Ecological drivers and phylogenetic patterns of leaf minimum conductance variability in vascular plants Stomatal closure prevents significant water losses during drought events. Yet, leaves are not perfectly hermetic and dehydration ensues through residual water losses, known as minimum conductance (g...

Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪

The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦

@newphyt.bsky.social

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts

Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience?

🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺)
🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪
🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺

👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

Great opportunity and team if you are interested in ecophysiology.

Awesome! I am looking forward watching the full video but already now I would claim it depends on the size of samples needed. Tree climbing for long branches, e.g. for hydraulic measurements, and drone for leaves or twiglets, for e.g. nutrient analyses or water potential measurements. Let's see.

Exciting research environment in a great team and a lovely working space

We are looking forward to ITMN seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu to learn about tree mortality in Australian forests 🌳 🌲 🌏

Come and join us!
👇🏽

Summer School - Forests for the Future

Summer School "Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration"
16–21 August 2026; Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland
Deadline: 30 April 2026
Applications can be submitted to: swissforestlab_summerschool@wsl.ch
swissforestlab.wsl.ch/en/veranstal...

Another PhD opportunity, joint project with colleagues from Prague on the future of beech in the Ore Mountains funded by the EU Interreg program. If you are interested in the effect of thinning and forest structure on high-resolution tree growth responses, see here: tu-dresden.de/stellenaussc....

PhD opportunity: If you are interested in ecophysiology and tree water relations (subproject 2), less than a week left to apply.

Great guy, important topic ... Lars Vesterdal, University of Copenhagen - 🧪🍁 Soil and ecosystem carbon sequestration over 50 years in resampled oak and Norway spruce afforestation chronosequences on former cropland. -When: Wednesday 11 February 16.00 CET. ZOOM:
cesnet.zoom.us/j/9212345086...

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴
Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team.
Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

Tree species coverage in the Global Wood Density Database v.2.

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

Fischer et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....

Worldwide, larger trees suffer most following extreme drought, which likewise seems to apply to European beech in response to the exceptional 2018/19 drought, see here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo.... Great work by @jsrieder.bsky.social as part of her DFG-funded PhD project BEECHDECLINE.

If you are interested in ecohydrology and soil-plant-water relationships under drought, here's the chance to join a great team.

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC
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🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC
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🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC
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Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀

Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....

Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought In vascular plants, the long-distance water transport between organs occurs under tension. Because it is difficult to study a system under negative pressure without measurement artefacts, the field of...

We re-evaluate several root hydraulic paradigms and show that they are outdated (doi.org/10.1007/124_...). Thanks to ‪@mutezahmed.bsky.social‬‬, @profchoat.bsky.social, @sdelzon.bsky.social, @peterpetrik94.bsky.social, @torresruizjm.bsky.social, @scottmcadam.bsky.social‬ and others.‬

Universität Basel: PhD position in alpine and arctic plant ecology The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...

*Job alert*
Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate.
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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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

🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough.

📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social

"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy

@irnase.bsky.social