PhD position available in my team: Bioinformatics analysis of long DNA marker sequences (supervisors Sten Anslan, Leho Tedersoo). Deadline on 1st June. ut.ee/en/phd-botany-…

Read this nice commentary on our recent paper on root evolution and ecology. Thanks Dr. Liam Elliot form the University of Oxford. botany.one/2020/06/going-…

Palms rule! ForestPlots.net, RAINFOR, AfriTRON, PPBio network analysis finds that in the Amazon palms are more than five times more abundant than in comparable Asian and African forests. leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4…

The edaphic control of plant diversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

We know well how carbon is fixed in leaves, but we understand very little about C consumption in roots. In this new publication, Dr Kong discusses a new framework to understand root anatomy and how it relates to C use in roots. #plantroot nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

Out online now - @Laughlin_DC & coauthors discuss how we can link plant traits to intrinsic population growth rates cell.com/trends/ecology…

Check out this open 2-year postdoc in my team on Macroecology for the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration BIOCHANGE Aarhus Universitet bit.ly/macrodecres - application deadline Oct 1 #ecology #restoration #macroecology #bendingthecurve #biogeography

We are searching for a highly motivated candidate interested in conducting a PhD project focused on the exploration of root traits in iconic tropical families, using amazing botanical collections in South Florida. Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes #plantroots

#rFIA v0.2.4 just released on CRAN! What's new? Larger-than-RAM options in nearly all functions - just processed 50GB of FIA data on my laptop (16GB RAM). Check out our website to get started: rfia.netlify.app Small area and model-assisted estimators up next! #Rstats

Joseph H. Connell (1923–2020) nature.com/articles/d4158…

Graduated recently or finishing up your PhD soon & interested in #biodiversity, #phenology, and/or community ecology? Check out this new #postdoc position in my team LSU Department of Biological Sciences and LSU CCT. Inquiries welcome. Please RT and share with others. Thanks! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0125-L…

So excited to have our paper published in Ecology. We found that mycorrhizal type was an important functional trait linking local biotic interaction to plant diversity across broad scales. Thanks to all my co-authors! #treediversity

Looking for PhD students! Are you interested in #roots, #mycorrhiza, #plantevolution, #tropicalforests? The TREE Lab @ FIU is looking for new members myweb.fiu.edu/ovalverd/join-…

What a great way to end this year ! Our paper on #herbivory in #oak along latitudinal and climatic gradient is out ! Thanks to Elena Valdés Xoaquín Moreira Julia Koricheva @MariaFaticov Katerina Sam Aurélien Sallé and many others for this great collaboration ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #ENM #SDM #MaxEnt #Rstats #biogeography

We are reopening a search for a postdoc in my group. I am looking for a curious person with an interest in plant-soil / plant-insect interactions to join our large and diverse team (research-groups.usask.ca/bennett-lab). 1/4