Join us for our final #Symposium! Featuring amazing keynote speakers, and lively discussions on forest dynamics, tree species mixing, and the introduction of non-native timber species Don't miss out! 📍 Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen 🗓 6–8 October, 2026 👉 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/final+sym...

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to *September 8th* 🍂 Open to students and early career researchers working in mixed forests 🌲🌳

EnriCo - Uni Goettingen@enricounigoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

#Poster wanted! Don't miss the chance to present your work at our interdisciplinary forest research #Symposium on mixed forests et al. 🌲🌳 📍Göttingen University 🗓 6-7 October, 2026 More infos and registration: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/final+sym...

#forestecol 🍁 #Poster wanted! Don't miss the chance to present your work at our interdisciplinary forest research #Symposium on mixed forests et al. 🌲🌳 *Deadline for submission: Sept 8 *Participation free of charge 📍Göttingen University 🗓 6-7 Oct 2026 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/final+sym...

#Poster wanted! Don't miss the chance to present your work at our interdisciplinary forest research #Symposium on mixed forests et al. 🌲🌳 📍Göttingen University 🗓 6-7 October, 2026 More infos and registration: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/final+sym...

Hättet ihr gedacht, dass #Nitrat auch unter Waldgebieten zum Thema werden kann? Carolin Winter hat die Nitratbelastung von Aquiferen unter Waldgebieten im Kontext des Klimawandels erforscht und erklärt uns im neuesten Interview diese spannenden Zusammenhänge! Hört gerne rein! #Soilcast

"...The underlying dominance structures [in tree communities] develop surprisingly early and they persist." (I am trying hard not to secretly anthropomorphise 💀) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @journalofecology.bsky.social #forestecol 🌳

Get out of the starting block quickly—Small initial differences in seed and seedling size affect tree survival and growth over 25 years

Our study illustrates how intense intraspecific competition processes operate at very early developmental stages among even-aged tree cohorts, following the general pattern of self-thinning. We showe...

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"Gender parity will only be achieved at the highest ranks if hiring rates are jointly equalized across gender, academic rank and discipline." royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

The compounding costs of being female in academia: individual-based modelling of career progression and interventions

Abstract. We develop a novel individual-based population-dynamics model of academic career progression, using 15 years of data from over 1000 academics fro

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Who cares about nitrate concentrations in water! Babies. More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... So to not upset babies, lets not plant pure Douglas fir forests everywhere. More here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @enricounigoe.bsky.social #forestecol

Nitrate in drinking water and preterm birth: a national retrospective cohort study in New Zealand

Preterm birth (PTB) is a leading cause of mortality in children aged <5 years, and survivors experience increased chronic morbidity. Emerging evidence…

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Who wants to count bugs in dead spruce forests for their thesis? With @bmwildermuth.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social in collab. with PoToMa Project; www.idiv.de/education/ba... www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/44572/pot...

Bachelor's and Master's Theses | iDiv

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New publication led by Postdoc Thomas Muratore on a long-term soil warming and N addition experiment @harvardforest.bsky.social together with an amazing group of collaborators and trainees (including @ncharisoil.bsky.social, Grady Welsh, Serita Frey, Benton Taylor and TWO REU students)

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How do trees change the carbon they release belowground as forests warm? Muratore et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JZIATM...

Clearcuts are a tough environment for fieldwork at almost 40°C 🌞 But let's see what the beetles and microclimate loggers have to say about that 🪲🪵 #PoToMa @mrakklara.bsky.social @fboetzl.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

New Enrico paper out about tree ecophysiology! By synthesizing sap flow and dendrometer measurements, we show that isohydric Douglas fir 🌲 experiences earlier drought-induced declines in stem water status than anisohydric beech 🌳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wood Warbler are beautiful summer migrants and seem to be holding their own in the Conwy Valley. @penrhynbirder.bsky.social has been surveying the population over the past few years and finding some fascinating trends, while @birdsandbikes.bsky.social ringing dedication is impressive #birdingwales

"Why do you have to constantly poke at something why cant you just let the forest do what it wants" #forestecol 🌳🌲 PoToMa deadwood research: www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/44572/pot...

www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/68189/col... Happy to be back in the forest 🌲 (mostly dead forest, but that's applied forest ecology these days) Great crew from the PhD days, thanks @mrakklara.bsky.social for initiating & coordinating Let's see whether spiders care about deadwood management! 🕷️

Some dirt digging and a bug (a Carabus) 🌳🌲

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

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🌳About the felling of city trees: www.lss.ls.tum.de/toek/forschu... #forestecol

Belated paper update from February: A new study by @sarawinterfeldt.bsky.social et al shows that higher plant diversity boosts microbial drought resistance and promotes soil carbon storage 🌱🦠 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @rousklab.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social

Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation

We investigated how plant diversity influenced soil microbial processes during moist conditions and an experimental drought. Higher plant diversity increased below-ground plant input. This increased ...

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New nutrients&roots paper out! 🌳🌲🧪 Douglas fir and beech saplings partition ammonium vs. nitrate under competition, enabling complementary N use and their coexistence in mixed stands. @mrakklara.bsky.social @bmwildermuth.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #forestecol

Mineral nitrogen form preference, partitioning and root morphological traits of Douglas fir and European beech under intra—and interspecific competition in-situ - European Journal of Forest Research

Climate change challenges forestry in temperate regions, with drought and insect infestations affecting major tree species. Introducing drought-tolerant non-native species into managed forests is a wi...

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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

The highlights of our new study summarized as a press release! ⚠️ This is what can happen if two PhD students decide they have not yet had enough and want to do collaborative research. Worth it! @mrakklara.bsky.social @sharathpaligi.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

Uni Göttingen@uni-goettingen.de · 7mo ago

Wie nutzen Bäume Wasser und Stickstoff aus dem tieferen Boden? Forschende haben verfolgt, wie sie beides aufnehmen und von der Wurzel zur Krone leiten. Ergebnis: Stickstoff kommt verzögert oben an. Und Douglasien sind im #Klimawandel im Vorteil. Details lesen: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

Very pretty ectomycorrhiza on a beech root! During these winter months, I longingly gaze at photos of tree roots 🎶 Shot by miki @michela-audisio.bsky.social #mycorrhiza #forestecol

Christoph Leuschner, who knows a bit about trees, is giving a talk in Göttingen today: "Wie kommen unsere Bäume mit dem Klimawandel zurecht?"🌳 Should be good! #forestecol @Aula am Wilhelmsplatz, Gö, at 18:15, free

The project ResEtFi is looking for a project coordinator, 100% 🍉 Topic: developing multifunctional forests on disturbed spruce stands. Find ThüringenForst - AöR on Interamt.de

New!🌲💧 Water moves faster than nitrate from soil to canopy in mature trees, highlighting root, soil, and species traits. More on subsoil uptake by Douglas fir and beech here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @mrakklara.bsky.social @christina-hn.bsky.social @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social

landscape architecture for life!

EnriCo - Uni Goettingen@enricounigoe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Today (10th) at 16am CEST, Živa Pečenko will talk about how landscape architecture promotes landscape resilience🌳🏡🚵‍♂️ Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Seminar series Forest Ecology: Science&Practice www.uni-goettingen.de/de/701005.html #landscapearchitecture

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell@kurzgesagt.org · 10mo ago

Trees are amazing! They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses. Watch our video to find out how they work, and why they might even be immortal: https://kgs.link/TreesAreDead

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Hi, for international researchers (broad topic of landscape resilience), you can get funded for organising a workshop at Uni Göttingen. Here is the link (see categroy C): #forestecol www.uni-goettingen.de/de/innovatio...