Alice Gauthey

Postdoctoral Position in Mountain Macroecology – Basel | HigherJobz Apply for a Postdoctoral Researcher role in Mountain Macroecology at University of Basel, Switzerland. Deadline: 13 Oct 2025.

Postdoctoral Position – University of Basel, Switzerland
Project: Global status, trends, drivers & impacts of non-native plant species in mountain ecosystems
Eligibility: PhD in related fields
Deadline: 13 Oct 2025
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#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Ecology @unibas.ch

Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7 Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate.
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Sampling success at the @arnoldarboretum.bsky.social with @alyssakullberg.bsky.social and Thibaut. What an amazing place to work! If you have temperature thresholds data and want to join forces, let us know! You'll make us and @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social happy.

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny!

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@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective This review examines the physiological and ecological responses of trees to emerging compound droughts from a water demand and supply perspective, as well as the role of acclimation and consequences ...

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ONE Lectureship in genomics + TWO in ecology are advertised right now in my 'hood. Applications close 7th August. It'd be brilliant to have these filled with plant people. #PlantSciJobs #MonashBiol #plantecology #plantgenomics 🪴🧪🌱🌿🌾 This links to both : www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie...

Global distribution of conifer leaf widths and silhouettes of both broad-leaved conifers and nonbroad-leaved woody angiosperms.

#Viewpoint: Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of #conifers vs #broad-leaves has critical implications for research and modelling

Kate Johnson, Matilda Brown, Katya Bandow & Helena Vallicrosa 👇

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#LatestIssue

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality Increasing drought threatens forests, but tree species respond differently. We examined how long-term drought and rising CO2 affect three Mediterranean tree species with different drought tolerances....

The ability of some trees species to respond to climate and/or CO2 may increase their survival under global change. Species with lower plasticity may face higher mortality. Our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #WhatKillsTrees

🌳Urban trees keep cooling - even during record-breaking heatwaves! We show that trees maintained high transpiration, defying model predictions. Tree cooling during heat may be underestimated 🌡️💦
Great study led by Christoph Bachofen @wslresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...

Ring‐specific vulnerability to embolism reveals accumulation of damage in the xylem Human-caused climate change is predicted to bring more frequent droughts and higher temperatures in the western United States, which threaten ecologically important trembling aspen forests. We used ...

Ring‐specific vulnerability to embolism reveals accumulation of damage in the xylem

New paper led by Diane Lu based on work with on hydraulics of Puerto Rican trees with @smithmartin.bsky.social

A Spatio-Temporal Model Of Embolism Propagation In Leaf Vein Networks

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Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

I am very happy to see our paper out! Plant responses to many stresses are mediated by the same processes and I have long wondered how this relates to hotter droughts.

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Leaf Excision and Exposure Duration Alter the Estimates of the Irreversible Photosynthetic Thermal Thresholds Our study highlights the importance of assessing thermal thresholds using consistent exposure duration and plant material type when comparing studies, as well as their relationship to functional re...

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🌿How you measure heat tolerance matters! We tested 3 species under different methods & durations to find their thermal limits.
@a-gthy.bsky.social @kateplantphys.bsky.social @philippschuler.bsky.social

My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

@charlottegrossiord.bsky.social
@wslresearch.bsky.social

Please RT: 2 PhD position @uni-freiburg.de investigating #reccurent #drought in #forest using in-situ #stableisotopes in #ecohydrology

🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....

Water usage of old-growth oak at elevated CO2 in the FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) of climate change Abstract. Predicting how increased atmospheric CO2 levels will affect water usage by whole, mature trees remains a challenge. The present study investigates diurnal (i.e. daylight) water usage of oaks...

New results from the #BIFoR #FACE experiment. Old-growth oak trees show signs of reduced water usage under elevated CO2, but also strong interannual variability, whilst "ghost" trees use less water than those in other treatments. Full details here: doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
@sequick.bsky.social 🧪

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Kicking off this Bluesky action with this recently published paper on mangroves, with @a-gthy.bsky.social and @profchoat.bsky.social

Key findings:
🍃 Foliar water uptake supports water potential recovery
🌊 Tides do not affect xylem sap composition

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Fascinating organisms!

New PhD scholarship available to work with us at Western Sydney University.

Determining the functional diversity of stress tolerance in eucalypts

Link for online application below.

Please contact me by email if you are interested in applying

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Towards a global understanding of tree mortality Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global...

"Towards a global understanding of tree mortality" in @newphyt.bsky.social

It was fun and productive participating in this review by the International Tree Mortality Network nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾

The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits - Zeqing Ma, Thomas N. Buckley, Lawren Sack - New Phytologist @tombuckleylab.bsky.social

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