📢 We are hiring! PhD opportunity in my group as part of MSCA Doctoral Network ReDiLEEP, which recruits 13 Doctoral Candidates. Focus in this project: traits, responses & plant community stability in boreal forest and tundra. Supervised together with @lauraantao.bsky.social DL 18 Sept 👇

Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in plant community ecology

Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in plant community ecology

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Bedrock lithology determines forest demographic responses to drought - Nature Communications

Drought threatens forests worldwide, but bedrock effects are overlooked. This study suggests that bedrock lithology reverses demographic drought responses in karst forests, leaving younger and smaller...

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Fostering creative output from lab meetings matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/fostering-...

Fostering creative output from lab meetings

Our journal club has a (relatively) new feature

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Postdoctor in Botany (Plant Science) University of Gothenburg/Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Sweden euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/460756 #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJob #PlantSciJob

Postdoctor in Botany (Plant Science)

The University of Gothenburg tackles society’s challenges with diverse knowledge. 58 000 students and 6800 employees make the university a large and inspiring place to work and study. Strong research ...

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🎉🆕📰🎉: Diverging sex ratios in dioecious Proteaceae are exacerbated by anthropogenic disruptions to the fire cycle doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Diverging sex ratios in dioecious Proteaceae are exacerbated by anthropogenic disruptions to the fire cycle

AbstractBackground and Aims. Secondary sex ratios in dioecious plant species often deviate from the expected 1:1 primary male-to-female ratio due to differ

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Researchers developed a method to track and predict pollen movement through the environment, with potential applications for understanding pollen dispersal in #invasive plants. Congratulations to Dr. David Schmale and team! 🌾 news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Research seeks better understanding of pollen movement from ground to sky

In a new study, researchers established an accurate methodology for tracking, measuring, and forecasting pollen dispersal of genetically engineered switchgrass at both the ground and atmospheric level...

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📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...

Great opportunity for a postdoc position looking at Mendenhall Glacier outburst floods at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. Preference is given to applications received by Sept. 1. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/postdoc... ❄️⚒️🧪

Art x Climate is an integral part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), restored by Climate.us. #SciArt #ClimateForUs One of the featured artworks is “0.64” by Cody Norton. Year and Medium: 2020, construction grade sign, metal post

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam is seeking applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position! See the full solicitation on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/po...

A new study in Borneo shows that cutting back invasive woody vines allows logged tropical forests to regenerate much faster. Using LiDAR data, researchers found that thinning these lianas boosts tree growth and reduces mortality, outperforming simple tree-planting efforts. Ruth Kamnitzer reports.

Cutting back vines lets recovering forests grow faster, Borneo study shows

As the world faces the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, researchers are trying to understand how to restore degraded forests to most effectively sequester carbon, benefit…

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This is the landscape unfolding across Western Europe during this very hot & dry summer. In contrast, much of eastern Europe & Scandinavia felt lower than ave. temperatures. More about the extreme weather affecting Europe & other parts of the world: https://bit.ly/4xzcZfg

Population and Ecotypic Differentiation in the Poaceae: Past and Present Approaches link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Population and Ecotypic Differentiation in the Poaceae: Past and Present Approaches - The Botanical Review

Incorporation of evolutionary theory into experimental investigations of natural populations was important to the development of plant ecology. We review the prominent role grasses (Poaceae) have play...

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🧬 #PlantConservationWeek 🌿 Population density influences genetic connectivity in the Canary Islands endemics Viola cheiranthifolia and Viola guaxarensis by Sonia Sarmiento Cabello and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/rh6m @sonisarm.bsky.social #PlantScience #Botany

Had a great time collecting demographic data on moss campion and alpine bistort in arctic Alaska! 🌸

🌱 New research shows how citizen scientists and satellite data can work together to map rare habitats. Using volunteer plant surveys and satellite imagery, this new study created a 3m map of lowland heathland in Surrey—supporting better conservation planning 📖 buff.ly/JIHJx0F

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Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages

The results indicate that successful restoration of grassland vegetation and butterflies is strongly linked. To fully restore target butterfly assemblages, future grassland restoration should aim to ....

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Silene acaulis is taking me to fun places again! 🏔️🌸 In the Canadian Rockies this year.

Oh, I’ll have to check that out! Economists have now realized that that’s a problem they can’t ignore and there have been two somewhat recent papers on this. I’ll dig them up (my) tomorrow morning. I replicated the very early version of one of them in R.

Spatial autocorrelation & co – Mountain Doodles

Common (and commonly ignored) problems in spatial analysis.

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Don't forget about spatial confounding: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Adding Spatially-Correlated Errors Can Mess Up the Fixed Effect You Love

Many statisticians have had the experience of fitting a linear model with uncorrelated errors, then adding a spatially-correlated error term (random effect) and finding that the estimates of the f...

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Excited to share my first first-author paper: "Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length and summer warming" doi.org/10.1088/2752... We examine NDVI data from 1984 - present across the alpine tundra of the Southern Rocky Mountains!

Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length and summer warming

Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length and summer warming, Moore, Miles A., Emery, Nancy C., Elmendorf, Sarah C.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive industries.

The Grand Canyon Just Won a Massive Legal Victory Against Uranium Mining

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive industries.

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Murray et al. show that the fast-slow continuum of life history variation emerges as a contour of highest fitness in the face of catastrophic demographic disturbances, which rivals some classic hypotheses. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

New paper led by @bgc-jena.mpg.de colleagues: "Higher plant diversity strengthens microbial functioning and enhances microbiome resilience, that is the capacity of the microbial community to maintain soil functioning despite environmental disturbances." doi.org/10.1186/s407...

Plant diversity induces shifts from microbial generalists to specialist by enhancing niche differentiation, microbiome connectivity, and network stability in a temperate grassland - Environmental Micr...

Background Soil microbiota are key players of terrestrial ecosystem functioning, including decomposition, soil organic matter formation, and nutrient cycling, and interact strongly with plants in the ...

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I’m excited to share a new commentary I wrote with my advisor, Dr. Megan DeMarche, on recent work showing that phenological and range shifts together alter the timing and composition of flowering communities. 🌸🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Uniting Range and Phenological Shifts to Better Understand Effects of Climate Change on Communities

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🎉🆕📰🎉: Experimental thinning reduces inter-ovary competition among and within inflorescences doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex

At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

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We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr