Rémy Beugnon

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Entre réalité de gestion et optimisation écologique, comment diversifier nos forêts ? Une équipe menée par des chercheurs du Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) montre, dans une étude parue dans Natu

🌳 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞́𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞́ 𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞̂𝐭𝐬 ?
Une étude menée par 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐄𝐅𝐄 montre que la plantation de forêts riches en espèces d’arbres variées est un enjeu majeur face au changement climatique.
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⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland

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#EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

INVITED OPINION
A Framework for Modelling Thermal Load Sensitivity Across Life

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This work means a lot to me—both scientifically and personally.
Endless gratitude to the wonderful team who believed in my weird ideas from the beginning

📄 Read the open-access article: rdcu.be/evtXs

#ecology #biodiversity #reforestation #forestscience

The takeaway:
🧠 Biodiversity effects in forests are not only about how many species but how they’re arranged.
📐 Spatial design matters—and we should take it seriously in reforestation & afforestation efforts.

Our results?
More spatially mixed (heterogeneous) forests:
✅ Grow more biomass
✅ Distribute litterfall more evenly
✅ Boost decomposition and nutrient cycling
🌍 Especially in more diverse (8-species) communities!

Reforestation isn’t just about planting more trees. It’s also about how we plant them.
Using the data from the BEF-China experiment, we simulated how different spatial arrangements of tree species affect:
🌱 Tree growth
🍂 Litterfall
🌿 Decomposition

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms

We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning.

🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs

👇 A short thread

The right mix and planting pattern of trees enhance forest productivity and services By modelling different planting design strategies and species mixtures, researchers offer insights for sustainable forest management, reforestation, and climate change mitigation in a new paper.

🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition.

🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🚨 To all #microclimate aficionados, this is a major update of the #SoilTemp initiative which has just metamorphosed into the beautiful #MEB network for #microclimate #ecology & #biogeography #network

The #SoilTemp initiative 🐛 turns to #MEB network 🦋

⬇️ Check it out ⬇️

Really important resource!

we prepared detail manual for working with #microclimate time-series and microclimatic maps in #Rstats

covers a lot - from #TMS_loggers installation and calibration to advanced data analyses with #myClim

originally in czech, but #AI translated to english: labgis.ibot.cas.cz/metodika-ppz...

SoilTemp is now MEB! Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud!

Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:

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Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress

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🚨 Stat tips 🚨

Are you aware of the regression to the mean #RTM effect?

This artefact is often overlooked in #ecology & especially in biodiversity resurveys 🌳🍄🦔🦅🦎🦋🐝🐞 It basically shows up each time you investigate changes between 2 time events: t2 vs t1

Let me unfold it for you 🧵

Call for workshops for the #MEB2026!

Single- vs mixed-species plantations: A systematic review on the effects on biodiversity 🌳🌲https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725002198

👀 Behind the paper

This study grew out of an inspiring BSc course where students tackled every stage of the research process—from formulating the question to writing the manuscript. A true hands-on (fast) journey into science!

In conclusion:

"These findings show that intensive land use and climate change may compromise the activity of soil microbial communities as well as their respiration under heatwaves."

We show that:

1. "soil microbial respiration was reduced under high land-use intensity [...] and future climate conditions"

2. "heat stress increased overall microbial respiration"

3. "increasing land-use intensity reduced the strength of this [microbial respiration] response [to heat stress]"

with @msoil.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social incl. @lisethouvenot.bsky.social @yuan2025.bsky.social @christianristok.bsky.social and the bachelor students from @unileipzig.bsky.social

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Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress Soil microbes are crucial for healthy ecosystems, but climate change and intensive farming may reduce their functioning. We tested how heat stress affects microbial respiration in soils under differe....

📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣

We are delighted to share our latest piece

🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️

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A few people have responded to this paper by saying "well people freaked out about calculators too".

It's a funny comparison because people *are* using chatbots as calculators - and they suck. This tested the accuracy of an LLM to perform simple multiplication

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Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios

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Climate mitigation potential for targeted forestation after considering climate change, fires, and albedo Targeted forestation, considering climate dynamics and disturbances, could unlock significant carbon mitigation potential.

Climate mitigation potential for targeted forestation after considering climate change, fires, and albedo | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Graphical summary of 10 quick tips to get started with Bayesian statistics and how they fit into a larger view of an analytical workflow with Bayesian models.

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗

✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater

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REVIEW
Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Resilience Using Earth Observation Data: Identifying Consensus and Limitations Across Metrics

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