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Boscos, sabanes i matollars es tornen més complexos i responen de manera més imprevisible al canvi global
October 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Forests, savannas and scrublands are becoming more complex and responding more unpredictably to global change
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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🌱 Shrub planting in drylands boosts soil microbes & carbon storage 🌾💨
💪 A nature-based way to fight desertification & improve land health 🌍✨
Mengfei Cong @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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📡 Scientists developed MIPA a new way to measure atmosph's boundary layer height using lidar data
By turning readings into 2D images, it tracks atmosph changes more accurately across sensors & wavelengths
Yiming Qu @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat
📖https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/16/2758
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New study shows inland waters worldwide are flooded with microplastics — especially in Asia, Europe & the US. Urgent action needed. 🌍💧 #Microplastics #pollutionfreepunjab
Xia Jin @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
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May 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Short press release based on the paper led by Yang Song: Recent Water Constraints Mediate the Dominance of Climate and Atmospheric CO2 on Vegetation Growth Across China
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May 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🌿 Plants have their own elemental “fingerprints”—in both leaves and roots! A global study shows these biogeochemical patterns are deeply rooted in evolution. #PlantScience #Ecology
Chao Wang @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
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Coordinated variations in leaf and root biogeochemical niches
The biogeochemical niche (BN) hypothesis posits that each species has a specific elemental composition. However, the BN of roots and its interaction with leaf BN have largely been neglected until no...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🌍 Nitrogen boosts plant growth—but only when soil pH is right! 🧪 This global study shows Mg and Ca are the hidden keys to unlocking biomass gains. #SoilScience #PlantGrowth #NewPhytologist
Chonghua Xu @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
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Soil pH‐dependent nitrogen stimulation of plant biomass: magnesium and calcium as key constraints
Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition can alleviate N limitation and stimulate plant growth in many terrestrial ecosystems. While theoretical models often emphasize phosphorus limitations as a const.....
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April 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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In this new paper authors assess the effect of thinning on tree mortality, the ultimate indicator of tree resistance to soil water deficit induced by drought, with a focus on dominant trees.

Julius Willig @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec

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No increased drought-related mortality after thinning: a meta-analysis - Annals of Forest Science
Context Forest scientists are challenged to identify and propose evidence-based silvicultural options to mitigate the impacts of drought events induced by climate change. For example, it has been sugg...
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February 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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This new study provides a global roadmap for achieving energy systems with net-zero CO2 emissions. Authors present here a stratetegy to minimize the levelized cost of electricity. Don't miss it!

Yijing Wang @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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Global spatiotemporal optimization of photovoltaic and wind power to achieve the Paris Agreement targets
Nature Communications - This study present a strategy involving construction of 22,821 photovoltaic, onshore-wind, and offshore-wind plants in 192 countries worldwide under cost minimization,...
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March 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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New publication from the EDMLab by Zhenhong Hu et al.,

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Global Change Impacts on Forest Elementomes and Insights for Improved Management Practices

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Global Change Impacts on Forest Elementomes and Insights for Improved Management Practices - Current Climate Change Reports
Purpose of Review The elemental composition of organisms (the elementome) strongly determines their functional traits and their functioning. Global change presents significant potential impacts on for...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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This new paper highlights the importance of 💧 across soil depths as key driver of plant growth and dominance in grasslands under N addition
Fu-Qiang Huang @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat

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Plant use of water across soil depths regulates species dominance under nitrogen addition
The primary mechanism driving plant species loss after nitrogen (N) addition has been often hypothesized to be asymmetric competition for light, resul…
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March 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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To start the week, reading suggestion: this new paper studies the effects of altered precipitation regimes on litter decomposition across humid and arid biomes.
Qiqian Wu @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec

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February 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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New study investigates soil C cycling driven by local environ gradients into mangroves in diff climatic zones According to it sea level rise may cause great impact on mangrove SOC
More information at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Xiaolei Yin @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
Intertidal zonation of mangrove organic carbon fractions driven by vegetation biomass and soil nutrient levels
High net primary production and low soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition rates ensure that mangroves are important carbon sink likely to be disturb…
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February 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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In this new paper, authors tested the the biogeochemical niche (BN) hypothesis in different organs from plants. Their results indicate different differents patterns in leaves and roots.
Chao Wang @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec

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Coordinated variation in elemental composition and morphology in leaves, but independence in roots across Chinese grasslands
The authors found the broad applicability of biogeochemical niche hypothesis and the relationship between biogeochemical niche and morphological niche in different plant organs at a continental scale...
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February 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Interisting study where authors compared model predictions using either local or database-derived trait values, across different levels of spp richness and between different taxonomic levels.
Jelyn Gerkema @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
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Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly
An in-depth understanding of local plant community assembly is critical to direct conservation efforts to promising areas and increase the efficiency …
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February 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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In this new paper authors helps us clarify driving mechanisms of SOC accumulation in arid mountain ecosystems. Good reading for a rainy weekend.
Guangxing Zhao @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec
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Soil minerals regulate soil organic carbon accumulation through glomalin-related soil protein along an elevation gradient in a mountain arid ecosystem
Soil minerals and glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), as key soil binding agents, play a crucial role in enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequest…
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February 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Last few days to apply for this 4-year PhD contract at @creaf.cat with @jpreixach.bsky.social and myself about

Nonlinear dynamics of biogeochemical cycles

Apply here: creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

Deadline 7th February 2025.

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February 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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In this new paper authors explains how afforestation affects soil aggregate stability, soil microbial biomass, and soil enzyme activities...don't miss it!
Guangxing Zhao, Josep Penuelas , @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
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January 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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In this paper @joseppenuelas proposes the IME (information, mass, energy) theory, that integrates the 5 laws of life by determining the relationships among information, mass and energy through time and after disturbances ✍️
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The way we are, function and change: The information, mass and energy theory
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January 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM