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Call for a 2-year research position in Bologna! Deadline: Jan 8th 2024

Double great news: We had two papers published in the last month! One is the relationship between traits and drought resistance (ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t) and the other on the digitization a vegetation dataset from Patagonia (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…).

@UniboBiome @CONICETDialoga You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13… =)

In the 1970s, a pioneer team of Argentinian, Chilean and UK biogeographers studied the vegetation of Patagonia along a 450 km transect. Now the data are available #OA and published in @JVSAVS, thanks to a collaboration with @sPlot_iDiv @CONICETDialoga onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jv…

Beautiful use of the @sPlot_iDiv vegetation database ⬇️ Vulnerability to embolism #P50 & root length in woody plants are independent or othogonal traits selected by aridity, seasonality & water table depth 🚨 Just published @NewPhyt 🤩 📖 ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t

Do you already know the open version of sPlot, sPlotOpen? If not, this is a good opportunity to check it out! We have released an updated version correcting some mismatches in species occurrences. You can access the version 2.0 of this open dataset at doi.org/10.25829/idiv.…

Nice to see Thore Engel’s paper published! It used the @sPlot_iDiv global vegetation plot data base and started during⁦⁩ Thore’s MSc at the Graduate Program in Ecology, UFRGS, Porto Alegre. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

📢📢 New sPlot paper published! ⭐️⭐️ @ThoreEngel led this great study in which the prevalence of traits from dominant species drives ecosystem function in grasslands worldwide. Check it at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@Javier_Lopatin Thank you for pointing out, @Javier_Lopatin. It is a world I will use with more parsimonia in the future.

Interesting study on trait-environment relationships at a large scale. Although, I wouldn't say that Europe corresponds to a Global scale

@KambachStephan This is a new large-extent study with a number of co-authors contributing to the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and @sPlot_iDiv.

Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale. @KambachStephan shows why: The relationship is habitat specific 🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s4146…

Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale. @KambachStephan shows why: The relationship is habitat specific 🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s4146… @sPlot_iDiv

I am excited to share our new @NatureEcoEvo paper that uses @inaturalist citizen science observations to map plant functional traits on a global scale! 🔗nature.com/articles/s4155… #iNatTraitMaps #CitizenScience #firstpaper @Rsc4Earth @UniLeipzig @NFDI4BioDiv @idiv 🧵1/8

I am very happy for @so_phiewolf! Her first PhD paper was just published @NatureEcoEvo where she combined @inaturalist #CitizenScience data and @TryPlantTraitDB to generate global maps of #planttraits and compared them to @sPlot_iDiv nature.com/articles/s4155… 🧵1/7

There is a #paradox in #biodiversity conservation: species disappear regionally, but local species richness is stable @HelgeBruelheide @idiv @UniHalle and colleagues tackle this problem for Germany. Hot of the press: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@MartinezPastur @rikimore7 Dear Guillermo, I tried to contact you at your email at conicet.gov.ar but the message bounced back. Is there any other email address I can write you?

@MartinezPastur @rikimore7 Great! Can I have your e-mail for further contact to discuss your contribution? Thank you.

👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬CALL FOR COLLABORATION👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬 We are looking for Global South researchers who have vegetation (plot level) data! 🌍 Join sPlot and become part of a global network of scientists unraveling patterns in plant biodiversity! 🌼🌴🌿☀️🌦️🌱☘️🌾 Contribution deadline: end of October

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Research Officer (m/f/d) for the project "MultiTroph Data management" (Z2), @GeobotanyHalle, @UniHalle | Halle (Saale), Germany | Closing date: 15 October 2022 verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Aussch…

@nehamohanbabu Thank you Neha, I'll write you next week with more information!

@Ricard_Arasa Dear Ricard, thank you! I guess I just replied to your e-mail today, right?

@sPlot_iDiv Hi, I have information of tree saplings belonging to 60 tropical rainforest patches from 3 regions of southeast Mexico. Each forest patch was sampled through 25 sampling plots. We registered 24,000 individuals and 415 species. I would like more info, thanks: rarasa@cieco.unam.mx

@amjadqau2009 Hi Amjad, thank you! I'll contact you next week with more information. Have a nice weekend.

@sPlot_iDiv I am interested to contribute plot level data from Western Himalayas foothills of Pakistan (herbs shrubs and trees data). I will be waiting; amjadqau2009@gmail.com