ECOphys LAB

Dear colleagues,
You are invited to consider publishing your research on the impact of pollution, in the broad ecosystemic sense, in the special issue "Environmental Contamination in Ecosystems: Plant-Soil-Water Interactions and Process Dynamics." Indeed, I believe it would be interesting to broaden the perspective on the impacts of pollution at increasingly larger spatial and temporal scales.
Manuscript submission deadline: July 31, 2027

Environmental Contamination in Ecosystems: Plant–Soil–Water Interactions and Process Dynamics Special Issue in journal Plants: Environmental Contamination in Ecosystems: Plant–Soil–Water Interactions and Process Dynamics

Trees-Traits!

🌲These findings highlight the predictive roles of individual traits related to carbon acquisition, water transportation, soil resource capture and tissue investment in growth.

👉️ https://buff.ly/dpjWDLj

Today: analysis of adaptation to sunflecks in Q.robur seedlings

Study of the regeneration of Quercus robur in a gap protected from grazing by large mammals: the role of the microclimate

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/

Il ciclo del bosco!

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

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...

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

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.