Available in UK on 12 December and in the US on 16 January, the new BIRDS OF CHINA by Princeton University Press This is an English translation of the excellent China National Geographic field guide, updated and revised. See: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

In 1960, David Latimer planted a spiderwort sprout inside of a large glass jar, added a quarter pint of water, and then sealed it shut. He opened the bottle for the first time only 12 years later, in 1972, to add some water and then sealed it for good. The self-contained

Please Repost! Special Issue: ''Soil biodiversity at the European scale'' open for submissions: sciencedirect.com/journal/applie… Deadline: June 30, 2024 Journal of Applied Ecology, #Soilbiodiversity, EUdaphobase, Soil Biodiversity, FAO Land, Soil and Water

A global synthesis on drivers of the spatial distribution of woody plants: Xi et al. #mycorrhiza #forests onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This new study published in Ecology Letters uncovers a rare occurrence of character displacement & identifies a common mechanism employed by plants to alleviate competition Don't miss it! Stavros Veresoglou, J Xi Josep Penuelas CSIC CREAF IEC onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Mechanisms of coexistence: Exploring species sorting and character displacement in woody plants to alleviate belowground competition #mycorrhiza Ecology Letters with Josep Penuelas dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

A brief press release on Stavros Veresoglou 's paper exploring two common ecological strategies that promote coexistence by reducing competition 𝑺𝑷𝑶𝑰𝑳𝑬𝑹 𝑨𝑳𝑬𝑹𝑻: mutualism is the key 🌿 Josep Penuelas CSIC CREAF IEC globalecology.creaf.cat/?p=9555

This article opens a new era of AI-based supervised classification of vegetation and habitat types based on species composition. César Leblanc from the University of Montpellier, with the support of colleagues from Pl@ntNet and EVA (European Vegetation Archive), has developed a

Delighted from the opportunity to catch up with Hans Lambers and plan some new projects together! And this was a really great seminar!

The microbiome orchestrates contaminant low-dose phytostimulation. Agathokleous et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Does the mycorrhizal mediation hypothesis capture biogeographical patterns in plant-soil feedback? the case of conspecific negative density dependencies. With Hans Lambers link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New Research: Breeding in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) can be further progressed by targeting previously neglected competitive traits frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #PlantScience

Απώλεια βιοποικιλότητας και κλιματική αλλαγή: δύο κρίσεις, μία σύνδεση | BLOG των Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κρήτης cup.gr/blog/apoleia-v…

Mycorrhiza at the Cutting Edge: Trees at the Edges of Their Distribution Host Diverse and Distinct AMF Communities. Addressing the scale dependence in mutualisms hypothesis, with Guolin Li #mycorrhiza onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

We often assume dose-response curves to stay invariable in time but this is not the case - with Costas Saitanis & Evganios Agathokleous: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lbkU8nIePm0…

"In the land of the blind, mycorrhiza was the one-eyed king!" - distinguishing between holobiont-and individual-symbionts-types of hypotheses could foster progress! Happy to see this out at JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social! A huge thanks to two exceptional anonymous reviewers ! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

The dead giveaway: Seedling mortality in arbuscular mycorrhizal systems. With Hans Lambers and John Halley track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=e8…