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Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #STEMSTEAMDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Fantastic opportunities here in a wonderful group!
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🧟 Soil Fun Fact: Zombie carbon, or when the underground comes back to life!

Soil holds more carbon than all plants + the atmosphere, but when disturbed, some of it “rises from the dead” as CO₂!

🎃 Keep that #ZombieCarbon buried this #Halloween 🌱

#EGUSSS #SoilScience #CarbonCycle

Soil phosphate availability drives shifts between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi in the dual mycorrhizal plant Quercus serrata Dual mycorrhizal plants are associated with both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi that differ in cost and effectiveness for nutrient acquisition. Little is known about env.....

Soil phosphate availability drives the shifts in the mycorrhizal types in the dual mycorrhizal Quercus serrata.
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14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status Trees along an elevation gradient near the Alpine treeline used carbon fixed within the last two years to grow their needles and branches, and carbon fixed two to ten years ago to grow their fine roo....

New paper out led by Boaz Himan: 14C‐Age of Carbon Used to Grow Fine Roots Reflects Tree Carbon Status - Plant, Cell & Environment - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... presenting novel insights from a Swiss alpine treeline 🌲⛰️🌡️📈

Soil water limitation intensity alters nitrogen cycling at the plant-soil interface in Scots pine mesocosms - Plant and Soil Background and aim More intense episodes of drought are expected to affect terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycling by altering N transformation rates, the functioning of soil microorganisms, and plant N upta...

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With @martinhartmann.bsky.social and other great scientists not on bsky Grateful to the SAE group at ETH Zurich and the @snsf.ch which facilitated and funded this work.

Happy to see this paper published! We used a mesocosm platform to study how soil water limitation intensity alters the cycling of nitrogen at the tree-soil interface rdcu.be/eCB3L

Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests - Communications Earth & Environment A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

Excited to see this paper out! We used NEON data to explore the relationship between fine root and soil carbon stocks. With @sr-weino.bsky.social @katerinageorgiou.bsky.social @aaberhe.com @josephtumber.bsky.social @mingzhenlu.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s432...

🌈 Celebrating diversity at #iDiv! This week —and every week— iDiv affirms that diversity in all its forms strengthens science, community, and collaboration. 🧬

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Take note, Dutch government. Von der Leyen is right. We are nowhere without free, open, funded science.

The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!

It was a great opportunity to present at #EGU25.

Thanks to @loutsi.bsky.social, @plantsoilemily.bsky.social, Tessa Camenzind and the other co-conveners for organising such a nice session!

Thank you for your excellent contribution @heuckmeike.bsky.social

Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Highlighted event: Opening up about Mental Health across Career Stages in the Geosciences EGU 2025 is almost upon us! While a highlight of the year for many scientists, a big conference like this can also come with feelings of stress or anxiety for many. (If that’s you – you are not alone!...

Attending #EGU @egu.eu & care about mental health & diversity in academia? Join our Union Symposium Monday, 16:15–18:00 in Room E1. Co-organized with @polarocean.bsky.social @geocarolina.bsky.social Sabine Hörnig and Anita Di Chiara. Read more on @lucialayr.bsky.social blog post @egubg.bsky.social

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

New Paper Alert!@naturecomms.bsky.social
Thanks to the great team! @giannamars.bsky.social @scott-saleska.bsky.social @elbrodie.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social and many others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Talent in #science should have no gender, but the data speaks for itself. On #8M, our staircase reminds us that #equality is still a challenge. We climb steps toward a future where women scientists have the same opportunities. 💜👩‍🔬 #WomenInScience #IRNASA

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Join an #Ecotron project on soil #carbon sequestration @ecotron-cnrs.bsky.social

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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A travelling-wave strategy for plant-fungal trade. An image of a microscopic view of fungi. Nature logo.

Our newest research on plant-fungal trade published today in @nature.com.

The work, led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF combines robotics, mycology & biophysics to reveal underground supply-chain dynamics.

Open access:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I agree! Reading it now and I adore it

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
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fern growing on the forest floor

I have uptaken
the NO3-
that was in
the B horizon

and which
you were probably
saving
for spring

Forgive me
it was nutritious
so nitrogenous
and oxidized