Juan Piñeiro

Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities Maintaining ecological stability is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and the benefits they provide to society. Ecological theory predicts that plant diversity destabilizes local populati...

A new paper publised in New Phytologist led by Xiaobin Pan "Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities"
dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limite...

Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐

Mineral nitrogen form preference, partitioning and root morphological traits of Douglas fir and European beech under intra—and interspecific competition in-situ - European Journal of Forest Research Climate change challenges forestry in temperate regions, with drought and insect infestations affecting major tree species. Introducing drought-tolerant non-native species into managed forests is a wi...

New nutrients&roots paper out! 🌳🌲🧪

Douglas fir and beech saplings partition ammonium vs. nitrate under competition, enabling complementary N use and their coexistence in mixed stands.
@mrakklara.bsky.social @bmwildermuth.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#forestecol

A tundra fire experiment in West Greenland.

Effects of warming on plant uptake of post‐fire nitrogen in an arctic heath tundra

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu and Amus

#PlantScience

Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation We investigated how plant diversity influenced soil microbial processes during moist conditions and an experimental drought. Higher plant diversity increased below-ground plant input. This increased ...

Plant diversity increases microbial resistance to drought and soil carbon accumulation - Winterfeldt - 2026 - Journal of Ecology #stableisotopes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?"

This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have!

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

New in Geoderma: "Methods matter: examining the apparent saturation of soil mineral-associated organic carbon" by Ryan E Champiny, Katerina Georgiou & Yang Lin. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
@UF @OregonState

Rising atmospheric CO2 reduces nitrogen availability in boreal forests - Nature Nitrogen isotope tree-ring chronologies show that rising atmospheric CO2 has reduced nitrogen availability in boreal forests in Sweden, suggesting that elevated atmospheric CO2 is causing oligotrophic...

I am really excited to share our new paper, published today in Nature. We show that rising atmospheric CO2 is linked to decling nutrient availability in boreal forest, with implications for the future carbon sink. Kudos to lead author @kelleyrbassett.bsky.social.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can randomness drive the evolution of microbiomes? In this paper, a new eco-evolutionary framework shows that environmental fluctuations can trigger host-level selection. Stochastic assembly isn’t noise: it’s the key.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @andreatabi.bsky.social @vmaull.bsky.social

Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source Drought turned the biogeographic Amazon in 2023 to a weak carbon source, with a magnitude similar to the drought of 2015 but less than 2016 Seasonal development of net carbon exchange in 2023 was...

In 2023, the Amazon basin experienced unusually high temperatures and atmospheric dryness 🌡️ How this this affect the Amazon carbon sink?
Excellent work led by Santiago Botía @bgc-jena.mpg.de
@erc.europa.eu @esaclimate.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Learn more:
tinyurl.com/botiaagu2026

The project will be co-supervised by Maire Holz and myself @zalf.bsky.social as part of @bexplo.bsky.social.

You will spend time in the greenhouse and the lab as well as in data synthesis and conceptual thinking.

jobs.zalf.de/jobposting/a...

Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution Microbial carbon use efficiency is a strong predictor of soil organic carbon stocks. Here the authors reveal that the microbial growth rate is a more reliable and informative predictor, and that model...

Folks interested in soil carbon and microbes, you may want to check these two papers recently published in @natecoevo.nature.com: Xianjin He et al., Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency... (1/4) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leaf litter and fine roots have distinct effects on particulate and mineral‐associated soil organic matter in a tree common garden Soil organic matter (SOM) is primarily derived from leaf and root inputs, but the relative contributions of each are difficult to study without the use of isotopic tracers. Furthermore, associations.....

Leaf litter and fine roots have distinct effects on particulate and mineral‐associated soil organic matter in a tree common garden - Lang - 2026 - New Phytologist #stableisotopes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

From death comes diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution A high-throughput laboratory experiment tracking the assembly of soil-derived communities shows that species-rich bacterial necromass supports increasingly diverse communities, with each additional de...

