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 ( https://t.co/IlTAWDiEyz) and the other on the digitization a vegetation dataset from Patagonia ( https://t.co/ld3c1pTo0P).

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

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 🤩 📖 https://t.co/8Ay3OXTHMv

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

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.

📢📢 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

@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🔥 https://t.co/LRATiJ7G4D

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🔥 https://t.co/RIjgHi7prI @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! 🔗 https://t.co/6Zx5eY09Bl #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 https://t.co/YvB1SLf6LB 🧵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: https://t.co/KmIebDrS1U

‼️JOB ALERT‼️ Research Officer (m/f/d) for the project "MultiTroph Data management" (Z2), @GeobotanyHalle, @UniHalle | Halle (Saale), Germany | Closing date: 15 October 2022 https://t.co/vj463O4Ev0

👩🏾‍🔬👨‍🔬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

A new study incl. authors from @IBOTCZ shows that the Eastern European forest-steppe region is home to a similar number of plant species as the Amazon rainforest, which only becomes apparent when species are counted in smaller sampling areas. https://t.co/4Ons6Ecm73 @NatureComms

On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar [full speech: https://t.co/CLrxMp45kn] https://t.co/BIMps9e0ZY

Here is a comment about our @sPlot_iDiv paper with Francesco Sabatini: Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer? https://t.co/XtTBWDk1VD #behindthepaper

Research published in @NatureComms presents global maps of local species richness for vascular plants in order to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. https://t.co/6lu9PeOzF7

In a post "linking to elsewhere", Francesco Maria Sabatini and colleagues describe a story behind their recent paper in Nature Communications: Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity