Sharath Paligi

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/...

Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social

www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

Nordic Oikos 2026 | Nordic Society Oikos Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

Our first in-person KI-Recover team meeting in Sankt Oswald! 🌲✨
We were thrilled by the collaborative energy, fresh ideas, and strong alignment during the workshop. The field excursion was a highlight. Excited for what’s next!

Watercolour painting of a young Tulip Poplar tree on the cover of 'Journal Experimental Botany', for volume 76, Issue 18, 2025

The cover of @jxbotany.bsky.social is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves!
A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project
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@brodersenlab.bsky.social

The new #IUCN red list shows that 15% of European butterfly species are now threatened with extinction - and one is already extinct.

I'll be sharing butterfly photos on my Instagram (bio_miky) to keep awareness alive 🦋

#conservation #butterflies #redlist

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) It is autumn, when the trees go to sleep. Right? Not quite. This time of year is a very busy one in the life of a temperate tree. Yes, they are preparing for the dormant season by carefully moving nu...

Although they seem to be going to sleep, temperate trees are very busy right now. Fine roots are growing, and inside the buds, next years leaves, stems, and flowers are being formed. That means that autumn weather determines some or all of next year's growth. Read about it at Our Trees.

@enricounigoe.bsky.social is hosting a mini conference on October 23rd with a variety of speakers in Göttingen! Please consider registering and joining for this cool opportunity to hear about some great science!

Great news! 🌱 Last week Christine Wallis and Robert Jackisch received funding for KI-Recover, supported by the German Environment Ministry. The project uses AI to boost sustainable forestry — from climate-resilient tree selection to smarter reforestation. 🌳🤖
#AI #ClimateAction #Forests

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) Stephen Hales was born on this day in 1677. He is a towering figure as a scientist, and the founder of plant physiology, my discipline. He applied the principles of Newtonian physics to study fluid f...

Happy Birthday to Stephen Hales, born on this day in 1677. He was a parish priest in Teddington, England, but found time to do important experiments on fluid flow in plants and animals. He is the founder of plant physiology, my discipline. Have a look at this story at Our Trees.

Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning The relationship between tree carbon (C) assimilation and growth is central to understanding tree functioning and forecasting forest C sequestration, yet remains unresolved. The long-standing debate ...

🌳 New Tansley Insight!
What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔
I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

Picture of a smiling scientist next to the room label for room 2.007.

54th GfÖ Annual Meeting, Wednesday September 03, 2025 / 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM, "33-08 - Plasticity in thermotolerance in Central European timber species"

Are you at #gfoe2025 and curious about how sensitive Central European trees are to high temperatures? Come see my talk on Wednesday, September 3rd in Room 2.007 at 14:25!

Member of state parliament Pippa Schneider visiting our tower site Göttinger Wald. Great discussions about the projects FoResLab and DIVERSA, forest resilience and climate change, nature conservation and politics.
@foreslab.bsky.social‬
@pippaschneider.bsky.social‬

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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Feeling grateful and happy to reach this milestone! 🎓 Thanks all for joining me on this day :)
Huge thanks to my supervisors, collaborators, the amazing team at @enricounigoe.bsky.social & Plant Ecology dept 🙏🌳
Proud of what we achieved, excited for what’s next! 🚀

Why you should (almost) never write a negative book review Negative book reviews are great fun to read. There’s a dark delight to be found in a comprehensive take-down of a book, especially if you side with the reviewer. The Schadenfreude is even mor…

We all enjoy reading negative book reviews, but there is almost no justification for writing one. You can just choose not to.

More information: www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-einrich...

Ever been asked, "Can't we just leave the forest alone?"⁉️ Get ready to hear expert opinions and cutting-edge research results.
Join us this Saturday, June 21st, at 7 PM in ZHG 101 for a panel discussion "Mensch und Wald - Zwischen Fakten und Gefühlen" at the Night of Science!
See you there!
#ndwgoe

🌱 The first issue of Plant Ecophysiology is out!

Chief Editor Jaume Flexas shares his vision for the future of plant science publishing—and how Plant-Environment Interactions is leading the way.

A standout feature? Reviewers are paid for their work.

Editorial: media.sciltp.com/articles/250...

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

Field team in Wytham Woods May 2025

Image of the new Biology Building, completed, and opening from August 2025

Lunch with the field team to celebrate another successful season - May 2025

Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests - Nature Communications Tree mortality is increasing due to droughts and other climate change-related stressors, but isolating climate signals for tree mortality is challenging. Here, the authors assemble a geo-referenced gl...

Driver appears to be hotter-drought, am presently putting the last year in longer-term context. But little/no rain from July '24 through June '25, atop some record heat. It's a story we've come to know too well from global forest mortality event observations, e.g. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Successfull week in Vienna @egu.eu presenting the latest results of our CRC @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
Curious to learn more about the latest development in novel sensor networks for environmental sensing? Join us for our international conference in September! @chriswernerlab.bsky.social

Doughnut academia. Adapting the “doughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings. Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license.

Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist. 1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards “slow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.

Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone.

@clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991

But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population

Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports

Please RT: Interested in a #PhD in real-time #isotope measurements in #tree #xylem under #drought in the black forest?

Are you enthusiastic about #waterstableisotopes in forest trees? 🌲🌳💧

We offer a PhD position on ecohydrological feedbacks in forests under recurrent drought.

Join our team in Freiburg:
uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

@chriswernerlab.bsky.social
@uni-freiburg.de @hydrofreiburg.bsky.social

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Want great summer plans? Look no further! The PSInet workshop is coming to Indiana University, to re-introduce the ecophys community to PSInet, a new open-access network database of plant water potential measurements.

psinetrcn.github.io/posts/2025-0...

Reminder - Don't forget about our grants! We offer #grants for undergrads & graduate students doing research, going to symposia or workshops, and more, and the deadline for submission is coming up soon - Feb 15! Details can be found here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/

#botany 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