Nicolas Gross

Conclusion of rapid attribution study showing the estimated effects of human-caused climate change on the intensity of hurricane Melissa

Rapid attribution study by @climameter.bsky.social @davifaranda.bsky.social of hurricane #melissa

More at climameter.org

Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators To understand, measure and mitigate biodiversity change, science and policy need to differentiate between diagnostic indicators that capture as many different biodiversity facets as needed, outcome-o...

Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Photo d’une prairie très verte, prise au ras des herbes. Au premier plan on voit des tiges de graminées. À l'arrière-plan, on voit la haie qui borde la prairie. Photo par Juliette Champagne, via Wikimedia Commons

Ces écosystèmes accueillent une riche biodiversité, piègent du carbone, filtrent l’eau, permettent de nourrir des animaux d’élevage… mais ils sont menacés par une utilisation de plus en plus intensive.

Aujourd’hui, nous allons parler des prairies !

Unlocking the hidden biodiversity of Europe’s villages | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

L’agroécologie : une alliée pour la nature, le climat et l’agriculture en Europe

Une méta-analyse de 170 études, dans 21 pays, montre que les systèmes agroécologiques favorisent la biodiversité & le stockage du C dans les sols 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/l...

@agroscope.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social

Highly interesting research by Tamsin Lockwood and colleagues now published in a paper titled

"Semi-natural grasslands as a nature-based solution for climate change mitigation: An assessment of carbon and plant communities across age gradients"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decadal warming depletes topsoil nitrogen stocks in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem

Read the story behind this paper in the @springernature.com Earth & Environment community:

communities.springernature.com/posts/decada...

Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet Sushmita Dhakal, Kazi R Mehnaz, Erin I E Rogers, Ian J Wright, David S Ellsworth This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Phosphorus is an …

📰Published📰Phosphorus recycling: how plants on nutrient poor soils make ends meet🌱

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Congrats! can you send the paper it is a paywall, merci!

📣 🪲 Check out this paper led by @tperrot.bsky.social, which provides a clear demonstration that the intensive use of pesticides can be more detrimental than beneficial for crop production due to their negative impacts on natural pest control.

Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter Land use has diminished global vegetation and soil carbon stocks, contributing substantially to global warming. Our research provides a consistent and unprecedentedly detailed global estimate of the t...

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Reading in journal club:

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself

@plosbiology.org @briannosek.bsky.social
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To meet the targets of the #UN Rio Conventions (#UNCCD, #UNFCCC & #CBD) we must bend the curve of land degradation. Our latest Review in @natureportfolio.nature.com #Nature discusses how to do it by 2050 by urgently transforming global food systems rdcu.be/eACfr #KAUST

Bending the curve of land degradation to achieve global environmental goals - Nature The Rio Conventions’ objectives can be met by transforming food systems to bend the curve of land degradation.

A must read

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

from @ftmaestre.bsky.social et al.!

The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands Aim To evaluate how grazing pressure, a key land-use factor, interacts with climatic, vegetation, and soil variables to shape the fragmentation of perennial vegetation across drylands globally. Lo...

Mitigating vegetation fragmentation in drylands requires promoting plant–soil facilitation, especially under high grazing pressure.

For more see our new paper in #GEB 🌐

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another great outcomes from the #biodesert survey led by
Yanchuang Zhao!

UPF and adiposity. The percentage of daily calorie intake from UPF was positively associated with body fat percentage in bivariate analyses and in multiple regression, including FFM-adjusted total expenditure, age, sex, and HD rank.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Nature - Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

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Brave new world 2.0 - Biogeochemistry Biogeochemistry -

doi.org/10.1007/s105...
"Life on Earth is not confined by our imagined political boundaries between one country and the next, between one state and the next... "

Context matters: Plant diversity affects soil carbon storage differently across ecosystems News and commentary by Gerrit Angst and Šáarka Angst from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology & Biogeochemistry. The photo above is of the Jena Experi…

New on the Belowground blog: plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/c...

Plastics are plan B for the fossil fuel industry.

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

« Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution » TRIBUNE. Alors que la pétition contre le texte réintroduisant l’acétamipride a franchi les deux millions de signataires, des associations de patients et des sociétés savantes médicales ou scientifique...

Tribune signée par un vaste collectif (scientifiques, sociétés savantes, associations, collectifs en santé & environnement, associations de patients) : « Le Conseil constitutionnel doit censurer la loi Duplomb au nom du principe de précaution »

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox

Fabulous post by @randomwalker.bsky.social & Sayash raising the same concern many of us have about whether we're on the right track with how we're using AI for science. Everyone should read it, take a deep breath & think through the implications.

www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

That's us in the picture! 🖼️
Read about diversity-stability relationships in biodiversity experiments such as ours in @natecoevo.nature.com

Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

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Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...

Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...