Our findings offer valuable insights into how environmental conditions and ploidy levels interact to shape ecological relationships and cytotype distributions, enhancing our understanding of the long-term establishment and persistence of polyploids.
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💡 Result 2: Why does this happen?
Competitive outcomes were driven by functional traits 🌿 :
• SLA (growth strategy) contributes to competitive effects
• AN, Fv/Fm, iWUE (photosynthesis & water-use efficiency) are involve in competition tolerance
17.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
💡 Result 1: Water availability shifts the balance.
• Under high water: lower ploidy levels (2x and 4x) outcompeted higher ploidy cytotypes
• Under drought: 6x and 12x gain the competitive edge
👉 Overall, we predict competitive exclusion, with coexistence only in 4x–12x (control) and 2x–4x (drought)
17.09.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To test this, we ran a greenhouse competition experiment with 4 cytotypes of the wild carnation Dianthus broteri (2x, 4x, 6x, 12x) under two contrasting watering regimes 💧/🚫💧
17.09.2025 10:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Polyploidy is an important mechanism in plant evolution. However, even within those polyploid plant species that become established initially, only a few persist in the long term. One possible explanation for this is the competition between polyploids and their parentals in secondary contact zones
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💧Water shapes the fate of polyploid plants! In Dianthus broteri, higher polyploids thrive in dry conditions, while lower ploidy levels win when water is abundant, thanks to key functional physiological traits.🌼#Polyploidy buff.ly/alH3z1m
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Last week we were in Pontevedra for the @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social congress! 🌿 I presented our work on how soil water availability shapes competitive dynamics between cytotypes in a polyploid complex 💧📊 Grateful for the inspiring talks & great discussions! #SIBECOL2025 #PlantEcology #Polyploidy
10.06.2025 05:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌿 ¿Trabajas con plantas poliploides?
Envía tu resumen al simposio Ecología y evolución en plantas poliploides en #SEBOT2025 🌱
📍 Sevilla, 22–25 sept
🗓️ Deadline: 30 mayo
Organizan: F. Balao & A. Rodríguez (Univ. Sevilla)
🔗 www.congresosebot2025.com/index.php?se...
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Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • #PhilSci #HistSTM #philsky • Escribo y edito
CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥
Web: https://www.uv.es/jgpausas/index.htm
Blog: http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/
Plant ecologist at the University of Sevilla
Botanist and Ecologist.
PhD in Ecology, currently working at Universidad de Sevilla.
Plants, spatial phylogenetics and conservation.
plants & R & beer
NSF Postdoc Fellow with U of Michigan | PhD from UF I polyploidy evolution + Botany | https://mlgaynor.com/
Ecologist • postdoc at Basque Centre for Climate Change • diversity × interactions × stability × function • 🌱🌊 — he/him
Formerly: Fulbright @ncstate.bsky.social, Santander Iberoamérica UNESP-Río Claro, FPU @unisevilla.bsky.social
FLOWer Lab of the Centre for Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra - Plant #Ecology and #Evolution (in particular #Polyploidy), #Pollination Services and #Agroecology led by João Loureiro and Sílvia Castro
Grupo de trabajo de la AEET. Interesados en la ecología de las especies invasoras y el estudio de su gestión para la restauración de los espacios degradados.
https://www.aeet.org/es/gruposdetrabajo/ecologia_de_las_invasiones.html
Sharing the art of scientific learning! 🌍💡
Courses, coaching, and events to connect researchers in life & earth sciences. We want to empower collaboration, equity, & innovation.
#TScourses #KeepLearning
Join us on our quest to understand more about Biodiversity and the Planet. The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @Stockholm_Uni.
Evolutionary Biologist at University of Granada. Senior Lecturer. Amateur cake maker. Diversity is nice in people & nature. He/him 🥋🥼🥾🔬🌼🐝
http://biochangenet.org
Científico y profesor de universidad interesado en ecología y preocupado por el cambio global. Aprendiz del viento, corredor incansable y amante de las cometas.
linktr.ee/fervalladares
🌱🔬🌊🌍 Sociedad Ibérica de Ecología - Sociedade Ibérica de Ecologia - Iberian Society of Ecology
"Another science is possible: diversity, degrowth, and sustainability in ecological research".
📅 2-6th June, Pontevedra, Galicia.
https://sibecol-aeet-meeting2025.org/Index/26/Registration
Ig: sibecol_aeet_2025
Professor in ecology at CSIC, mainly researching into wetland ecology, especially waterbirds and dispersal processes (e.g. seed dispersal, AMR, plastics). Mancunian. Alumnus of Magdalen and Wolfson Colleges
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andy-Green-7
Postdoctoral researcher (JdC) at the Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC) || Associate editor at Journal of Applied Ecology || Exploring the impact of global change on plant-based species interactions
#Genobotanist and #bioinformatician interested in #plant_domestication and #evolution. Scientist at IBMCP. Former faculty at LaStatale and VTCals.
#PlantBiologist Full professor @BiologiaUS studying #polyploidy #carnations, #phenotypicplasticity #molecularecology #functionalgenomics
http://personal.us.es/fbalao/
Ecologist working with species interactions, community dynamics and biodiversity maintenance 🌺🐝🌿
📍Berlin, Germany
