Grazing mediates microclimate effects on lichen performance near its warm-range margin AbstractBackground and Aims. Climate influences species performance and distribution both directly, through physiological constraints, and indirectly, by m

This shows that biotic interactions—and population‑level variation—matter for predicting climate change responses.
#Ecology #Microclimate #BioticInteractions #Lichens #PlantEcology #ForestEcology @kristofferhylander.bsky.social @linegreis.bsky.social

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Urbanization shapes evolution through both chance (drift, colonization history) and selection, and new species interactions can rapidly rewrite that evolutionary story. (9/9)

👉 doi.org/qtm4

#Plantscience #AoBpapers #UrbanEvolution #PlantEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #FlowerColour #UrbanEcology

The cover of the January-February issue of Applications in Plant Sciences. The photo shows the mature fruit of the Australian bush tomato Solanum tudununggae, with a grayish prickly calyx in the foreground and flowers with purple corolla and yellow anthers plus silvery-blue foliage in background. Photo credit: @martinebotany.bsky.social

#AppsPlantSci special issue "Quantifying #PlantDispersal: New methods from multiple disciplines" is online!

Thanks to editors @noellebeckman.bsky.social, Sally Chambers, Irene Cobo-Simón & @llseedsull.bsky.social

Check out the intro: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantEcology

Elevational Shifts in Tropical Tree Leaf Traits: Interactions between Soil, Climate, Light, and Phylogeny Understanding how tropical trees respond to complex environmental gradients is essential for predicting forest resilience under climate change. We examined variation in key leaf traits, including spec...

🌿How do tropical trees adjust their ecological strategies along environmental gradients?

Using leaf functional traits and stable isotopes from 160 species along a 3200-m elevational transect on Mount Cameroon, found👉 doi.org/10.53941/pla...

#PlantEcology #FunctionalTraits #Biogeochemistry

My buddy Dr. Ped Daneshgar is doing a free #webinar March 19th at 7pm EST all about #carnivorousplants! Through Wild Ones, a native plant non-profit. Anyone can attend.

Registration link: wildones-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#scicomm #plants #nativeplants #freewebinar #plantecology #ecology

A new plant association of the alliance Saxifragion australis described by drone-based phytosociology in northeastern Sicily (Peloritani Mountains) Although the chasmophytic vegetation of Sicily has been examined previously, it remains insufficiently explored due to the formidable challenges associated with accessing vertical cliff habitats. This...

🌿Using drones, we described a new plant association for science, on the inaccessible cliffs in Sicily. The paper is now published in @vegecoldiv.bsky.social, the official journal of the Italian Society of Vegetation Science (SISV)! doi.org/10.3897/ved....
#drones #plantecology #botany

Illustration of the interdisciplinary frameworks to study seed dispersal, integrating general spatial patterns and processes from the generalized gravity framework, movement ecology paradigm, and seed dispersal effectiveness framework. The text at the top left reads Generalized Gravity Framework; the text at the top right reads Seed Dispersal Effectiveness Framework. From the tree at the center, the text moving to the left reads: "Source Processes," "Relocation Processes," and "Destination Processes"; the text moving rightward from the tree reads: "Quantity," "Vector Quality," and "Seedscape Quality." The text moving downward from the tree reads "Predispersal & Departure," "Drivers of Movement," "Movement Ecology Paradigm," and "Deposition & Postdispersal." The illustration shows various animals carrying diaspores away from the source tree.

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱

Animal-mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods (by @noellebeckman.bsky.social, @jmbecologist.bsky.social, et al)

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #zoochory #PlantEcology #SeedDispersal

Events like #EcoFlor2026 highlight the importance of scientific dialogue and collaboration in advancing ecological research.
#FloralBiology #PlantEcology #AEET

Comparison of two seed rain trap methods in the field: a sticky trap (a Petri dish with a sticky substance sprayed on it) and an artificial grass carpet. Both have known numbers of grassland seeds placed on them.

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci #PlantDispersal issue 🌱

Are they two seeds in a pod? Comparing seed rain recovery in grasslands using artificial grass carpets vs sticky traps (by @llseedsull.bsky.social, DeSiervo, Kahan & Shoemaker)

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantEcology

Acaulescent palms are resilient to disturbances: experimental and global evidence AbstractBackground and Aims. Natural or anthropogenic disturbances influence aerial biomass and drive distinct resilience strategies in plants. Resprouting

🌴Acaulescent palms are remarkably resilient. By investing belowground and resprouting after damage, they persist in disturbance-prone ecosystems, highlighting the importance of underground traits in plant resilience. (9/9)
👉 doi.org/qnrn

#PlantEcology #AoBpapers #PlantScience

Acaulescent palms are resilient to disturbances: experimental and global evidence

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Acaulescent palms are resilient to disturbances: experimental and global evidence’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Gabriela da Silva and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 doi.org/qnrn

@jgpausas.bsky.social

#PlantResilience #PlantEcology #AoBpapers #PlantScience

Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees AbstractBackground and Aims. Fire acts as a primary ecological filter, influencing the structure, composition and evolutionary pathways of savanna ecosyste

🚨 Key takeaway: A single fire can limit reproduction and seed quality for years, highlighting the importance of longer fire-free intervals to allow canopy recovery and healthy seed production. (9/9)

👉 doi.org/qmgq

#PlantEcology #FireEcology #Cerrado #SeedBiology #SavannaEcosystems #PlantScience

Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees

🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Single fire events impose lasting reproductive costs in savanna trees’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Marcelle de Castro Cavalheiro and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/9)

