"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability

Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...

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Just published this new paper, with a bunch of fantastic colleagues, with many suggestions for "Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models." Access is free online. We have some great figures, thanks to Victor Leshyk. 🧪🌐🌳🌎

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models Dukes et al. @dukesjeff.bsky.social @changliao.bsky.social @richphillipslab.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

📢Just out! A new paper by the team in @pnas.org : Observed declines in leaf nitrogen explained by photosynthetic acclimation to CO2! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Maoya Bassiouni, @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social et al.

Observed declines in leaf nitrogen explained by photosynthetic acclimation to CO2 | PNAS

Widespread evidence of decreasing leaf nutrients has raised concerns about ecosystem productivity under global change. Interpreting trends in leaf ...

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What a wonderful surprise to see our work reflected in a commentary that so clearly "gets it". Thank you so much @juergenknauer.bsky.social !

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · last yr.

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Jürgen Knauer 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A machine learning approach using long-term observations of eddy covariance finds that the increase in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency under higher CO2 is driven primarily by reduction in canopy conductance, rather than stimulation of gross primary productivity www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO2-enhanced water-use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A machine learning approach using long-term observations of eddy covariance finds that the increase in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency under higher CO2 levels, across diverse ecosystems, is drive...

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What a pleasure to write a News & Views piece on this intriguing article that found surprising insights into WUE trends --> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Water-use efficiency driven by water savings - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of land–atmosphere water and CO2 fluxes suggests that reduced water use by vegetation, rather than increased carbon uptake, is the driving factor behind the well-documented increase in vegeta...

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Weiwei Zhan@weiweizhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in how plant intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) responds to rising CO2? Our new paper shows that CO2-enhanced iWUE is mainly driven by reduced canopy conductance, while stimulation of ecosystem photosynthesis is less detectable given current data length. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For a recent review see www.nature.com/articles/s43... "Both short-duration and long-duration (>1 day) rainfall extremes are intensifying with warming at a rate consistent with the increase in atmospheric moisture" (~7% per degree C), but some local convective rainfall events increase even more. 5/5

Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Short-duration rainfall extremes are determined by complex processes that are affected by the warming climate. This Review assesses the evidence for the intensification of short-duration rainfall extr...

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New Article: "When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evfGV A causality-guided explainable AI framework shows soil moisture dominates vapour pressure deficit in shaping global photosynthesis during water-limited conditions.

Delighted to share our new paper "Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO2-enhanced water-use efficiency: www.nature.com/articles/s41... , which demonstrates the strongly detectable impact of CO2 fertilization on canopy and stomata conductance,

Interested in how plant intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) responds to rising CO2? Our new paper shows that CO2-enhanced iWUE is mainly driven by reduced canopy conductance, while stimulation of ecosystem photosynthesis is less detectable given current data length. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO2-enhanced water-use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A machine learning approach using long-term observations of eddy covariance finds that the increase in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency under higher CO2 levels, across diverse ecosystems, is drive...

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This species-specific study and another latest out global analyses www.nature.com/articles/s41... converge to the same conclusion: enhanced tree/forest growth by the global warming cannot offset the negative impacts causes by disturbances, such as droughts.

Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades - Nature Communications

Rising CO₂ and warming enhance vegetation greening, but drought, heat stress, and resource limits constrain this trend. Here, the authors show that within a year, increased early- and peak- season gre...

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Arthur Gessler@arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was the first chapter of my PhD but we spent a long long time on reviewing and revising (which indeed greatly improved the quality). This is where we need nice supervisors and coauthors who keep encouraging me regardless of peer criticism and rejection! Also C.Bio. has very good author service!

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · last yr.

Testing ecophysiological theory using tree traits along a vapour pressure deficit (VPD) gradient shows, as predicted, that photosynthetic capacity is higher at higher VPD sites. Contrary to the predictions, potential water conductivity tends to increase with higher VPD. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our new paper is out on Nature Plants! We found that soil moisture contributes more to ecosystem photosynthesis than VPD for the water-limited periods and water-limited locations, using causality-guided explainable AI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis - Nature Plants

Using a causality-guided explainable AI framework, Liu et al. show soil moisture dominates vapour pressure deficit in shaping global photosynthesis during water-limited conditions.

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Excited to share our new paper "When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis" www.nature.com/articles/s41..., which resolves a long-standing debate as to whether soil moisture or atmospheric dryness dominates water stress response.

When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis - Nature Plants

Using a causality-guided explainable AI framework, Liu et al. show soil moisture dominates vapour pressure deficit in shaping global photosynthesis during water-limited conditions.

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Traditionally ESMs didn't actively model human decision-making, but just published today: "E3SM-GCAM: A Synchronously Coupled Human Component in the E3SM Earth System Model Enables Novel Human-Earth Feedback Research" by Alan Di Vittorio et al.! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

E3SM‐GCAM: A Synchronously Coupled Human Component in the E3SM Earth System Model Enables Novel Human‐Earth Feedback Research

We have incorporated a novel, advanceable human component in an Earth system model to simulate human-Earth feedbacks Including terrestrial productivity feedbacks from the Earth to the human syste...

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🌍New paper out today!!! Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations @xiangzluo.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com 🔗👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The efficiency with which plants use carbon assimilated through photosynthesis has a key role in determining natureʼs capacity to offset carbon dioxide emissions. This study leverages global eddy cova...

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Excited to share our new Nature Geoscience paper on how persistent Rossby waves patterns are triggering simultaneous hot-dry extremes across western Europe, Asia, and the U.S., severely reducing vegetation productivity and carbon uptake. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Northern ecosystem productivity reduced by Rossby-wave-driven hot–dry conditions - Nature Geoscience

Satellite observations suggest that prolonged hot–dry conditions induced by Rossby waves in the jet stream reduce ecosystem productivity, providing insights into the potential impacts of a future warm...

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How do dominant plants' functional traits affect biomass responses to global change? New paper by Mingyan Hu et al uses the large Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative (MESI) database to find out. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Plant functional traits affect biomass responses to global change: A meta‐analysis

The positive effects of elevated nutrient on belowground biomass were more pronounced for communities dominated by “fast” species. In communities dominated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-associated ...

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Now online: "Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates" by Kelsey Foster et al., including @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social w/ Stanford, PNNL, NAU, and NRC colleagues agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates

Additional sink inferred by inversions in just 16% of North America accounts for the discrepancy between top-down and bottom-up estimates Statistically significant differences between top-down an...

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Wanna learn how to partition CO2 fluxes using ML and SIF? 🌱🤖 Come join me on April 8 - it's a talk ➕ a hands-on coding session!

FLUXNET Early Career Network@fluxnetecn.bsky.social · last yr.

Don't miss this exciting Workshop to learn on Partitioning CO2 Fluxes Our invited speaker is Weiwei Zhan from Columbia University. The workshop focuses on sciencedirect.com/science/arti...? Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 Time: 1 PM EST Register for this webinar: lbnl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New pub out in @annbot.bsky.social led by Astrid Ode titled "Temporal constraints on leaf-level trait plasticity for next-generation land surface models" We critically examine timescales of trait-environment responses Have a look! @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Temporal constraints on leaf-level trait plasticity for next-generation land surface models

AbstractBackground and aims. Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) are essential for quantifying the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the Earth’s clima

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The FLUXNET Early Career Network (FLUXNET-ECN) is excited to announce “Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”, a three-day in-person workshop August 6-8th, 2025 focused on integrating flux data for validating and parameterizing land surface models.

eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Can we develop a global #deeplearning #model for daily Soil CO2 efflux? Results show - #LSTM models can use existing data to generate synthetic data for temperate mesic regions - challenges of transferring relationships learned from data-rich to data-poor sites

🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year. 👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪

A global meta-analysis of soil respiration in response to elevated CO2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A global meta-analysis of soil respiration in response to elevated CO2

Soil respiration (Rs) is a crucial component of the terrestrial ecosystem carbon (C) cycle, which significantly regulates atmospheric CO2 concentratio…

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Did the winter 2024-25 La Niña precipitation pattern perform as predicted? To find out, we compared observed conditions to two ENSO-monitoring indices. See how we did in our newest ENSO blog post! www.climate.gov/news-feature...

📣📖New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social🌿 "Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social 🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE

Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics

Natural selection favors growth by selecting a combination of plant traits that maximize photosynthetic CO2 assimilation at the lowest combined carbon costs of resource acquisition and use. We quant...

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Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools

Terrestrial sequestration of carbon has mitigated ≈30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions. However, its distribution across different pools, live or dead biomass and soil and sedimentary organic carbon...

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Our perspective paper on resilience and tipping points is now out! We outline key principles to guide future research on these critical topics, from dynamical systems to real-world applications. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #Resilience #TippingPoints #Ecology