🎉 New paper out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening!
We show how urban green space types & land-use history shape soil health in Gießen/Germany.
🌿 Woody stands & meadows > lawns 🌱
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#urbanecosystems #urbansoil #LULC
New study led by Vanessa Lozano on "Ecological niche dynamics across continents for aquatic plants native to South America and invasive aliens elsewhere" #biologicalinvasions #southamerica 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Two fully funded PhD positions in land use research at SDGnexus Network! Focus on agricultural transitions, land-water nexus, remote sensing & modeling. Apply by Aug 20, 2025 👉 tinyurl.com/5d97fe3j
#PhD #LandUse #RemoteSensing #EnvironmentalScience
Root washing (Photo: Marcel Dogotari).
Leave scanning (Photo: Marcel Dogotari).
Azmi Sheriff working on the root analyses (Photo: Marcel Dogotari).
Investigated plant in the greenhouse at ZALF (Photo: Azmi Sheriff).
SP4's greenhouse experiment at @zalf.bsky.social wrapped! 🌿 Studying root, leaf & hyperspectral traits across crops, phytometers & arable weeds - grown with or without mycorrhiza. Now analyzing individual plants and their leaves and roots to uncover trait variation. #formula #agroforestry
FORMULA kick-off at Gladbacherhof (Photo: Marcel Dogotari).
FORMULA kick-off at IFZ (Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition) of JLU (Photo: Umut Kirdemir).
We’ve officially kicked off FORMULA with our first big in-person meeting at Gladbacherhof and @jlugiessen.bsky.social! A productive start with engaging discussions, clear goals, and great collaboration across teams. Looking forward to what’s ahead! #agroforestry #formula
🎉 New research alert! 🌿
We celebrate now that another chapter of Lara's thesis is now out in Weed Research!
Here we investigated the impacts of Senecio inaequidens in N Italy by a field observation and using EICAT. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Five review requests in ~48 hours might be a new record for me. I know I'm far from the first/only to think this, but the peer review system just feels increasingly unsustainable lately.
This is not good....
UK on track for driest spring on record with no rain in sight
Source: BBC
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JOB ALERT: As part of this project, the Professorship of Soil Resources at the @jlugiessen.bsky.social (Prof. Dr. Jan Siemens) is searching for a doctoral student in the field of nutrient cycling in soils of agroforestry systems!
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Top: Agroforestry site at Gladbacher Hof (Photo: Till Schürmann/JLU) Bottom: Agroforestry site in Großmutz (Photo: Marco Donat/ZALF)
Welcome to the Official Bluesky Channel for the project FORMULA! Join us, a collaborative DFG-funded team from @jlugiessen.bsky.social and @zalf.bsky.social, exploring agroforestry systems and their Nature's Contributions to People (NCP). Follow for updates on research, team insights, and events!
🧪New study on Ailanthus altissima invasion using #Sentinel-2 & #Sentinel-3 data led by Flavio Marzialletti!
📡 #Remotesensing reveals that invaded areas show:
🌱 Higher productivity & canopy biomass
💧 More leaf water content (even in summer drought!)
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc8xwnb7
#biologicalinvasions
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📧 Applications are due January 31, 2025, with the reference code SDGNN/PhDCall. For full details, visit www.sdgnexus.net or contact frleivab@unal.edu.co.
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These roles focus on Land Use Change and/or Integrated River Basin Management in Colombia’s Orinoquía region, starting March 1, 2025.
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🎓 Ph.D. Opportunities in the field of Sustainable Development Goal Interactions
I’m excited to share that the Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia is seeking applicants for three Ph.D. Research Assistant positions within the SDGnexus Network.
🌱 Acacia invasion in coastal dunes harms ecosystem functions.
🛰️ We used airborne hyperspectral + LiDAR data to map impacts.
📉 Functional diversity decreases, spatial effects matter!
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#InvasiveSpecies #RemoteSensing #Biodiversity #LiDAR #Hyperspectral
