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jcsvenning.bsky.social
Functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities are decoupled - check our new study just out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🍃🍀🌸🍁🍂🌴🌳🌸🌼🪻#plants #vegetation #ecology #plantecology #communityassembly
jonlen.bsky.social Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Dec 3
🌳 New findings 🌳

Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️

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@natureecoevo.bsky.social
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Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the worl...
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December 6, 2024 at 5:45 AM
gianmariabonari.bsky.social
New paper published in Functional Ecology!

We investigated plant community assembly on inland limestone cliffs across Alpine, Continental, and Mediterranean Europe.

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#FunctionalEcology #CommunityAssembly #FunctionalTraits #Biodiversity #CliffEcology #VegetationScience
September 25, 2026 at 1:49 PM
nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social
Almost a 1000's followers in one week! that's crazy.

As we are all new here, maybe its time to present some of our research highligts of the recent years.

All is about #FunctionalTraits; #PlantDiversity; #CommunityAssembly; #EcosystemMultifunctionality ' 🧮➕📏 '

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November 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM
nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social
Nathan Rondeau successfully defended his PhD Yesterday on trait dynamics assembly. Exciting works to be published soon !!! Congrats Nathan #inrae #urep #traits #diversity #communityAssembly
December 19, 2024 at 7:06 AM
chriscatano.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper in Ecology Letters w @lars-brudvig.bsky.social, the culmination of more than a half decade of great fun and research from a landscape-scale experiment in tallgrass prairies! #CommunityAssembly, #PlantDiversity, #RestorationEcology, #Scale, #Prediction
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales
This experiment quantifies how species pool size and immigration influence plant community assembly in restored grasslands. Our findings reveal that greater immigration (seed arrival) and smaller spe...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
gsiexeter.bsky.social
This assembly is a collaboration with @exeterassembly.bsky.social and @laurielaybourn.bsky.social.

#GSIExeter #ClimateAction #Community #CommunityAssembly
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
oikosjournal.bsky.social
Contrasting and altitude-specific temporal trends in functional, phylogenetic, and species diversity in Austrian butterfly communities

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11108

#Biodiversity #ClimateChange #CommunityAssembly #FunctionalTraits #Multifunctionality #RelativeAbundance
February 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
oikosjournal.bsky.social
Inferring community assembly processes from mangrove species–area relationships

https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11095

#MangroveTrees #CommunityAssembly #SpeciesAreaRelationships #NicheAssembly #DispersalAssembly
April 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Long-term warming and nitrogen addition drive interface-specific bacterial assembly and enhance #Soil_leafMicrobialConnectivity

#GlobalChange | #PhylogeneticDiversity | #CommunityAssembly | #PhyllosphereBacteria

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
April 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Structure and assembly mechanism of soil bacterial community during forest restoration process in tropical regions

#ForestRestoration | #BacterialDiversity | #CommunityAssembly | #NetworkComplexity

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
oikosjournal.bsky.social
🌱🏙️Diversity and assembly of the microbiome of a leguminous plant along an urbanization gradient

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#Biodiversity #CommunityAssembly #LegumeRhizobia #Microbiome #PlantSoilInteractions #UrbanEcology

August 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
draliceclement.bsky.social
Check out our preprint comparing #Devonian #palaeoecology and #communityassembly to modern #ecosystems : "Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present" #GogoFormation #Miguasha
Available on biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:20 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
#PhylogeneticConservatism sustains stable associations across #Pinaceae genera (#Ectomycorrhiza), while environmental filtering drives species-specific community differentiation at local scales on the #Qinghai_TibetanPlateau.

#CommunityAssembly | #Phylogeny

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Geographic conservation patterns of three dominant ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal genera (Sebacina, Russula and Inocybe) associated with global Pinaceae hosts.
March 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
holdenrestoration.bsky.social
The field of #CommunityAssembly knows #PriorityEffects, but as we lose more and more species, how about the importance of species losses? Is it time for #InversePriorityEffects? ... Led by Agostina Torres.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
Long-term warming and nitrogen addition drive interface-specific bacterial assembly and enhance #soiltoleafmicrobialconnectivity.

