Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Bittersweet morning - said bye to my son after 10 wonderful months of parental leave but said hello to a new role as an Associate Lecturer at Macquarie University, School of Natural Sciences. Might take a few days for my brain to defrost but I'm looking forward to the next few years at MQ 🎉

Sydney friends - this looks amazing, I’ve just booked tickets! Two incredible artistic companies together for a piece about First Nations knowledge and connection to the evolution of Australian plants 🌿 australianballet.com.au/performances...

The Australian Ballet | Flora

The Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre present Flora by Frances Rings, an exciting and bold new dance collaboration.

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A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏 It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there! @sortee.bsky.social #rstats events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science

For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

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📢 New publication 'Exposure and sensitivity of threatened #plant species to changing #drought regimes: A global analysis' by Susan Everingham, Ian Wright, Lina Teckentrup, Stuart Allen and Rachael Gallagher in Biological Conservation 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #IUCN

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

PhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric Drought

We invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil...

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Drought is often omitted from IUCN Red Listing assessments as it is difficult to quantify. But our study has found that >95% of threatened species will be exposed to longer and more frequent droughts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exposure and sensitivity of threatened plant species to changing drought regimes: A global analysis

Climate change is driving substantial impacts on plants, including widespread increases in drought frequency, duration, and intensity. Changes to thes…

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✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥 Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me! Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

Final PhD paper published! Using resurrection ecology and a glasshouse experiment, we found limited responses of defence traits to climate change across Aus plants. Brilliant coauthors inc. @angelamoles.bsky.social Eve Slavich, Cathy Offord and Juha-Pekka Salminen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Limited responses of plant defence traits to recent climate change - Evolutionary Ecology

Direct and indirect effects of climate change may have substantial impacts on plant defences against herbivory. However, there are limited long-term historical data on plant morphological and chemical...

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Of the 8000 plant species introduced to cities around the world, about 300 are in cities on every continent and about 90 are basically in every city. Urbanization has selected for a common set of species that are the fingerprint of our activity: The urban florome. onlinelibrary.wiley....

#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿

Spring is really springing here in Sydney and we managed to get out on a bush walk in Ku-Ring-Gai NP to see some beautiful wild flowers with a toddler and newborn in tow 🌸🌿

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Important reading as you prepare for your semester

Our #OpenAccess paper showing no trends in photoperiod sensitivity in germination 🌱 & flowering time 🌸 across a range of predictors out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social Led by brilliant Honours student Ashika and my first 'senior author' paper 😀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shining a Light on Patterns of Photoperiod Sensitivity in Germination and Flowering Across Latitudes, Ecosystems and Functional Traits

Our study investigated the role of photoperiod sensitivity in plant phenology, focusing on germination and flowering patterns across species in Australia and globally. We found that most species show...

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PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Exciting new paper from @innaosmol.bsky.social and a great team - why are some climate change range shifts counterintuitive to predictions? Changes in biotic interactions!

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🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology

📢 New publication ' #Adaptation in Wood Anatomical Traits to Temperature and Precipitation—A Common Garden Study' by Tiantian Pan, Travis Britton, Julian Schrader, Emma Sumner, Dean Nicolle, Brendan Choat and @ianjwright.bsky.social in Plant, Cell and Environment 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Adaptation in Wood Anatomical Traits to Temperature and Precipitation—A Common Garden Study

Wood anatomy underpins plant function. Across 58 evergreen species thicker vessel walls increased hydraulic safety in cold and dry sites. Smaller vessels increased safety at warm sites yet hydraulic ....

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The registration for the 5th @sortee.bsky.social annual virtual conference is now open! We have two fantastic plenary speakers this year @simine.com and Israel Borokini (not on BSky?).

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🎉Registration for the SORTEE Conference 2025 (15-16 Oct) is now open!🎉 Register here: www.sortee.org/upcoming The conference is FREE for members, so consider joining us! www.sortee.org/join/ Let’s recognize great open science work - nominate a project for a SORTEE Award! www.sortee.org/awards/

Despite transport NSW cancelling pretty much all of their Sydney trains we had a great turn out @pintsworld.bsky.social in Parramatta, Aus 🍻 a crew of an astronomist @astrolaura.com an ecologist (me! 👋🏻) and a nuclear chemist (Anton Peristyy) chatting about our big and small research

🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍 🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV 🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB

Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland shrubs?

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Content submissions for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025) are now OPEN. Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via sortee.org/upcoming The conference will be FREE for members, so consider joining us (sortee.org/join/).

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

📢 New publication 'Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland #shrubs?' by Lily Dun, Elizabeth Wenk, Daniel Falster, Mark Westoby and Ian Wright in Journal of Ecology 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire‐prone heathland shrubs?

We demonstrate that key functional traits undergo shifts in their relationship with growth as plants mature. Therefore, it will be valuable to shift our understanding of plant strategies away from th...

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Build a Ballot - Get election ready

Everything you need to do your research before voting at the 2025 Federal Election. Discover your local candidates & see how they're approaching key issues.

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Online now: Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity–consumer relationships

Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity–consumer relationships

Terrestrial plant diversity plays a pivotal role in influencing the abundance, diversity, and impacts of herbivores and pathogens (collectively, plant consumers). However, it is unclear whether the relationships between biodiversity and herbivory reflect the same underlying ecological mechanisms as the relationships between biodiversity and disease. This uncertainty results in part from decades of independent, siloed research on each consumer group. We propose that, across herbivores and pathogens, plant diversity–consumer relationships arise from five fundamental factors: (1) density of a focal plant, (2) total plant biomass, (3) plant neighborhood quality, (4) resource diversity, and (5) structural complexity. By matching established hypotheses to these five fundamental factors, we highlight opportunities for growth in the rapidly developing field of plant–consumer interactions.

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Our paper on the integration of biodiversity-disease and biodiversity-herbivore relationships is out now! Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting us through #sDiv working group funding to bring together two typically disparate fields in ecology! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada "Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology" www.i-deel.org/opportunitie... co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) Please repost!

A great week with the best collaborators! Especially Sid the sloth

Zoe Xirocostas@zoexiro.bsky.social · last yr.

Just wrapped up our second (very productive!) meeting for the sConsume working group at iDiv in Leipzig 🇩🇪 So glad to have such fantastic group members as collaborators and friends 💚🌿🐛🦠 @fletcher-h.bsky.social @suzeveringham.bsky.social @ebelingae.bsky.social @annekempel.bsky.social