapter of his PhD thesis! We were investigating microbial soil P cycling rates in recovering forest after agricultural use in forests in the DRC, find out more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Gross soil phosphorus fluxes remain constant along forest recovery trajectories in Central Africa
Phosphorus (P) is crucial for ecosystem functioning, yet primary productivity in many tropical regrowth forests on highly weathered soils is assumed t…
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Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out
A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.
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We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots
Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden
📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking. If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!
Daniela Cusack@daniela-cusack.bsky.social · 2y agoGreat leadership meeting with @tropiroot.bsky.social this morning! Reach out if you are a tropical root researcher interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data with us!
How do soil microbes respond to climate change? Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!
Emily Solly@plantsoilemily.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you interested in soils, microbes and biogeochemistry? Join us at #EGU25 for session SSS4.5 ‚Soil microbial responses to climate change‘. With @loutsi.bsky.social @albertocanarini.bsky.social and Albert Brangarí we are thrilled to have @ashish-malik.bsky.social as solicited keynote speaker!
Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active! Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!
Andreas Richter@andreasrichter.bsky.social · 2y agoExcited to share our new study in @naturecomms.bsky.social showing that soil fungi, unlike bacteria, remain fully active under severe drought conditions, and also invest in synthesis of storage compounds. Led by the amazing @loutsi.bsky.social and Alberto Canarini. Thread 1/2 rdcu.be/d1Tyg