🗞️New paper out in Science Advances 🗞️ Tree diversity increases #forest stability We unravel key mechanisms driving diversity-stability relationships in forests.👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… w/ TreeDì, iDiv Biodiversity Research, IBCAS, #TreeDivNet

Join us! The Gonzalez Lab is hiring a postdoc to assess how #biodiversity is changing in space and time across 🌏 2000 sites of the #BIOSCAN project See details ⬇️ Please RT mcgill.ca/biology/employ… bioscan.life

Maintaining strong stoichiometric homeostasis of leaf P, while maintaining conservative economy of N, is a key physiochemical mechanism for shaping species abundance distribution in P-limited forests Liting besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Why is there such diversity of trait & life history variation? Hypothesis... there is actually a deep unity to the diversity of life Our latest paper 'Toward a general theory of plant carbon economics' Led by @matisscastorena proposes a novel predictive theory to explain why 🧵

Looking for tree traits? Together with our new paper in Ecology Letters we also published a comprehensive set of 36 physicochemical traits of 75 European woody plants. Data is publicly available online at: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/…

Wonderful synthesis and collaboration with Clara Zemp,j Nathaly Guerrero Ramírez and Holger Kreft in which we show how restoration with tree islands improves diversity of multiple taxonomic groups Vicerrectoría de Investigación U. Mayor @CEM_UMayor

Shifting microbial communities can enhance tree tolerance to changing climates | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Thrilled to share Rasgos-CL, an open trait database with data for 662 woody species in Chile: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… @AnidInforma Data Observatory GEB Journal OpenTraits OpenTraitsLatino BES Macroecology GfÖ AK Macroecology Club Eco-Evo Latinoamérica 1/n

🗞️New Paper in Plant Biology🗞️(1/5) Interested in #forests, #drought, #biodiversity? We show that the traits of trees 🌳and their neighbours determine biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in forests. TreeDì iDiv Biodiversity Research Universität Freiburg #TreeDivNet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Online now: Why incorporate plant architecture into trait-based ecology? dlvr.it/T1FSNw

Happy to share our first global effort to quantify the impact of extreme drought on biomass production, #DroughtNet led by Melinda Smith at CSU. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our new review led by Forest & Nature Lab and summarizing results from #TreeDivNet forest diversity experiments on effects of species mixing on tree performance is out now in Current Forestry Reports Link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Read only: rdcu.be/dw2nh

'How to give an academic job talk' has now been viewed over 30 thousand times! #AcademicChatter #interview youtu.be/jkKFEYp0yvo

Possibly the most important ecology paper published in Science this century?...science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🌟After a long study, we found that competition induced higher intraspecific trait variability in inferior species than superior species. Big thanks to my collaborative mentors, Prof. Guochun Shen and Carlos P. Carmona, for their guidance and partnership.

We found that the lower ratio of proportional changes in P vs. N for females likely reflects stronger P limitation for their vegetative growth as they require greater P investments in fruiting, indicating a sex-specific optimization under unequal reproductive requirements.