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#CBC2026Leipzig #Biodiversity #ClimateScience #BehaviouralScience

@unileipzig.bsky.social @ufz.de @idiv-research.bsky.social

We are searching a new colleague! You want to do a PhD about climate change effects on forest ecosystems and you are interested in functional traits? We are looking forward to receiving your application! Deadline 20 Feb.

Forest interactions Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.

Save the date!

48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions

📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland

www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps

#PlantScience

Registration is now open! 📢
Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium — a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries.
📍 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig
📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd

#Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity

New paper by @castretis.bsky.social et al in @natcomms.nature.com - read more about it here: www.idiv.de/worlds-large...

🌳Check our new review paper about “what the worldwide forest biodiversity experiments tell us“ in the last three decades.

Very happy to see my first PhD chapter being published 🤍
Take a look if you are interested in how tree species richness and mycorrhizal associations affect soil multifunctionality on a small scale 🌳🌳

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵

A peek behind the scenes 🔬💧
PhD candidate Michele ter Huurne is extracting water from soil and twig samples to trace where trees get their water using δ18O isotopes.
Huge thanks to Dr. Matthias Saurer @wslresearch.bsky.social for the guidance and lab support!
#droughtresearch #biodiversity #forest

Cover image of the November issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a caterpillar of the emperor moth Gonimbrasia belina feeding on a leaf. The cover headline reads "Tree growth and herbivory"

Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on 🧪

🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC

Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗝️ Feierliche Schlüsselübergabe im Botanischen Garten: Wir freuen uns über einen Forschungsneubau, das Herbarium und den umfassend sanierten Altbau des Institutsbereichs Geobotanik der MLU. 🌱🎉 mlu.de/cn0pb

@sachsen-anhalt.de @armin-willingmann.bsky.social @geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social

Finanzminister Michael Richter (links) und Wissenschaftsminister Armin Willingmann (rechts) überreichen den symbolischen Schlüssel für das sanierte Gebäude des Institutsbereichs Geobotanik an der Universität Halle an Rektorin Claudia Becker (Mitte). Sie stehen im Hörsaal vor versammelten Gästen.

Geobotaniker Helge Bruelheide (rechts) führte die Gäste durch den Forschungsneubau. Neben ihm stehen Kanzler Alfred Funk, Rektorin Claudia Becker und Wissenschaftsminister Armin Willingmann (von links).

Der Leiter des Herbariums Marcus Lehnert erklärte das Archiv des Herbariums bei einer Führung. Links neben ihm steht Wissenschaftsminister Armin Willingmann.

Wissenschaftsminister Armin Willingmann im Gespräch mit zwei Personen im weißen Kittel im Forschungsneubau.

Der Institutsbereich @geobotanymluhalle.bsky.social hat an der MLU eine lange Tradition und prägt die internationale Biodiversitätsforschung. Mit zwei Neubauten & der Sanierung des Hauptgebäudes erhalten Forschende und Studierende die Basis, um diese Erfolgsgeschichte fortzuschreiben. mlu.de/a7u5l

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/...

We’re thrilled to announce that the GfÖ Annual Conference 2026 will be a joint event with the Nordic Society OIKOS (NSO), taking place in Odense, Denmark! 🇩🇰✨

See you on 14-17 Sep 2026!

nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

#NSO2026 #gfoe2026

Check our new study about the importance of dissimilarity in water-use strategies for tree growth during drought years in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🌳💧Thanks @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social for leading this study so brilliantly

Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change

New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity
www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

Scenes from the @treedi.bsky.social conference 🌳
Participants joined Prof. Christian Wirth for a guided tour through the ARBOFun arboretum - exploring how long-term measurements help us understand forest dynamics and tree functioning #treeDi #ForestEcology #PlantScience

Neue Ausgabe des Konfuzius Magazins mit einem Artikel über TreeDì: "Wald und Waldforschung in China" ab Seite 8.
www.konfuziusinstitut-leipzig.de/konfuzius-in...

Inspiring joint conference of @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social, with 20 presentations by doctoral researchers, 7 workshops, 5 international keynote speakers, 1 excursion and 1 guided city tour.

🎉 Exciting news: The BAAE Best Student Paper Award is here! @basicapplecol.bsky.social will recognize remarkable student research with a €500 prize, highlighting emerging ecological scholars. 🌿 The award will be presented yearly at the GfÖ conference. 🌟

👉 gfoe.org/de/gfoe-prei...

The start of a hopefully successful week of collaboration and research exchange 🔥 at our joint conference of #TreeDi 🌳and #MultiTroph 🐜🪲🕷 at the #idiv, Leipzig.

Georg Albert, our synthesis postdoc, shiws how species interactions shape (multi) functions in the BEF-China experiment.

Joint conference between @treedi.bsky.social and @multitroph.bsky.social has begun in Leipzig! Good way to start my last year of PhD 🕷🐛🐝🌿

Excellent keynote talk by Yi Li showing eg that multidiversity is more important in forests than in grasslands @treedi.bsky.social

We are just starting our @treedi.bsky.social and #MultiTroph joint conference. 😊. Stay turned 🎄🌲🌳🎄🌳🌲

Vier Personen führen in einem Wald in Italien eine Probenentnahme durch. Eine Person steht auf einer Leiter und greift in die Bäume, zwei weitere arbeiten am Boden mit Stangen, eine weitere Person beobachtet. Der Waldboden ist mit Ästen bedeckt, die Bäume tragen dichtes grünes Laub.

Peter Dietrich (links) und Doktorand Michael Köhler stehen im Labor.

Kleine Organismen, große Wirkung? MLU-Biologe @drpeterdietrich.bsky.social erforscht Mikroorganismen in & auf Bäumen. 🌳 Mit Hilfe modernster Sequenzierungstechnik will er verstehen, wie sich z. B. der Klimawandel auf die Gemeinschaft dieser Organismen auswirkt & welche Folgen das hat. mlu.de/bcjf6

Scenes from China, where PhD student Michèle ter Huurne is doing fieldwork with the @treedi.bsky.social project: forests, measurements, and big smiles between long days. Keep it up, Michèle!🌱📷
Photos: Michele ter Huurne #TreeDi #Fieldwork

The art of creating images made of tea foam originated in the Song Dynasty (960 to 1279). We tried it with the TreeDì logo at the tea culture show during our summer school.

The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Ecology & Evolution It is unclear whether the linkage between tree species richness and insect herbivory is consistent across climates and forest types. Here, the authors analyse data from forest biodiversity experiments...

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing their expertise in Scientific Writing & Publishing: Prof. Sylvia Haider @leuphana.bsky.social, Dr. Tesfaye Wubet @ufz.de and Susan Trumbore teaching at the TreeDì Summer School at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing last week.