Research published in Nature Communications presents global maps of local species richness for vascular plants in order to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. go.nature.com/3ARGWeG

A new study incl. authors from Botanický ústav AV ČR/Institute of Botany CAS shows that the Eastern European forest-steppe region is home to a similar number of plant species as the Amazon rainforest, which only becomes apparent when species are counted in smaller sampling areas. nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

Here is a comment about our sPlot - iDiv paper with Francesco Sabatini: Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer? ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/species-… #behindthepaper

On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar [full speech: buff.ly/3RZhLOY]

👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬CALL FOR COLLABORATION👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬 We are looking for Global South researchers who have vegetation (plot level) data! 🌍 Join sPlot and become part of a global network of scientists unraveling patterns in plant biodiversity! 🌼🌴🌿☀️🌦️🌱☘️🌾 Contribution deadline: end of October

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Research Officer (m/f/d) for the project "MultiTroph Data management" (Z2), Geobotany at MLU Halle, Universität Halle | Halle (Saale), Germany | Closing date: 15 October 2022 verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Aussch…

Happy to have the opportunity to present my results on the distribution patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity in vascular plant communities as a talk at #BES2022. sPlot - iDiv #Ecology #Diversity #PD #FD

There is a #paradox in #biodiversity conservation: species disappear regionally, but local species richness is stable Helge Bruelheide iDiv Biodiversity Research Universität Halle and colleagues tackle this problem for Germany. Hot of the press: nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am excited to share our new NatureEcoEvo paper that uses iNaturalist citizen science observations to map plant functional traits on a global scale! 🔗nature.com/articles/s4155… #iNatTraitMaps #CitizenScience #firstpaper Remote Sensing Centre for Earth System Research UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG NFDI4Biodiversity iDiv Biodiversity Research 🧵1/8

I am very happy for Sophie Wolf! Her first PhD paper was just published NatureEcoEvo where she combined iNaturalist #CitizenScience data and try-db.org to generate global maps of #planttraits and compared them to sPlot - iDiv nature.com/articles/s4155… 🧵1/7

Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale. Stephan Kambach shows why: The relationship is habitat specific 🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s4146… sPlot - iDiv

Nice to see Thore Engel’s paper published! It used the sPlot - iDiv global vegetation plot data base and started during⁦⁩ Thore’s MSc at the Graduate Program in Ecology, UFRGS, Porto Alegre. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

📢📢 New sPlot paper published! ⭐️⭐️ @ThoreEngel led this great study in which the prevalence of traits from dominant species drives ecosystem function in grasslands worldwide. Check it at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Do you already know the open version of sPlot, sPlotOpen? If not, this is a good opportunity to check it out! We have released an updated version correcting some mismatches in species occurrences. You can access the version 2.0 of this open dataset at doi.org/10.25829/idiv.…

Beautiful use of the sPlot - iDiv vegetation database ⬇️ Vulnerability to embolism #P50 & root length in woody plants are independent or othogonal traits selected by aridity, seasonality & water table depth 🚨 Just published New Phytologist 🤩 📖 ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t

In the 1970s, a pioneer team of Argentinian, Chilean and UK biogeographers studied the vegetation of Patagonia along a 450 km transect. Now the data are available #OA and published in @JVSAVS, thanks to a collaboration with sPlot - iDiv CONICET Dialoga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jv…

Double great news: We had two papers published in the last month! One is the relationship between traits and drought resistance (ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t) and the other on the digitization a vegetation dataset from Patagonia (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…).

Call for a 2-year research position in Bologna! Deadline: Jan 8th 2024