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X-ray microscopes are not only suitable for material samples - the application possibilities are much broader! 🤩 "Katherine Wolcott has been, as she says, "in love" with 3D imaging technologies ever since she took her first CT scan of a sea spider (Pycnogonida) during her master’s program. She works with specimens from natural history museums, and being able to study the anatomy of tiny structures such as nerves, glands, and vasculature in situ in a non-invasive way is a dream come true for her." (more insights can be found in the full user story - link below) #ndt #xray #microscopy #xraymicroscopy #xrm #materialsscience #lifescience

The unseen world around us 🌿 In his TEDxBerlin Talk Dr. Valentin Hammoudi a molecular biologist specialized in plant science, sheds light on "plant blindness," a prevalent bias where over 90% of people overlook plants in their surroundings. To stress what this bias makes us miss out, the speaker passionately showcases plants' remarkable abilities, emphasizing their crucial role for humans and Earth. The talk calls for urgent attention to plant conservation, exploring exciting applications in ecology, medicine, and technology, and urges the audience to combat plant blindness by appreciating and discussing the significance of plants in their daily lives. watch the video here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJmYPq7D #TEDxBerlin #ideasworthspreading #ChallengeYourPerspective

If you asked me 2 years ago if I'd be working on butterflies' chemical defense, I would have never guessed it. Yet here we are, taking steps in new and exciting research areas! Along with great mentors, experts in their fields, Dr. Edward Kennelly in metabolic studies and Dr. David Lohman in ecology. 🦋 #Lehman #ICNPR2024Krakow"

It is very exciting (and sometimes tiresome ) to participate in the spatial design and preparation of this long-term experiment at Harvard Forest. Which is aimed to test the effects of interspecific interactions of trees on many relevant ecological outputs such as carbon sequestration, leaf mass production, phenological traits, response against pathogens , and histories of life. Check out the publication! 👉 https://lnkd.in/gJYRP88v

Join us TOMORROW (March 12) for a public science seminar on using NEON airborne data! There will be two presenters: Adriana Uscanga will discuss the characterization of disturbance trajectories to better predict forest carbon uptake at NEON sites using Landsat and NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP data); and Nayani Ilangakoon will speak on evaluating disturbance impact on ecosystem diversity and transformations using NEON AOP and drone data. The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON.

I'm excited to share our new publication: "Autocorrelation as a Critical Factor of Growth Depensation of Tropical Trees in the Chocó Biogeographic Region" (https://lnkd.in/eNFFjTWf), which presents the main findings of my Master's thesis. The study addresses two key research questions: 1️⃣ How can tropical tree diameters be modeled over time using tree-ring data while accounting for autocorrelation? 2️⃣ What ontogenic traits and silvicultural metrics of importance for ecology and forest management can be calculated for tree species of the Chocó biogeographic region after estimating statistical diameter models? Sergio Alonso Orrego Suaza, Diego Andrés David Flórez

Living organisms utilize a range of chemical and mechanical stimuli to interact with their environment. Chemical stimuli include, for example, the pheromones, while the newly emerged field of the substrate-borne vibrations represents an example of mechanical stimuli. Substrate-borne vibrations play a crucial role in mediating behaviors in animals and inducing physiological responses in plants, leading to the emergence of the discipline of biotremology. While terms such as pheromones, allelomones, and kairomones are well-established in the field of chemical ecology, our recent research proposes a new terminology for vibrational communication, including terms such as pherodones, allelodones, and kairodones. You can download here the full article published in the prestigious Trends in Plant Science: https://lnkd.in/eV6QA68v It has been a great privilege to contribute to the collaborative efforts of a select group of experts in chemical ecology and biotremology. Valerio Mazzoni, Gianfranco Anfora, Reginald Cocroft, Nina Fatouros, Astrid Groot, Jurgen Gross, Peggy Hill, Hannelore Hoch, Claudio Iariatti, Rachele Nieri, Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi, Lukasz Stelinski, Takuma Takanashi, Meta Virant-Doberlet, Andreas Wessel

Join us TOMORROW, May 14 at 12pm MDT, for the next NEON public science seminar! Tune in to hear Colleen Iverson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory discuss "The hidden half of ecosystem responses to climate change." The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Register here: https://buff.ly/4bybq6t #openscience

Join us next Tuesday, May 14, for the next NEON public science seminar! Tune in to hear @Colleen_Iversen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory discuss "The hidden half of ecosystem responses to climate change." The goal of the NEON monthly science seminar series is to build community among researchers at the intersection of ecology, environmental science, and NEON. Register here: #openscience

Social distancing is not only helpful to prevent the spread of human diseases but may also promote coexistence of different tree species and explain why there are more tree species in tropical forests. This was found by a team of 52 scientists from around the world, led by Lisa Hülsmann, Professor of Ecosystem Analysis and Simulation at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and Florian Hartig, Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, who analyzed patterns of tree mortality across a global network of large-scale forest plots coordinated by the ForestGEO program at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Their results, just published in Nature, show that trees experience higher mortality when surrounded by neighbors of the same species, probably caused by specialized pathogens or herbivores. The effect is present in forests all over the world, but it is more pronounced among rare tropical tree species, perhaps contributing to the astounding biological diversity of tropical forests compared to forests in temperate areas. https://lnkd.in/eMG9NMMt