Michaela A. Dippold

Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints - npj Science of Plants npj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints

We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change.
Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Lithology modulates soil priming effects via resource limitations and microbial network complexity Xinyu Hou, Peilei Hu, Juan Li, Kelin Wang, Wei Zhang This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Soil priming effect (PE) is a process where r…

📰Published📰Lithology modulates soil priming effects via resource limitations and microbial network complexity🦠

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Interesting in New Phytologist:
The origin and evolution of root mucilage
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Lead by Meisam Nazari

#roots #rhizosphere #mucilage #mycorrhiza #Soil

New in Geoderma: "No detectable elevated soil carbon under organic farming in German croplands − results from two soil surveys" by Axel Don, Kimberley Brügge, David Emde, Konstantin Aiteew & Christopher Poeplau. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

📢 #JobAlert: You are from East Africa and search for a #PhD position in crop production? Only 5 days to deadline - please apply! Amazing #maize field experiments @uni-goettingen.de & @JOOUST (Kenya) await you. Many #root & #rhizosphere traits to explore in the KAAD-project @unituebingen.bsky.social!

Fig. 1 Lignin accumulation in cell walls differentially covers the surface of polysaccharides and fills in the cell wall void spaces to dynamically adjust cell wall hygroscopic and mechanical properties.

#TansleyReview: Physiological roles of #lignins – tuning cell wall hygroscopy and #biomechanics

Pesquet, Cesarino, Kajita & Pawlowski
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Phosphorus-related traits of fungal endophyte communities in Marchantia polymorpha across sites with varying human disturbance - Plant and Soil Background and Aims The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha cannot associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi but hosts other endophytes that may aid to cope with environmental conditions. The impact of ...

New paper out from the lab! We are excited to share our recent publication on Phosphorus-related traits of fungal endophyte communities in Marchantia polymorpha!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My personal highlights: "Wir können Alles außer Ozean" great description for our amazing GeoEnviro-Department @unituebingen.bsky.social - THE place-to-be for geo-ecology & environmental science if the marine system is not your focus. And: dinner à la "Night at the Museum"
Congrats to UT #Geoecology!

The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene - Nature Communications Anthropogenic climate change is projected to cause “Day Zero Drought”, when water demand exceeds supply, emerging as early as 2030 and occurring more frequently than recovery allows, posing escalating...

The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene
#Water #WaterScarcity #ClimateChange
@natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative After COP30 Fire and Floods: AMOC Shutdown

When a government speaks responsibly about climate risks. Iceland's climate minister Jóhannsson:
"We believe that confronting climate tipping points and the risks they pose openly is not a sign of 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism and responsibility."
youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?...

Steht das Weltklima auf der Kippe? Auf der Weltklimakonferenz geht es darum, die Erderwärmung einzudämmen. Falls das nicht gelingt, könnten einige Bereiche dauerhaft geschädigt werden - etwa die Korallenriffe. So steht es im Global Tip...

"Dadurch, dass wir 1.5 Grad überschreiten werden, bringen wir entscheidende Kipppunkte des Erdsystems in Gefahr," so PIKs Nico Wunderling. Das wären z.B. der Amazonas-Regenwald, die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation, Eisschilde auf Grönland/der Antarktis.
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima...

Another paper showing that the fungus Trichoderma associates with #Marchantia in a natural environment! 😎

Versäumnisse der Regierung Johnson - Corona-Bericht: Tausende vermeidbare Tote in Großbritannien Eine Expertenkommission in Großbritannien wirft der damaligen konservativen Regierung von Premier Johnson schwere Versäumnisse zum Beginn der Corona-Pandemie 2020 vor.

www.deutschlandfunk.de/corona-beric...
Ich hatte mal überschlagen, dass eine ca. 2-3 Woche spätere Reaktion in D ca. 60.000 zusätzliche Todesfälle bedeutet hätte. Das scheint wohl mit dieser Schätzung aus UK übereinzustimmen.

