Scenes from Camp 41 in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest (HARI trip)

World’s largest leaf? Coccoloba spp leaf at INPA in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Highlights from the #AAAS Fellows Induction Ceremony in DC today including the giant oak in Rock Creek Park.

Highlights from the delightful @harvard.edu Herbarium oak workshop in April, hosted by @cavenderg9.bsky.social and staff with colleagues from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social @bluedevilherbarium.bsky.social UNAM, BUAP, CIIDIR, U Chicago, IOS... A great week! salatainstitute.harvard.edu/harvards-hid...

Harvard’s hidden oak collection gets global attention - The Salata Institute

At a first-of-its-kind workshop, Quercus experts examined specimens, updated decades-old identifications, and began turning one of the world’s oldest oak collections into a clearer baseline for global...

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TreeDivNet 2026 in Freiburg, Germany

North American Forest Genetics Society #NAFGS26 🌲 🌳 🧬! Abstracts due Mar 1 | Travel Awards Mar 8 | Early Reg ends Mar 31 | Looking forward to welcoming you & our invited speakers in Québec City: @jillahamilton.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social @jeansebmoore.bsky.social @arthurouaknine.bsky.social

January issue: Review from Keping Ma on the effects of forest biodiversity on ecosystem function. 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/4pNeQJ0 Readcube: rdcu.be/eZInL @xliu225.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social @alainpaquette.bsky.social

In anticipation of the United States' withdrawal from IPBES, Chair @davidobura.bsky.social responds with #empathy and a renewed commitment to supporting credible science to inform biodiversity decision-making 🐋 🌿💗

IPBES@ipbes.net · 7mo ago

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

I am glad to share insights on what we have learned from the global set of forest biodiversity experiments over the last three decades in this new review paper first-authored by my wonderful colleague, Xiaojuan Liu, from the BEF China experiment www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...

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Protecting nature to stabilize climate - The Salata Institute

Climate change and biodiversity loss are tightly linked crises. Treating them as separate problems risks making both worse.

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My first time in the Atlantic Forest—Parque das Neblinas—in Brazil before heading to #COP30. I saw these incredible Tangará birds (wire-tailed manakins) in the midst of their mating dance. Apparently the male birds cooperate in a hierarchy of sorts to attract the female. Enjoy!

My first time in the Atlantic Forest—Parque das Neblinas—in Brazil before heading to #COP30. I saw these incredible Tangará birds (wire-tailed manakins) in the midst of their mating dance. Apparently the male birds cooperate in a hierarchy of sorts to attract the female. Enjoy!

📢 latest IDENT paper, in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! @paqlab.bsky.social @meganedeziel.bsky.social @ritasousasilva.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social @ebsearle.bsky.social

Journal of Ecology@journalofecology.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🍃 Functional traits best predict tree growth when age and leaf habit are considered–growth relationships shift over time and between deciduous and evergreen species🌿 @meganedeziel.bsky.social @alainpaquette.bsky.social Read more:https://buff.ly/2d9ppq9

Herbaria + spectra = broad and rapid insights into plant ecology and evolution 🌿 Proud to share our latest with @cavenderg9.bsky.social and #IHerbSpec: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Next‐generation specimen digitization: capturing reflectance spectra from the world's herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa

Spectral reflectance measured from herbarium specimens represents a potentially vast source of information relevant to plant taxon identification and functional traits, which has inspired many labora....

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Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org

Jeannine Cavender-Bares@cavenderg9.bsky.social · last yr.

I am very happy to share this paper that provides the conceptual synthesis for our forthcoming special feature in Ecology on spectral biology and the NSF ASCEND Biology Integration Institute (Advancing Spectral biology in Changing Environments..) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK...

I am very happy to share this paper that provides the conceptual synthesis for our forthcoming special feature in Ecology on spectral biology and the NSF ASCEND Biology Integration Institute (Advancing Spectral biology in Changing Environments..) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK...

Fun week @idiv-research.bsky.social attending the 1st meeting of sTREND working group on synthesis of tree traits responses to neighbouring diversity with @mixedforests.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social and others

How does tree plasticity in response to neighbors influence forest productivity? We had such a great sTREND meeting at iDIV discussing the consequences of intraspecific variation in trees for ecosystem function and potential mechanisms of complementarity and net biodiversity effects.

Florian Schnabel@mixedforests.bsky.social · last yr.

It was a pleasure to meet and discuss tree trait responses to diversity @idiv-research.bsky.social 🌳🌲 #sTREND rocks🚨/w @juliakoricheva.bsky.social, @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @habenblondeel.bsky.social, @cavenderg9.bsky.social, @shankothari.bsky.social, @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social, #TreeDivNet

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... "For every dollar spent [on science], the economy eventually produces an additional $1.71 in output. That return exceeds nearly every other form of public or private investment."

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

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Just sayin’

Every year, we host a lecture and celebrate after with a banquet. This year, May 3 at 3pm EDT, we will hear from Ryan Schmidt from Harvard on the hidden heroes of herbaria! The lecture can be watched in person or on zoom - details & registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/torrey-bot... 🌾🌿🧪 #botany

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The ground is daily shifting under our feet, and it is hard to cope or know what to do. It was so uplifting hiking on Mt Graylock in the Berkshires today with Steven Augustine and Azzo Seguin—thinking about freezing tolerance along altitudinal gradients.

What interesting and exciting common garden / reciprocal transplant experiments do you know of? Who is conducting them? I'm interested in connecting with folks as we continue to work on our climate-focused bur oak experiment in OK, IL and MN w/ @cavenderg9.bsky.social, Heather McCarthy & colleagues.

Check out this new #AJB Commentary by Elizabeth Lombardi & Hannah Marx! #Herbaria as critical resources for studying plant-virus #biodiversity & #epidemiology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology

Beautiful hemlock and red oak grove along the Cattaraugus Creek in western NY @Steven-Augustine 🌲🌲🌳

For the forest ecology feed #forestecol 🍁 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Forest and Biodiversity 2: A tree diversity experiment to understand the consequences of multiple dimensions of diversity and composition for long‐term ecosystem function and resilience

We introduce a new “ecosystem-scale” experiment at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in central Minnesota, USA to test long-term ecosystem consequences of tree diversity and composition. T...

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Our paper on the Forest and Biodiversity experiment (FAB2) at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve is out. We made the cover! The “ecosystem-scale” experiment is designed to test long-term ecosystem consequences of tree diversity & composition besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...