🚨🌳 Over one in three tree species is threatened with #extinction worldwide 🚨

Thanks to the first Global Tree Assessment, the #conservation status of ~50,000 tree species was evaluated for the most recent #IUCNRedList update.

38 % are #threatened.

@redlist
#biodiversity

🪱 Happy #EarthwormDay!
No kidding, they deserve a dedicated day, do you know how crucial they are to #soilfertility?

♻️ #Earthworms transform organic compounds (i.e. dead leaves) into molecules available to plants 🌱

🛠️ Their activity helps to structure the soil, aerate it, mix the different layers and facilitate water infiltration

➡️ Earthworms modify soil's physical, chemical and biological properties, they are ecosystem engineers!

#WorldEarthwormDay #soilhealth

🌙 Take the chance to listen to bat sounds tonight!

August 24-25 is International Bat Night. 🦇

All across Europe and beyond, volunteers equipped with ultrasound detectors will make you discover bat calls, usually inaudible to the human ear.
Perhaps you'll be able to hear long-eared bats, or other species!

Happy World #MangroveDay!

What makes this #ecosystem so important that @unesco has dedicated it a special day since 2016?

* Water filtering 💦
* #Biodiversity hotspot 🌱 🦀 🦪 🐟
* Food security for local communities 🥣
* Carbon sink #bluecarbon
* Protection of coastlines 🚧

The loss of #mangroves generates serious ecological and socio-economic impacts and alarmingly reduces the resilience to #climatechange of affected regions.

#conservation #restoration #sustainability

The dynamics of responses to #canopy opening in beech #trees 🌳

* W/o the protection from dominant trees, beech trees are more prone to wind-breaking 💨 🍃

* Decrease of axial growth, increase of radial growth, straighter stems :
👉 Increase of biomechanical safety through growth modification, w/o changes of #wood mechanical properties 🪵

* Increase of specific hydraulic conductivity 💧

Graphical abstract of Estelle Noyer’s PhD thesis 📜

#forests #forestry #biomechanics #acclimation #scicomm

The Nagel Lab @ UCR focuses on the temporal dynamics of temperature stress responses 🕗🌡️

Dawn needed two Figs to feature her research in oral presentations and grant proposals :
- An intro Fig. to present entrainment, compensation, phase shift, and gating, which involves the circadian clock and temperature
- A Fig. to highlight knowledge gaps

It was a pleasure to come up with graphic solutions to respond to Dawn’s needs 😃
✨ Thank you Dawn for trusting EffiScientiFig!

#scicomm #sciviz

You analyzed your data, you made nice charts, you are ready to present your results and conclusions 👌
Wait a second, did you check if your plots are colorblind-friendly?

There are many resources to guide people with normal color vision in their color choices:
👉 https://effiscientifig.com/accessible-graphs-color-choices/

When I conceive your graphs and illustrations, I carefully consider the colors I pick to make my work (and so yours!) inclusive and accessible to the most people.

#sciviz #scicomm

There are so many ways to see the world: the biology behind color vision 🌈

How does color vision work? 🎨 👀And why do people with color vision deficiency have trouble telling the difference between some colors?

Learn more 👇
https://effiscientifig.com/the-biology-of-color-vision/