Is the world too exhausted to fight the climate crisis? - RUSSH Journalist and author Elfy Scott traces the grief and resilience of climate activism in an age of political and environmental tumult.

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 20, 2025 ~ Bright green truths.

"A global pandemic, competing existential crises and the sinister spread of right-wing populism have exhausted so many of us, rendering us either too shell-shocked or cynical to engag with something so painful."

FLIM analyses of the fungal and plant structures.

An arbuscular mycorrhiza from the 407-million-year-old Windyfield Chert identified through advanced fluorescence and Raman imaging

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Summary also available in French and Spanish.

@nhm-london.bsky.social #PlantScience

Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

🚨 New paper! ❄️📄

New paper by @matthias-huss.bsky.social Huss, Andreas Bauder & colleagues document the extinction of #Pizolgletscher, using 130+ years of observations 📊🏔️. A rare chance to follow a glacier from a healthy state to its final disappearance.

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/aog.2025.10024

Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...

New Comment:

A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From left to right: A headshot of Dr. Zoe Lindo, the cover of the book, "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", and a headshot of Dr. Richard Bardgett. Beneath each headshot is the individual's name.

🎉Register now for December's GSBI Speaks🎉

Dr. Richard Bardgett will be chatting with Dr. Zoë Lindo about his upcoming book, "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems"!

Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Average political lean is negatively associated with average news quality of news shared across platforms.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/CzKQ50XsRs5

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/ERge50XsRs6.

Tübingen's Geoecology is celebrating it's 25th birthday this weekend with the annual VGÖD meeting: we offer a research symposium, poster cafés, guided tours & @chriswernerlab.bsky.social + Volker Mosgrubber from @sgn.one as invited spekears at our evening lectures. Registeration tinyurl.com/4r4y9fsb

The contribution of rock strength to soil production - Nature Findings from a tectonically active mountain range show that soil production is driven by bottom-up rock weakening rather than by soil thickness, challenging long-held top-down models.

Nature research paper: The contribution of rock strength to soil production

go.nature.com/3K0XYzE

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...

"Long-term research carries an intrinsic paradox: its true value emerges only after decades, whereas political agendas often demand short-term results. This mismatch makes sustained monitoring one of the easiest targets when public budgets come under pressure."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.

#Review

Bacteria can “remember” past environments through genetic & biochemical imprints helping them adapt and thrive! 🦠🧠

#MicroSky

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

Exploring the concept of bacterial memory - Nature Microbiology This Perspective discusses the concept, mechanisms and evidence for memory in bacteria at individual and community levels.

Exploring the concept of bacterial memory www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Wie das Asylrecht immer weiter ausgehöhlt wird Obwohl das Asylrecht im Grundgesetz verankert ist, kommt es immer mehr zu einer de-facto Abschaffung des Asyls. Symbolisch gibt es das Recht auf Asyl, doch in vielen Fällen wird der tatsächliche Zugan...

Obwohl das Asylrecht im Grundgesetz verankert ist, kommt es immer mehr zu einer de-facto Abschaffung des Asyls. In vielen Fällen wird der tatsächliche Zugang zu dem Grundrecht verhindert - oft auch durch bewussten und systematischen Rechtsbruch.

and now after subproject 1 the next #JobAlert: SP2 of #MultiStress @uni-goettingen.de will offer a KAAD-funded #PhDopportunity for an East African scholar interested in ecophysiological stress responses in #maize detected by multi-spectral imaging
Take your chance an apply #AcademicJobs #scholarship

🌎 6 years of data from Cedar Creek Reserve show that warming consistently reduced plant diversity in grasslands, with stronger and more variable effects than drought—highlighting the need for long-term studies of climate impacts on biodiversity👇
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Translational insights into abiotic interactions: From Arabidopsis to crop plants We highlight milestones in plant hypoxia research contributing to advances in field (and will continue to do so) @roederlab.bsky.social @cargueso.bsky.social @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Climate niche analysis predicts 2,554 potential new alien vascular plant species could invade the Arctic, emphasising urgent need for biosecurity and monitoring under climate change.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...

@liverpooluni.bsky.social