🌳Interested in using genomics, metabolomics and/or remote sensing to study the drought tolerance of a majestic tree species? Apply for the PhD position in my group! Deadline: 8 December 2025. 🌳 @spatialgenetics.bsky.social jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: PhD position – Drought Tolerance of European beech

We invite applications for a 4-year PhD position working on drought tolerance of European beech using a variety of methodological approaches from remote sensing to genomics and metabolomics.

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A new small beech biodiversity experiment is starting today @Irchel :-) 190 4-year old beech saplings growing in two contrasting genetic diversity levels. Although it was very muddy and snowy at times, we are happy to finally have the little trees in the ground. @sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social

@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social at the Basque Center of Climate Change (BC3) in Bilbao (ES) presenting our research on Intraspecific Variation in Drought Responses in European Beech 🌍🌳

Netanyahu announced full occupation of Gaza — while people starve, are displaced and killed. This is genocide. EU must act now: - Impose a full arms embargo - Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement - Move to recognise Palestine Stop the war. Ceasefire and humanitarian aid — now!

This is a really unique and exciting opportunity for a full professorship in Vienna. Come be my colleague @ter-cemess.bsky.social and join a fantastic group of scientists!

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-...

🚨We are hiring🚨ECR with a PhD within 7 years? Tenure track position (akin to Assistant Prof) in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Expertise in remote sensing and machine learning. Work on climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV Deadline May 10 tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Abstract submission has been extended to 5 May 2025!

Sofia van Moorsel@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social! We aim to unite researchers working on tree genomics in natural and experimental populations and on strategies for monitoring forest genetic diversity! @spatialgenetics.bsky.social @domcoqetc.bsky.social Submit your abstract here: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission! Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!  📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

After a successful workshop in Zurich! I am pleased to co-organize a symposium during the ESEB Barcelona on 17-22 August 2025. If you are interested in discussing your research about adaptation and tree genomics you can submit your abstract before the 25th of April to eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social! We aim to unite researchers working on tree genomics in natural and experimental populations and on strategies for monitoring forest genetic diversity! @spatialgenetics.bsky.social @domcoqetc.bsky.social Submit your abstract here: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

New paper from our group! We used remote sensing to identify subtle seasonal differences between closely related beech species and developed models that accurately distinguish them at assisted gene flow sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Leveraging remote sensing to distinguish closely related beech species in assisted gene flow scenarios

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests are suffering under increasingly severe and frequent drought. Closely related beech species from Bulgaria,…

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Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

Afforestation projects using species mixtures are expected to better support ecosystem services than monoculture plantations. While grassland studies have shown natural selection favoring high-perfo...

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🌳 Join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona in August! The abstract submission deadline is 25 April 2025. 🌳https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

Sofia van Moorsel@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am excited that our symposium "Adaptation to environmental changes in trees through the lens of common gardens and genomics" has been accepted to be included at the @eseb.bsky.social conference in August in Barcelona. Be ready to submit your abstracts!

Abstract and registration deadline is tomorrow 23 March!

Sofia van Moorsel@sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social · last yr.

We're organizing a thematic workshop on "Beech genomes for the future". Registration and abstract submission can be done via this link swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an.... We hope to interact with many people interested in finding a way to keep this forest species around!

📢 Join the OptFORESTS & @euforgen.bsky.social webinar! 🌳 "Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest" 🗓️ 11 April | 🕚 11:00–12:00 CEST How does #silviculture affect #genetic diversity?👉 Register now! www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...

Joint EUFORGEN-OptFORESTS webinar: Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest

EUFORGEN & OptFORESTS webinar – Mechanisms of natural and anthropogenic selection on trees in the forest: consequences for climate change adaptation strategies 11 April 2025. 11:00 - 12:00 CET. ...

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Join us for this! We would like to bring together as many people as possible who work on beech genomics. You can submit abstracts to present your work either as a talk or a poster, or just join for discussions and exchange. 🌳

Domitille Coq--Etchegaray@domcoqetc.bsky.social · last yr.

I am pleased to co-organize the "Beech Genomes for the Future" workshop on April 4th at the University of Zürich! 🌳 Are you working on or interested in beech genomics? Take a look and join us for this one-day workshop! swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an...

I am pleased to co-organize the "Beech Genomes for the Future" workshop on April 4th at the University of Zürich! 🌳 Are you working on or interested in beech genomics? Take a look and join us for this one-day workshop! swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an...

We're organizing a thematic workshop on "Beech genomes for the future". Registration and abstract submission can be done via this link swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/events-an.... We hope to interact with many people interested in finding a way to keep this forest species around!

Thematic workshop 2025

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Structural diversity is an important predictor of forest productivity responses to drought 🌲🧪 Productivity losses related to drought increased with greater structural diversity & decreased with functional identities characterized by conservative resource strategies 📊 🌏 🔗 https://buff.ly/40JUKEY

✒️ New Paper Alert! #Sustainability #ImpactAssessments of #trade agreements tend to mute or belittle impacts on #biodiversity. Check out our suggestions for more inclusive, inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability impact assessments of trade agreements: rdcu.be/d9oHk

Happy to share our latest work towards monitoring functional diversity using #Sentinel-2 time series at @esa.int's #BIOSPACE25 conference in Frascati, Italy. Visit our poster and talk to our team from @spatialgenetics.bsky.social and @wslresearch.bsky.social! 😊

via @twisteddoodles.bsky.social in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science -

Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively! enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Unmute biodiversity risks of free trade? The EFTA–Mercosur Agreement (Swiss) case study - Environmental Sciences Europe

Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively. To showcase this, we examined a report, commissioned by Switzerlan...

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🚀 The Genes from Space team recently hosted a workshop in Bern with over 100 participants (!!) joining to learn about our new monitoring tool. It enables users to use space-based Earth observation data to assess habitat suitability and estimate key genetic diversity metrics worldwide🌍

🌍🌳 Using Sentinel 2- data, we showed that Swiss forests with higher functional diversity resist & recover better from drought! A step toward scaling BEF insights to real-world forests! Check out our new publication in GCB by @helfenstein.earth et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Satellite Observations Reveal a Positive Relationship Between Trait‐Based Diversity and Drought Response in Temperate Forests

The relationship between functional diversity (richness, evenness) and drought response (resistance, recovery, resilience) during the severe 2018 drought in Switzerland was analyzed using satellite-d...

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A couple of years ago, I switched fields a bit by starting to work with European beech. The more I get to know this tree species, the more I appreciate and love it. Now, the first paper – written together with MSc student Dave Kurath – is out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Leaf Spectroscopy Reveals Drought Response Variation in Fagus sylvatica Saplings From Across the Species' Range

Leaf reflectance measurements effectively track drought-induced trait changes in beech saplings in a non-destructive way Beech saplings from the Iberian Peninsula show greater drought resistance ...

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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Our research is finally out 📜 @natureportfolio.bsky.social in our publication we show that #landscape_diversity 🏞️promotes #productivity using #remote_sensing on a continental scale 🌎 across 20 years Thanks to everyone who contributed✨ #University_of_Zurich #URPP_GCB www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Landscape diversity promotes landscape functioning in North America - Communications Earth & Environment

Landscape-level diversity – the number of different ecosystems in a 250 m by 250 m area – is positively related to landscape-wide primary production across North America, according to remote sensing o...

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Bad. But how bad? I once asked myself, while finding fakes in the Scientific Report @natureportfolio.bsky.social. So I decide to "do my our research" - I took 100 articles in a row from Physical sciences that contains diffraction. Result - 15 fakes out 100. Details in the 🧵 #ResearchIntegrity 1/x