🌿 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

@mphebert.bsky.social,
Sierra Cagle, @csymons.bsky.social, & I are co-hosting a session at ASLO-SIL 2026. If you work with imaging, -omics or (AI-based) pipelines, please submit an abstract!

SS031: Emerging ideas and technologies transforming aquatic trait-based ecology

#traitecology @aslo.org

Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity Aim The late-Quaternary extinctions, which affected primarily large mammals, are strongly connected to the migration of modern humans out of sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia (the Palaeotropics),...

🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
#Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology

Over the next year, I’ll be combining historical plant collections with cutting-edge tools like machine learning and leaf spectrometry to ask a big question:
Does trait plasticity help plants move or stay put under climate change? 🤔🌿
#Herbaria #TraitEcology