Dario Martin-Benito

A kind of nurture vs nature for trees study. Kinda academic.oup.com/treephys/adv...

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z... Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.

New book on the plant‘s phloem - and here is my chapter on phloem isotope measurements: link.springer.com/protocol/10.10…

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell, 1984

A huge old Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree) in Killarney National Park, its roots growing straight out over limestone bedrock. In the background, an equally majestic ancient yew. No other place in Ireland comes even close to rivalling Killarney for wild native trees.

Postdoc fellowship in Phenotypic Plasticity & Selection Analysis // University of Basel jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... The University of Basel is looking for a postdoc to lead the analyses and publishing of data collected in a context of plant responses to heat and drought #BotanyJobs

New PhD opportunity with Bernd Berauer and myself within the @greenrobust.de cluster @unihohenheim.bsky.social ! 3-yr funded position to measure and model gas exchange at leaf, plant, and canopy scale. Applications can be submitted until *September 15*, at: jobs.uni-hohenheim.de/jobposting/2...

🌿 #PostDocAlert! PhD in #PlantEcophysiology or #ForestEcology? Expertise in #PlantWaterRelations, #ThermalImaging, or #Spectroscopy? Our Research Unit Forest and Soil Ecology is offering a #PostDoc position in plant ecophysiology: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/... #Sciencejobs 🌿

The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam is seeking applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position! See the full solicitation on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/po...

This is very interesting. A way to work around AI crawlers, if you want to. shieldfont.org

Based on our recent article, we wrote a policy brief: How can we conserve primary and old-growth forests through the EU Nature Restoration Regulation? EFI Policy Brief 21. European Forest Institute. doi.org/10.36333/pb21

I'm hiring a new PDRA for my group in Cambridge. Do you like trees, lasers and ecology? Interested in helping us to use 3D data to better understand the relationship between forest structure and tree species diversity across biomes? 🌳🛰️⚡🌳 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/56666/

"Where undergrads grow into scientists" A lovely article highlighting our amazing @harvardforest.bsky.social REU students. Being a mentor in this program is truly one of the highlights of my career, and something I look forward to every summer! current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/wher...

Trees don’t always shift upslope with increasing temperature. Those that are more climate sensitive do but other species are moving downslope. Hydraulic traits can help determine which direction species will shift. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re hiring a PhD researcher to study biodiversity change and species extinction in Africa, combining quantitative ecology with critical data studies. Work with me and anthropologist Sandra Calkins. Apply by 7 Sept: www.uni-bayreuth.de/job-vacancy-...

This is an important point. While some hard limits (cannot be overcome by any means) to adaptation might be identified through biophysical research, identifying most hard limits and all soft limits (we hit because we choose not to do things that are needed) requires actually trying to adapt.

Widespread carbon accumulation in mature forests remains underestimated by satellite observations "Satellite estimates indicate near-neutral biomass changes over recent decades, whereas forest inventories estimate an increase of 102 TgC yr−1" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Spain declared a national emergency, the first time the country has ever done so over a wildfire. France’s evacuations constituted “probably” the biggest peacetime evacuation the country has ever seen, its interior minister said.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Los BRIF de @miteco.gob.es de Iglesuela, Puerto el Pico Y Pinofranqueado están trabajando intensamente en Casavieja, Piedralaves y Navahondilla, defendiendo poblaciones frente al #IFBurgohondo en #Ávila. Mi reconocimiento a su profesionalidad y entrega, siempre en primera línea. Imágenes de AT BRIF

Con estas temperaturas y olas de calor que estamos viviendo actualmente, casi cualquier tipo de vegetación puede arder. El verano pasado vimos incendios incluso bosques de hayas (Fagus sylvatica): jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2026/06/30/f...

Eastern Old-Growth Forests Are More Than Old Trees I'll be talking about eastern US Old-Growth Forests in Greenwich, CT on Thursday, August 6th and leading a forest walk the next morning, Friday, August 7th. You can register here: greenwichtreeconservancy.org/upcoming-eve...

Fantastic postdoc fellowship opportunity: UCAR's Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now seeking applications "from across the full breadth of disciplines contributing to Climate and Global Change Science." Find a US-based mentor and apply! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r...

NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026

💻🌳 #OpenPosition! PhD in #Ecology or a related field? Strong skills in #Macroecology, #StatisticalEcology and #Coding with R/Python/GIT? Our Dynamic Macroecology group is offering a position for a scientist in ecological modelling and analysis: apply.refline.ch/273855/1878/... #ScienceJobs 💻🌳

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

On the relationship between root economics and plant hydraulic traits Sanaei et al. @anvarsanaei.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌊 ¿Qué nos revelan los ecosistemas marinos sobre el cambio global? 🌎 Acompáñanos en el próximo webinar de #ConcienciaEnLasAméricas! 🗓 15 julio 2026 | 12 PM ET 💬 Más info y Youtube link: forms.gle/nw82G1cF88Y8... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #LatinasInSTEM

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Researchers compared “simulations of the Community Land Model (CLM) to a statistical model built on dendrometer observations, showing that CLM underestimates decreases to growth under elevated VPD by a factor of 2–3” agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New publication led by Postdoc Thomas Muratore on a long-term soil warming and N addition experiment @harvardforest.bsky.social together with an amazing group of collaborators and trainees (including @ncharisoil.bsky.social, Grady Welsh, Serita Frey, Benton Taylor and TWO REU students)

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Mechanisms and scales in modeling forest responses to changing disturbance regimes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Tomorrow marks the start of the major annual conference for tropical biologists and those of us based at Florida’s public universities can’t attend because doing so would violate state law. www.atbc2026.org

@geovegub.bsky.social is at #IAVS2026 this week with four talks and a poster on mire, snowbed and tundra vegetation!🌱🌾🪻🏔️ (1/4)

🚀 Nueva app: temperaturas diarias en España 🇪🇸🌡️ Estoy encantado de compartir mi última app: 👉 bioclim-mbg.shinyapps.io/spain-daily-... Permite explorar de forma interactiva las temperaturas diarias en España. #dataviz #clima #oladecalor

New paper on sampling for vessel traits in wood anatomical studies! A short 🧵... Wood anatomical traits can provide great info on ecophysiology, ecology, and evolution but it takes a lot of painstaking work to quantify them! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... @juliavtavares.bsky.social

📰Published📰Wood anatomical trait correlations with hydraulic efficiency and safety in an a seasonal wet tropical forest🌳 buff.ly/FF5YuqR 🧪🌍️

Now in summer, we can confirm that a large part of the beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests that burned in low‑intensity understory fires have died. This constitutes a clear case of a low‑intensity, high‑severity fire (I had expected bsky.app/profile/jgpa...) 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴 wildfires Picos de Europa, N Spain

I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

No doubt these times have broadly, though not completely, sped up the ecology of ecosystem processes. A result like this, I suspect, if conducted in prior centuries, might be expected in a kind of pulsed or episodic dynamic. Global change, in a way, makes this somewhat moot, though if synced…🤯

We are living in the Hellocene

We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