#globalchange | #phylogeneticdiversity | #communityassembly | #phyllospherebacteria | #rhizospheresoilbacteria | #microbialsource

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
August 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
oikosjournal.bsky.social
🌳〰️Anisotropic community turn-over at habitat edges informs on assembly drivers: simulation and empirical test on soil macrofauna

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#Biodiversity #CommunityAssembly #HeterogeneousLandscape #MassiveDNABarcoding #Metacommunity #SoilMacrofauna

February 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
#Forestrestoration plays a crucial role in shaping soil bacterial communities. With the advancement of forest restoration, bacterial co-occurrence networks exhibit higher complexity and stability.

#Bacterialdiversity | #Communityassembly | #Networkcomplexity

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
August 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
albaanadon.bsky.social
#EulàliaPladevall-Izard presented a study on vegetation changes after several years of livestock exclusion in Pyrenean #fens. #AaronPérez-Haase presented a study on mire #communityassembly and functioning after a functional diversity and grazing disturbance experiment (2/4)
Livestock exclusion fence in the Pyrenees
June 25, 2026 at 9:19 AM
annakellner.bsky.social
Presenting at #BOUatEOU 🦉 My talk explores tawny owl breeding success in Kielder Forest. With 40 years of data + field experiments, we find that food availability wins but pine marten colonisation is an emerging predictor of failure in owls.
#predation #communityassembly #interactions
August 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
oikosjournal.bsky.social
🗾🌿Drivers of individual plant species contributions to β-diversity are scale-dependent

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#BetaDiversity #BioticHomogenisation #CommunityAssembly #FunctionalTraits #InvasionBiology #PhylogeneticDistance #SpatialScaling
Diagram with plant illustrations and fractal triangles emphasizing size and phylogenetic effects. Graph of species coefficient estimates with variables like SLA and Height, shown with dots and error bars in different colors.
August 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
#PlantInvasion drives stage-dependent shifts in soil protistan diversity and #CommunityAssembly in #EstuarineWetlands

#ProtistanFunctionalGroups | #SoilMicrobialDiversity

@dumack.bsky.social @mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Plant invasion drives stage-dependent shifts in soil protistan diversity and community assembly in estuarine wetlands
Based on amplicon sequencing data from a 20-year invasion chronosequence, this study reveals that Spartina alterniflora invasion significantly restructures
doi.org
April 2, 2026 at 3:44 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
Wen Zhao et al. elucidated the effects of wildfires on #SoilMicroorganisms in #Larixgmelinii forests.

#WildfireDisturbance | #Co_occurrenceNetwork | #CommunityAssembly

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Composition and differences of microorganisms. (a) The microbial composition at Genus level and functional composition. (b) Differentially expressed genes between burned and unburned forests. Orange and blue dots correspond to genera significantly enriched in the burned and unburned forests, respectively (log2 fold change ≥ 2. P < 0.05).
August 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
#ClimaticAndNon-climaticEffects on #SpeciesOccurrenceAndAbundance shift in different trends along #ElevationalGradients

#CommunityAssembly #JointSpeciesDistributionModel (JSDM)

@mapjournals.bsky.social ‪
pku1898.bsky.social‬doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...22
Climatic and non-climatic effects on species occurrence and abundance shift in different trends along elevational gradients
Abstract. The distribution and assembly of plant species is a fundamental ecological question. Understanding how various drivers of community assembly vary
doi.org
August 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
mapjournals.bsky.social
#Mycosphere
Phyllosphere fungal diversity across 21 Chinese forests reveals a U-shaped latitudinal pattern, with stochastic processes governing community assembly.
Details: https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/mycosphere-0026-0011
#PhyllosphereFungi #LatitudinalDiversity #CommunityAssembly
August 26, 2026 at 4:41 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
Biao Zhang et al. investigated #Distance_decay patterns and underlying assembly mechanisms for #AbundantAndRareFungalTaxa in Chinese northern grasslands.

#SpatialTurnover | #CommunityAssembly

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
The immigration rate (a), niche breadth (b) and the proportion of niche breadth (c) of entire, abundant and rare fungal taxa in the alpine grassland, temperate grassland and all sites.
July 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM