ECOphys LAB

ECOphys LAB has developed more than 35 years of research activities on trees and forests ecophysiology, under actual and future climate.

ECOphys LAB, laboratorio di Ecofisiologia Forestale del Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali (DIBAF) dell’Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo, Italia), coordina attività di ricerca volte ad analizzare le risposte degli alberi e delle foreste ai fattori ambientali (temperatura, disponibilità idrica, fertilità dei suoli, inquinamento), con partic

02/03/2026

An interesting paper

Source or sink? Trees with heart rot disease emit more methane, upending forest carbon models

https://news.nd.edu/news/source-or-sink-trees-with-heart-rot-disease-emit-more-methane-upending-forest-carbon-models/

26/02/2026

Il ciclo del bosco!

10/02/2026

Invitation to contribute to the special issue
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/5X47LKED7B

Site-Specific Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria Consortium Developed Using Functional and Genomic Analyses

07/02/2026

A new publication with the contribution of our Lab

Site-Specific Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria Consortium Developed Using Functional and Genomic Analyses Bioaugmentation, defined as the strategic incorporation of specifically selected microbial biomass into contaminated environments, can significantly enhance the biodegradation of pollutants and is extensively employed in soil bioremediation efforts. A multistep screening process was applied to devel...

23/01/2026

Trees are complex organisms!

In a new Science study, researchers report that bark microbes process methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide, showing that bark is an important component of global trace gas dynamics.

Learn more in a new Science Perspective: https://scim.ag/3NUvKIn

16/01/2026

Working in nature... the thing we love most!

Technology advances mean some scientists rarely leave the lab and have stopped doing field work. A feature in Nature reports how ecologists fear this loss could lead to error, bias and oversimplification of results.

Link to the article in the comments.

07/01/2026

Plants & Rock!!

An Integrated Modelling Framework to Determine Terrestrial Carbon Dioxide Removal via Enhanced Rock Weathering

🔗 https://buff.ly/0drr93h

24/12/2025

An interesting Tansley insight !

Tansley insight | The pulse of global vegetation: do individual rainfall events create a lasting imprint on photosynthesis?

Andrew F. Feldman 👇

📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70463

25/10/2025

A study in Nature reports that a transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.

Link to the research in the comments.