In a new article in @SciReports I find that male PhD students are almost twice as likely than female PhD students to obtain a cum laude distinction for their dissertation. A cum laude is very rare, and only awarded to 5% of Dutch PhD students. 1/5 OA: nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚀#BiodiversityMonitoring Boost: 33 #Research Projects Funded We launched the #BiodivMon call in Sept 2022, seeking innovative 3-year projects for transnational biodiversity monitoring. After a meticulous evaluation, we're thrilled to announce the selection of 33 projects. 🧵1/3

Interesting PhD opportunity @BangorSNS @ENVISIONDTP: Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity envision-dtp.org/2023/biodivers… The application deadline is 10th January 2024

Understanding the #root #microbiome of #seagrasses can help #restoration. Glad to see the honours research by Anthony Randell @UniversitySA finally published. Andrew Oxley @Deakin led molecular and writing, Jason Tanner of SARDI @SA_PIRSA led logistics frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Si pensás que las crisis climática a discutir en Dubai y la crisis de la @naturaleza no son tu problema, mira aquí lo que dice la ciencia: theguardian.com/environment/20… @ipbeses @IAI_news @CONICETDialoga @carovera_ar @Luqui_Garibaldi

Novel light regimes in European forests rdcu.be/dsigH A new Perspective discusses how drought and other global change drivers will lead to altered light conditions at the forest floor, with consequences for below-canopy biodiversity and functions.

Isolating interactions from co-occurrences rdcu.be/dsier Co-occurrences can be proxies for interactions, but not all co-occurring species interact. A new study shows that super-generalist consumers realize more of their potential interactions in bipartite networks.

Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity: a comprehensive 6-dataset analysis of drivers of alpha, beta, gamma and phylogenetic diversity of fungi globally by Vladimir Mikryukov and co-workers. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just published in @NatureMicrobiol Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions. We show how three interrelated processes will change during and after climate extremes and affect microbiome stability #ClimateChange #Microbiology @unibern @OeschgerCentre… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

We can finally release the first version of SPECTRE: standardized global spatial data on terrestrial SPECies ThREats. 24 layers at 1km2 resolution now available for all the world. biodiversityresearch.org/spectre/dashbo… Work developed @luomus, @CE3CResearch, @lasige with support @KoneenSaatio. twitter.com/libre_research…

Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding We just published this paper in Nature Rev. Mater. (2023) today. doi.org/10.1038/s41578… An open access link is given under this link rdcu.be/dr6Pp

... Canopy disturbances are now increasing across European forests due to climate change...Novel light regimes in European forests nature.com/articles/s4155…

After years of anticipation, we're thrilled to present our bat book: ‘BAT ISLAND’, a tribute to our dear friend, Dr. Eli Kalko. geni.us/BatIsland

The final version of our new review on fungal diversity, distribution, and conservation, is now out. We made a revised prediction of 2-3 million species globally… 1/2 @KewMycology @KewScience #fungi #diversity annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.11…

An incredibly inspiring conservation work from Colombia! 🐊 SO great to see this after field courses and so many great times in the station during my bachelor! Que lindo proyecto <3 twitter.com/somoscomfauna/…

Ecological and metabolic implications of the nurse effect of Maihueniopsis camachoi in the Atacama Desert 🇨🇱 🏜 📖 ow.ly/EQCu50QahKe by Díaz et al. @T_Dussarrat, @Rodrigo_G_I, @PetriacqP, @IEBChile, @GeoPUCV, @ibiochile, @mileniocrg, @PCGuerrero #PlantScience

Maintenance of host specialisation gradients in ectomycorrhizal symbionts Voller et al. @SoilEcolUoM @DJSoilEcol 📖 ow.ly/HLZS50Q9UK8

GlobalFungi Release 5 is online! Our team and collaborators added 27788 samples (blue points on map) from 331 new papers. Especially the coverage of Africa increased greatly (+200%). Search for fungal genera, species or UNITE 9 species hypotheses at globalfungi.com

What happens to the soil microbiome when trees suffer from drought? Great work led by Astrid Jaeger ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @EmilySolly @Johansix6

I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @Nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).

Please share! Three-year postdoc in #plant #ecology & ecological #synthesis in the EDGE lab @goteborgsuni 🇸🇪 Love plants and data? Please apply! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Some of the species in tropical forests are hyperdominant, others hypercryptic. In this study we discovered that ca. dozen species were hidden behind only three previously recognised species.👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe…

By combining existing deep-learning, new graph methods and a scalable architecture, the pipeline developed in this study allows segmentation of individual tree point clouds from plot-level TLS point cloud data, regardless of tree or plot size. buff.ly/467tlO6

A mechanistic framework of enemy release now assigned to an issue @Ecology_Letters! Hopefully a better way to think about, test and synthesise work on the enemy release hypothesis, a foundation of invasion biology. Check it out if you missed it before ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fundamental but underrepresented: root carbon stocks in African montane forests frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Forest Science Week! Nov 28th & 29th: uni-goettingen.de/de/forest+scie…

We are looking for PhD Research Fellow in Ecosystem Services, to measure and understand patterns of ecosystem service demand across Norwegian society. Deadline soon: 1st December. Details here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Please RT and disseminate far and wide!

Did you know that Colombia has over 246 species of parasitic flowering plants? Also, 69 of them are endemic to the country! You can learn more about it in our most recent review doi.org/10.1007/s12229… . This is a collaboration with Favio Gonzalez @ICNUNAL @UNALOficial 🤓🌱

A paper in @ScientificData presents updated Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps, which estimate that from 1901–1930 to 1991–2020, approximately 5% of the global land surface (excluding Antarctica) transitioned to a different class. go.nature.com/3tVlYfm