Eva Gril

Investigating forest microclimate & mycorrhiza

PhD at @UMR_EDYSAN, now postdoc at Chrono-environnement 🌳

Science blog (FR):

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

Just a few days ago, I defended and obtained my PhD in ecology: 🌳 "Modelling forest microclimate and its consequences on understory flora under climate change" 🌱This thread outlines the main results of my 4 chapters!
Photo by @f_spicher - PhD funded by project @ForMicroclimate

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

Register now! Deadline approaching 🔜
https://t.co/th84xyianb

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

Deadline extension for the microclimate conference: now up to March 1st to submit an abstract for a talk or poster! https://t.co/DJWmEPJfCm

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
https://t.co/DJWmEPJfCm
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

[Jonathan Lenoir @EkoLogIt]

Reportage photo du projet #IMPRINT, réalisé par Eva Gril & CNRS Images, sur l'étude des #microclimats #forestiers dans un contexte de réchauffement global 🌳🌍🌐🧪

@CNRS
@CNRSecologie
@CNRSImages

https://t.co/3Q1UOy0vrV

[Jonas Lembrechts @JLembrechts]

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database.

Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here:

https://t.co/livcdCzLHm

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

Invitée par la fondation Evertéa, j'ai adoré participer à Pint of Science 🍺 au bar Cause Toujours (Valence) : "Les super-pouvoirs de la forêt, passés aux rayons laser !" #pint25 @pintofscienceFR
Binôme avec Aurore Toulou, sur les microclimats & espaces verts urbains 🌳

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️
https://t.co/DJWmEPJfCm
Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

@ethiffault @JEcology Thank you very much Evelyne!!

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

I'm so happy to have my photo & microclimate paper featured on @JEcology's cover!

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

On the cover: Campylopus introflexus #moss found in Blois forest, France. Below #forest canopies, vascular #plants & #bryophytes often experience a less extreme, buffered microclimate temperature

📸@eva_gril
🔗https://t.co/CK1gqkFYNN

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

@ForMicroclimate @UMR_EDYSAN @EkoLogIt @f_spicher @RonanMarrec @GuillaumeDecocq @BorisBrasseur @Emi_Gallet

[Jonathan Lenoir @EkoLogIt]

Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓

🧪🌐🍁

https://t.co/qfv3FORTlR

[Hans Verbeeck @Hans1Verbeeck]

We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) @Q_ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: “African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing”.
Deadline: 1st of December 2024.
https://t.co/kGvGo3G6qs
@belspo @BelgianEO @FbwUGent

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

@tommaso_jucker @JEcology @f_spicher @BorisBrasseur @GuillaumeDecocq @EkoLogIt Thank youuuuu @tommaso_jucker! 🙏

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

In this article, we discuss how buffering would relate to light and humidity in addition to temperature regimes, the implications for forest management... https://t.co/utCFwFysbX
It's open access (code too), please read and share with your plant or forest enthusiast friends! 🌱🌳

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

The method! a) We measured hourly micro & macroclimate temperatures (b) We derived the slope of the linear relationship between these two T (c) We used species presence/absence to fit species response curves to microclimate buffering (log_slope>0) vs amplification (log_slope > 0)

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

And finally, the percentage of forest core specialists does increase with forest microclimate buffering. To conserve most of those understory species under CC, keeping a high and dense canopy seems like our best option.. But many other forest (edge) specialists would be excluded!

[Eva Gril @eva_gril]

My 4th PhD paper is out in @JEcology!! Thanks to coauthors, editors and reviewers! 💃✨ I wrote a small thread below with all of the main figures of the article (and a supplementary one) ⤵️

[Journal of Ecology @JEcology]

Understory #plants have contrasted affinities to the #forest microclimate!🌳Among 126 vascular plants & 64 #bryophytes, many species prefer buffered (less extreme) temps, but not all...
@eva_gril @f_spicher @BorisBrasseur @GuillaumeDecocq @EkoLogIt https://t.co/CK1gqkFYNN