From death comes diversity! 🦠🧪🌐🌏

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

Plant–plant nitrogen transfer is prevalent in a semi‐arid shrubland and affects the foliar N content of recipient plants Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Plant–plant nitrogen transfer is prevalent in a semi‐arid shrubland and affects the foliar N content of recipient plants - González‐Díaz - 2026 - Functional Ecology #stableisotopes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tree species coverage in the Global Wood Density Database v.2.

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

Fischer et al.

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

A general framework for nitrogen deposition effects on soil respiration in global forests - Nature Communications Using synthesized experimental and observational data, Cen et al. revealed that anthropogenic nitrogen deposition has increased global forest soil CO2 emissions by ~5%, despite considerable spatial va...

A general framework for nitrogen deposition effects on soil respiration in global forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵

Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils Resource-dependent microbial adaptability decouples microbial growth from respiration and limits soil carbon storage.

Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Becomes Conservative and Resilient to Long‐Term Warming in High‐Latitude Carbon‐Limited Soils

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@zeven23.bsky.social

🌿Stepwise shifts in root P-acquisition strategy reveal the adaptive strategies adopted by plants when soil P becomes increasingly limiting, reflecting the profound effects of N inputs on plant allocation of belowground carbon resources
🔍 Read: buff.ly/6bntI3d

🌡️ Just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social!
Our new paper led by @zeven23.bsky.social shows that long-term warming doesn’t just speed up soil nitrogen cycling — it re-wires microbial strategies in cold soils. 📉🌱

🧵Here’s what we found — and why it matters:👇

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

New in Geoderma: "Soil moisture measurements by Cosmic-Ray neutron sensing: A critical review" by Markus Köhli.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
@HeidelbergU

If you want to learn more about how tree nutrient uptake🌳mediated by ectomycorrhizal fungi🍄 could be compromised under increasing drought💧🌡️, take a look at our paper
@Oikos_Journal here
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@smatesanz.bsky.social

GitHub - bpbond/srdb: Global soil respiration database Global soil respiration database. Contribute to bpbond/srdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

End-of-year data update to the SRBD (global soil respiration database) github.com/bpbond/srdb

#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019.

peerj.com/articles/203...

We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃

Eco‐Evolutionary Optimality in Soil Organic Matter Models Optimization approaches based on fundamental eco-evolutionary principles (EEO approaches) can increase the realism and generality of microbial-explicit soil organic matter (SOM) models—yet, these app....

A great (pre-)christmas gift: our synthesis paper in Ecology Letters just got published! 😊
Thanks, @elsa-abs.bsky.social, @arjunchakrawal.bsky.social, @lucianachr.bsky.social, Pierre Quévreux, and @manzonilab.bsky.social for the great collaboration!!

Open access article: doi.org/10.1111/ele.70278

Microbial mechanisms underlying the reduction of soil mineral nitrogen availability by ectomycorrhizal tree introduction in cedar plantations - Plant and Soil Background and aims Forest mycorrhizal type and soil acidity strongly influence soil nitrogen (N) availability. Arbuscular mycorrhizal pure cedar plantations are expected to exhibit higher soil minera...

Our paper is out in Plant and Soil!🎉 Microbial mechanisms underlying the reduction of soil mineral nitrogen availability by ectomycorrhizal tree introduction in cedar plantations🌲🌳Many thanks Sawada-san for leading this great work!!
link.springer.com/10.1007/s111...

Conservation agriculture raises crop nitrogen acquisition by amplifying plant-microbe synergy under climate warming - Nature Communications Sustainable food production under climate change requires farming practices that support plant–soil–microbe interactions. This study suggests that conservation agriculture with warming enhances wheat ...

Hao, C., Dungait, J.A.J., Shang, W. et al. Conservation agriculture raises crop nitrogen acquisition by amplifying plant-microbe synergy under climate warming. #stableisotopes Nat Commun 16, 11067 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...