FACE-ing the Amazon's Future 🌳
The burning of fossil #fuels, megafires and land-use changes drive #CO2 levels up. How will that affect the #Amazon? 🤔
A spectacular international project is about to find out - and #ECH from #univie is on board. 🔍 ⤵️ @loutsi.bsky.social
#COP30 #climate

Eight “Highly Cited Researchers” at CeMESS CeMESS is proud to announce that eight of its researchers across all its four divisions have been named on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world's most highly cited researchers. This prestigious recogn...

Crazy that THREE of our researchers at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research are Highly Cited Researchers 2025! And a total of 8 of Austria’s 54 are part of our Centre, CeMESS @cemess.bsky.social.

@loutsi.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social

ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

Organizer Thilo Hofmann @cemess.bsky.social, contributions from 30+ @univie.ac.at scientists, incl @michiwagner4.bsky.social, @christinakaiser.bsky.social, Stephan Krämer, @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @ppjevac.bsky.social, @andreasrichter.bsky.social, and @loutsi.bsky.social from our cluster.

Free online course “Environmental Emergencies: Navigating Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Environmental Pollution” starts Oct 1. Interdisciplinary course on triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution. imoox.at/course/envem, www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wp...

Soils rock, obviously. And microbes too!

Professorship opening @ter-cemess.bsky.social. Fantastic team and world-class research environment!
Join us at @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Photo: an area of subarctic grassland in southwest Iceland, near the village of Hveragerði.

Photo: Sara Marañón at an area of subarctic grassland in southwest Iceland, near the village of Hveragerði.

Photo: Sara Marañón at an area of subarctic grassland in southwest Iceland, near the village of Hveragerði.

A 💥NEW STUDY💥 has found that warming depletes the Arctic soil’s nitrogen stores, irreversibly increasing CO₂ emissions! ⛰️ The reason why? 🧵

✍️This research has been published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social & led by our researcher @saramaranonjimenez.bsky.social, also researcher at @uab.cat!

It was so exciting to speak in such a beautiful hall, and did the opportunity to talk about traits of tropical roots, and the @tropiroot.bsky.social initiative at the #rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh this week!

Check out the poster by @daniarandi.bsky.social later today! Looking forward to learn more about halophyte microbiomes! #rhizosphere6

If you are at #rhizosphere6 and interested in fine root functional traits, go talk to @elsaelsam.bsky.social from @zalf.bsky.social. If you (like me - tearfully) miss out on this event, check out the paper in the thread below 😉

Brandnew out in Ecology, led by @tropiroot.bsky.social member Amanda Longhi!
The TropirRoot root trait database 1.0!!!

We're organizing an invited talk series featuring authors of recent publications on roots and belowground dynamics, focusing on their role in shaping aboveground functions and ecosystem processes. Please feel free to comment or email us relevant paper suggestions at tropiroottrait@gmail.com. Thanks

The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!

AmazonFACE está contratando pós doc. Vagas de:
1- Traços funcionais relacionados à fotossíntese
2- Características da madeira e relações de crescimento
3- Impactos no ciclo biogeoquímico
4- Modelagem de vegetação - processos hidrológicos/ hidráulicos

Gross soil phosphorus fluxes remain constant along forest recovery trajectories in Central Africa Phosphorus (P) is crucial for ecosystem functioning, yet primary productivity in many tropical regrowth forests on highly weathered soils is assumed t…

Congratulations to Viktor Van de Velde from the UGhent and all the team to the publication of a chapter of his PhD thesis! We were investigating microbial soil P cycling rates in recovering forest after agricultural use in forests in the DRC, find out more here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...

Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

We are happy to share the new research findings on below-ground root trait dynamics, led by TropiRoot members: Oscar Valverde‐Barrantes, @laylugli.bsky.social @loutsi.bsky.social @kmander7.bsky.social @kaaze7.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #fineroots #tropiroots

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location *in the world* to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Don't let science be hidden

📢📢TropiRoot has transitioned to a new leadership team for next two years and is gearing up for exciting projects ahead! We’re expanding our outreach efforts and networking.
If you’re a tropical root researcher, interested in synthesizing and mobilizing your data, we’d love to connect with you!

Happy Boxing Day to all cats who celebrate! 📦🐈‍⬛

How do soil microbes respond to climate change?
Show off your cool studies at #EGU25 and submit your abstract now!

And I want to add a *challenging* environmental conditions

Welcome to Bluesky @albertocanarini.bsky.social

Wuuuhuuu!

Have you wondered why fungi could have more resilience during environmental conditions? They can produce storage compounds which may help them to remain active!

Thanks to all the team, esp. Alberto Canarini and Jörg Schnecker for conducting this experiment during challenging lockdowns!

GitHub - gzahn/mycobank Contribute to gzahn/mycobank development by creating an account on GitHub.

#mycology folks... Ever wanted to programmatically search fungal names for synonyms on Mycobank? Notice that the R package for this has been broken for 7 years?
I've got you covered:
github.com/gzahn/mycoba...

Easy tools with only tidyverse dependency.

Many congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social for receiving the Environment and Climate Award 2024. Very much deserved, Lucia!
#TER @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at

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