👉 doi.org/qmgq

#PlantEcology #FireEcology #SeedBiology #Cerrado #PlantScience

Drawing by Curtis Lubbe

📢 Root exudates: invisible, fast-changing chemical signals shaping microbes, neighbors and soil. 🦠🌱
A new on our blog ▶️ 📢https://1url.cz/lJAdf
#Rhizosphere #RootExudates #PlantEcology #ExFuMo #GoBelowground #Soil #Exudate #Microbes @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

Between wind and visitors? Insights into floral anatomy, taxonomy and reproductive biology in Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae) AbstractBackground and Aims. The flowers of Cyperaceae, especially in Cyperoideae, have two whorls of perianth (sometimes absent), three stamens and a tric

🐞 Overall, the study reveals how floral anatomy, colour and ecology combine to shape pollination in Cryptangieae, highlighting the need to rethink pollination modes in sedges. (8/8)

👉 doi.org/qmbh

#PlantScience #Pollination #FloralBiology #Cyperaceae #PlantEcology

Variation of Riparian Plant CSR Strategies Across the Gradient of the Water Level Fluctuation and Snowmelt Along the Nyang River, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Clinical and laboratory predictors of long-term neurological outcomes after infectious encephalitis.

🌊 Riparian plant strategies shift with hydrology. Zhang et al. show that water-level fluctuations and climate factors drive variation in competitor, stress-tolerator, and ruderal strategies along the Nyang River, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 🌿📊.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantEcology

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Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

🌿 Soil drives plant strategies. Paiva et al. show that soil conditions and nutrients shape the distribution of CSR strategies in an ironstone montane ecosystem 🌱🔍.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantEcology #TraitEcology

🌱 Climbing plant phenology decoded. Seger et al. show that phylogeny alone poorly predicts timing for individual species, but evolutionary history strongly influences community-level responses to daylength and environmental gradients 🌿📈.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantEcology

🌱 Who prefers ammonium or nitrate?
A JFR study shows woody & herbaceous plants differ in nitrogen uptake, influenced by temperature, precipitation, and soil nitrogen across China.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #NitrogenUptake #PlantEcology #ClimateAdaptation 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤

Pedicularis comosa L. subsp. comosa photographed in summit grasslands on Monte Vesolina (Ligurian Apennines, near the border Liguria/Piedmont) at ~970 m. #botany #flora #PlantEcology

Pedicularis comosa L. subsp. comosa photographed in summit grasslands on Monte Vesolina (Ligurian Apennines, near the border Liguria/Piedmont) at ~970 m. #botany #flora #PlantEcology

Pedicularis comosa L. subsp. comosa photographed in summit grasslands on Monte Vesolina (Ligurian Apennines, near the border Liguria/Piedmont) at ~970 m. #botany #flora #PlantEcology

Pedicularis comosa L. subsp. comosa photographed in summit grasslands on Monte Vesolina (Ligurian Apennines, near the border Liguria/Piedmont) at ~970 m. #botany #flora #PlantEcology

Pedicularis comosa L. subsp. comosa photographed in summit grasslands on Monte Vesolina (Ligurian Apennines, near the border Liguria/Piedmont, Italy) at ~970 m. Notable for its low elevation, as the species is native to S European mountains with a subalpine optimum. #botany #flora #PlantEcology

Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology

Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology

Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology

Lathraea squamaria L. Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021. #Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology

Lathraea squamaria L.
Location: Passo del Turchino (Masone, GE, LIG, IT). Late March 2021.

An Eurasian holoparasitic species belonging to Orobanchaceae. The genus Lathraea is sister to Rhinanthus. In Liguria it is widespread but few common.
#Botany #ParasiticPlants #Liguria #PlantEcology

🚨I’m recruiting! #Science #GradSchool #PlantEcology

PhD OR postdoc opportunity to study the factors limiting primary succession on abandoned mine sites. Collaboration with a wonderful interdisciplinary team, from microbiology to remote sensing.

📅 Deadline: Feb 1st, 2026

More info 👇

Network of bird dropping samples and plants. Plants were identified using seed morphology (left) and metabarcoding (right). Colored nodes represent plants detected by both methods, while black nodes indicate plants detected by only one method. Dropping samples are shown as filled, half-filled, or empty, depending on the overlap between methods. Point positions indicate which method detected more plant taxa. Orange markers next to plant names highlight species with mostly dry, non-fleshy fruits that are not typically consumed by birds. Image credit: Carina Isabella Motta

DNA #metabarcoding reveals greater plant diversity than morphological seed analysis of bird feces

New #AppsPlantSci research by Motta, Saranholi, De Godoy & Corrêa Côrtes

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #seeddispersal #PlantEcology #DNAmetabarcoding

#RestorationEcology PhD opportunity at @westernsydneyu.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social in Australia open to international and domestic students. Good opportunity for a traits-based approach to #restoration!

🧪 #PlantEcology #botany #ecology #WildOz

Start of our new root shrinkage campaign on 40 herbaceous species, led by Dr. Anvar Sanaei. Excited to see what we’ll uncover! 🌿 #PlantEcology #Research #BelowgroundEcology #LeipzigUniversity

Blue lotus thrives in warm, tropical climates with abundant sunlight. #PlantEcology

I'm excited about this nice way to collect plot-level species observations, calculating percent coverage or species counts!

If you haven't checked our Pl@ntNet, I find it to be the best app for plant ID.

@plantnet.bsky.social #PlantEcology #OpenData #CitizenScience

youtu.be/BU4ckJgRlHg?...

Welcome to our new #AssociateEditor João Silva!

João will bring his expertise in #Marine #PlantEcology to this role 🌊🌿 He is based at the Centre of Marine Sciences in Portugal, and is also a member of the Euromarine Steering Committee.

“A long-term common garden experiment reveals geocytotype-dependent succession of plant community invaded by Solidago canadensis.” Feng et al. #PlantScience #PlantEcology #InvasiveSpecies　
link.springer.com/article/10.1...