Interested in deep learning in ecology? Apply for a postdoc position at Boise State! We are accepting applications until August 15th. I am at ESA, if anyone would like to have an in-person conversation about the position. #ESA #drones #postdoc #jobs

Trevor Caughlin@trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

New job--please share! Looking for a postdoc to deep learning methods for identifying plant species from drone imagery. The two year position offers a salary of $78,000 and the option to be based in Boise, Idaho, or Burns, Oregon. For more info: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/ #postdoc #drones #ai

Our new MS on post-fire seeding is out! It turns out post-fire seeding at higher rates than typically used, and over multiple years gives a much greater chance of seeing success in dryland areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Steph likes native plants@dendromecon27.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Actual good news! A past MS student of mine and @bkshriver.bsky.social had his first, first-authored paper accepted in Restoration Ecology today! It is about post-fire reseeding in the Great Basin. I will post a synopsis when it publishes. Congrats Martin (not on BlueSky)!

New paper on post-fire seeding led by Martin Genova! Martin was co-advised by @dendromecon27.bsky.social and I.

Steph likes native plants@dendromecon27.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new MS on post-fire seeding is out! It turns out post-fire seeding at higher rates than typically used, and over multiple years gives a much greater chance of seeing success in dryland areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Linking Climate and Demography to Predict Population Dynamics and Persistence Under Global Change

Predicting how climate change will affect the population dynamics and ultimately persistence of plant and animal populations is a grand challenge in biodiversity science and global change biology. Co...

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Actual good news! A past MS student of mine and @bkshriver.bsky.social had his first, first-authored paper accepted in Restoration Ecology today! It is about post-fire reseeding in the Great Basin. I will post a synopsis when it publishes. Congrats Martin (not on BlueSky)!

Writeup about Daniel and I's new project looking at traits and demography in western forests!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Congrats to BSA member Daniel Laughlin! UW botany professor awarded NSF grant to study drought and fire in western forests www.thefencepost.com/news/uw-bota...

I am giving a CalFire webinar tomorrow, Nov 25, at 3pm PDT on our work on Eastern Sierra post-fire forest regeneration, tree-shrub relationships, and cheatgrass invasion in the region (cue hissing noise). Register here! events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/d08db5...

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Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.

Tim Curran@timcurran.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐 doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @newphyt.bsky.social

Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings

Growth patterns recorded in tree rings may predict drought ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Past studies of drought-killed trees have produced conflicting evidence. Some show killed trees were highly respons...

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New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Density‐dependent growth and dispersal can accurately forecast near‐term range shifts in a dominant dryland tree species

We found that the inclusion of external drivers such as climate conditions or topography generally did not improve forecast accuracy and that at multidecadal time scales, intrinsic population process....

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Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!

Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.

“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...

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A bit late but excited to see our new TREE paper out on integrating PSFs with resilience theory! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Integration of plant–soil feedbacks with resilience theory for climate change

The resilience of ecosystems to climate disruption requires internal feedbacks that support the stability of ecosystem structure and function. Such feedbacks may include sustained interactions between...

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🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yale School of the Environment is hiring an open-rank professor in temperate forest resilience! Come be my colleague!!!!! environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...

A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out! www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

Human intervention or natural dynamics? Rethinking theories on woodland expansion | University of Nevada, Reno

New research challenges long-standing beliefs about rising tree densities in the West’s dry woodlands

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Dioecious plants have separate male and female individuals, and temperature sensitivity may vary between sexes. A study of a dioecious grass species, Texas Bluegrass, shows that poleward shifts will be shaped by male heat intolerance. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Hydrology Paper of the Day @bkshriver.bsky.social on why woody plants are apparently more prevalent in dryland areas: long-term increases in tree population are responsible for more young trees, and low rates of tree establishment over the past 400 years in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

Bob Shriver@bkshriver.bsky.social · last yr.

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.

Jon Henn@hennhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We begin reviewing applications next week!

Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost! @EsaSeeds

The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...

Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States

Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...

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Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes! More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...

Our department at the University of Nevada is looking for a Chair to help lead us into the future! We are young and very research active applied ecology and environmental science department. Come join us!

Research on a Tahoe endemic alpine plant led by M.S. student Sage Ellis was featured in the Sierra Sun. Sage just defended her thesis! Check it out more about her research here: www.sierrasun.com/news/tahoe-d...

Tahoe draba: the cutest plant you’ve never heard of

GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA, Calif./Nev. – If you have lived in Tahoe or frequented it for some time, chances are you’ve heard about Tahoe yellow cress or stumbled on beach signs cautioning of the rare...

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Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677

Postdoctoral Scholar - Community Ecology – ESPM: Organisms and the Environment

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Interested in field ecology, genomics, and infectious diseases? Want to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? Then this job might be for you! We will start reviewing applications on 22 November and hope to have the position filled by the new year.

Fletcher Halliday@fletcher-h.bsky.social · 2y ago

Together with @aaronliston.bsky.social we are recruiting a full-time lab technician to support our research labs at Oregon State University. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/161... Closing date is 11/22, but we will continue to recruit until the position is filled.