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#rudbeckiahirta and #rockymountaincolumbine don't always bloom together, but when they do...

#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
The deep yellow flowers of Black Eyed Susan (more specifically Rudbeckia Hirta) commingle with the purple and white flowers of the Rocky Mountain Columbine over a backdrop of green foliage and yellow emerging Rudbeckia buds.
February 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
susanagtapia.bsky.social
#PlantScience
#PlantConservation
#PlantTaxonomy
#EndemicPlants
#WildPlants
#MediterraneanFlora #LusitanicFlora

#Ecology #PlantEcology
#Habitats
#Vegetation
#PlantCommunities
#Biome
#Phytossociology #Landscape
#GIS #Mapping
February 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
iavs5.bsky.social
📢 #Postdoc opportunity in #FireEcology – Brazil!
Join the FAPESP project Biota Cerrado on Fire at UNESP Rio Claro. Study how fire shapes #plantcommunities & #savanna restoration
Stipened: R$12,570/mo | Supervisor: Dr. Alessandra Fidelis

Details - shorturl.at/Z1IB9
Apply- forms.gle/F5MkdM6CR4CZ...
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
forestryjfr.bsky.social
🌳 How green spaces restore your mind!
A JFR study finds coniferous, layered plant communities provide strong restorative benefits shaped by crown, trunk, color, and distance.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#JFR #ForestryResearch #UrbanGreenSpaces #MentalWellbeing #PlantCommunities 🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤
December 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
earlapricot.bsky.social
Really looking forward to seeing what this plant community does this year. It's heavily inspired by Roy Diblik's designs.

#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
The bright glowing purple spherical flowers and deep green foliage of Allium Summer Beauty (or possibly Allium Millennium) and some visiting bee friends take up the foreground. Sprays of tiny white flowers from Calamintha Nepeta ssp Nepeta line the sidewalk as a backdrop. The fluffy silver-green foliage of Artemisia Silver Mound buttresses the scene from the left. A few seed heads and some spikey foliage from a couple of Echinacea Pallida plants pop up from between the Artemisia and Calamintha. Some mulch can be seen between the Alliums and the other plants. I expect that to get fully filled in and covered over this year, mostly by the Artemisia.
March 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
jvs-avs.bsky.social
🏙️ Productivity and disturbance shape urban grasslands. Pouta et al. show that productive areas host taller, fast-growing plants, whereas frequently disturbed patches favor low-growing, stress-tolerant species 🌿📊.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#UrbanEcology #PlantCommunities
December 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
earlapricot.bsky.social
A whack of invasives never looked so good.

Spotted in Seattle, where those creeping Campanulas are not yet listed as noxious.

#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
White daisies dominate a very small garden bed, whose crowded blooms spill over into the sidewalk in the foreground and a couple of steps on the left, which lead to a weathered fence, which forms a backdrop for the whole scene. Purple bellflowers, pink foxgloves, and what I'd guess are orange poppies (not in full bloom) all emerge from the daisies to create a striking scene.
February 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
pocketwildingie.bsky.social
Recommended reading on whole thread as it summarised the findings of this study #PlantCommunities #GrasslandEcology
March 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: #FunctionalDiversity of #PlantCommunities Explains the Response of #Soil Microbes to Plant Invasion Along a Successional Gradient. #bacteria #fungi #planttraits
doi.org/10.1111/pce....
Figure 1 in Liu et al. (2026): "Sampling sites on La Réunion Island (a), with overview photographs of rainforest (b and c) and lava flow vegetation (d and e)."
May 22, 2026 at 12:25 PM
earlapricot.bsky.social
Whenever I read that a tree is an understory tree or a "woodland edge" tree, I picture this #cornuskousa ensconced in its massive blue spruce tree neighbor.

Spotted on a walk in a residential neighborhood of Seattle some years ago.

#bloomscrolling #plantcommunities
The lower portion of a massive blue spruce tree forms the backdrop for a variety of plantings. A Kousa Dogwood tree in flower takes up the middle layer of this sidewalk-facing front-yard display, along with what is probably a rose bush, flowering in pink, and a pink-purple rhododendron bush. Two sculpted bush conifers support the scene from the bottom, and finally a few lavender bushes and unspecified other greenery fills in from the bottom. Two houses peek through from behind the display, and one driveway cuts through the scene between the two sculpted bush conifers. If the dogwood tree were not in flower, you might mistake it to be just part of the blue spruce tree if you didn't look closely, it's so well cuddled by its neighbor.
February 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
milanchytry.bsky.social
👉 Want all the details? Read the full article here:
doi.org/10.1007/s109...

#Ecology 🌿 #Grasslands 🌾 #HistoricalLandUse 📜 #PlantCommunities 🌱 #LandscapeEcology 🌍 #EnvironmentalResearch 🔬 #Biodiversity 🌸 #HistoricalEcology 🕰️
@adamtclark.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social
Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands - Landscape Ecology
Context Historical land use is thought to have influenced plant community diversity, composition and function through the local persistence of taxa that reflect ecological conditions of the past. Obje...
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
stanfordjrbp.bsky.social
Day 55 of #JRBPVirtualTour! #Coyotebrush (#Baccharis #pilularis subsp. #consanguinea), found primarily in #coastal #chaparral. #Shrub in the #Asteraceae family. Known as a secondary #pioneerplant in #plantcommunities such as #coastalsagescrub and chaparral. Pics @alicegcummings
January 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
earlapricot.bsky.social
My plan to regrade the yard so that water will naturally pool near the birch trees we planted is working out swimmingly so far. This is just from snow melt. However I'm regretting planting Carex pensylvanica along the bottom of the regrade. I think they're probably drowning. #plantcommunities
Pooled water reflects the sky between one baby Sweet Birch tree, one adolescent Yellow Birch, and one adolescent River Birch tree. All three young trees are still wrapped and protected from winter and winter rabbits. There's a patch of snow in the foreground and two fences forming a corner in the background. A closer look at the water pooled right up to the base of the River Birch tree. You can see brown tufts of Carex pensylvanica unhappily also wading in this shallower area of the overall pool of water.
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New publication: The Bug-Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of #Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on #PlantCommunities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems. #biodiversity
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Figure 1 in Kempel et al. (2025): "(A) Location of the current 36 BugNet experimental sites worldwide, and in (B) Europe. (C) Whittaker biome plot of site locations, showing the mean annual temperature (°C) and mean annual precipitation (cm) for all experimental sites. Climate data are taken from CHELSA and represent the average over 1980–2010 (Karger et al. 2017). The Whittaker biome plot was plotted using the plotbiomes package in R (Stefan and Levin 2018)."
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
earlapricot.bsky.social
A nearby angle on the same section of the garden. This is what happens when you consider a pale coneflower as existing on another plane and don't reserve a lot of space for it on the ground floor. It's sharing the sun just fine with its cuddly Artemisia friend. 2/x

#plantcommunities #bloomscrolling
A pollinated pale coneflower rocket sits in the foreground with an Artemisia Silver Mound muffler engulfing the lower parts of its basal foliage. To the left you see Pink Grapefruit yarrow in bloom but on its way to going to seed. Along the back are sprays of white flowers from Calamintha Nepeta ssp Nepeta (these will turn blue before going to seed later) and a little pop of purple Summer Beauty Allium flowers. The Artemisia Silver Mound foliage forms a river from the foreground through the Calamintha in the back.
March 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
stanfordjrbp.bsky.social
#Plantcommunities can help you build the #naturalhistory of an area. For example the #willows in this picture did not exist many years ago. As #ecologicalsuccession occurs in the upstream area of Searsville reservoir, a #marsh is now developing with these willows. #ecology
January 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Contrasting responses of native and #AlienPlantSpecies to soil properties shed new light on the invasion of #DuneSystems

🔗Core:
the interplay between #SoilNutrients, soil salinity and #PlantFunctionalTraits

#PlantCommunities

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Location of the study area in the lagoon of Marano and Grado in the northern Adriatic Sea (a), the barrier islands and 10 sampling areas (b) and an example of 10 points distribution inside each sampling area (San Andrea island) (c). Effects of soil conductivity (a–c), organic carbon content in soil (d–f) and nitrogen content in soil (g–i) on standardized species cover (abundance) between status (native = solid line, alien = dashed line) and within habitats (vertical columns).
July 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
Chen Liang et al. studied the soil #CarbonStorage and its driving factors in different #PlantCommunities of #CoastalWetland in the non-growing season.

#BareFlat | #ResistanceIndexOfCarbon

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
The map of the study area showing sampling sites. Structural equation model was used to assess the effects of plant community and soil depth on (a) SOCD, (b) SICD, and (c) RIC.
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
Yu An et al. examined #SoilFunctions ( #SoilOrganicCarbon, #TotalNitrogen, #TotalPhosphorus), #PlantCommunities, and #FunctionalTraits in #Wetlands #NaturallyRestored after #AgriculturalAbandonment on China’s Sanjiang Plain.

#EcologicalFunctions

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doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
Yushu Zhang examined the influences of #TillageDisturbance and #NutrientEnrichment on #PlantCommunities, #SoilMicrobialCommunities, and #CarbonMineralization.

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
💡Soil #CarbonStorage and its driving factors in different #PlantCommunities of #CoastalWetland in the non-growing season

Communities:
1️⃣Spartina alterniflora
2️⃣Suaeda salsa
3️⃣Phragmites australis
4️⃣S. alterniflora–S. salsa

#BareFlat | #ResistanceIIndexOfCarbon

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
The map of the study area showing sampling sites.
October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
🔎Effects: #TillageDisturbance (D) & #NutrientEnrichment (NPKμ) ➡️ #PlantCommunities & #SoilMicrobialCommunities & #CarbonMineralization (CM)
(D + NPKμ = NPKμD)

Results:
1️⃣ Plant community biomass: NPKμD⬆️
2️⃣ Microbial network complexity: NPKμD⬆️, D⬇️
3️⃣ CM: NPKμD⬇️, D⬇️

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
September 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
#PlantRoots show flexible traits to changing precipitation, but the factors driving root trait covariation remain poorly understood. Yi-Heng Li et al. explored the precipitation-induced #SoilProperties and #PlantCommunities mediate #RootStrategies in the #ZoigeAlpineMeadow.
doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
The variation partitioning of soil properties and plant community characteristics on root traits in 0–10 cm (a) and 10–20 cm (b) soil layers.
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
The #RiverbanksCurvature affects #RiverbankEcosystems. Xiaohong Li et al. explored the ecological impacts of riverbank curvature on the structure and assembly process of #PlantCommunities in the riparian zone of the #YangtzeRiver, regulated by the #ThreeGorgesDam.
Details: doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...
Differences in community assembly on different riverbanks.
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
iavs5.bsky.social
🌿 JVS = core research on vegetation patterns, ecology & biodiversity.
#JournalOfVegetationScience #PlantCommunities
April 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM