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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 2w ago

Job ad available in attached image and on my lab website at peacchlab.com/opportunities.

ETSU is recruiting a masters student to begin in fall 2026 (start date Aug 17, 2026) under the co-supervision of Drs. Arpita Nandi (Dept of Geosciences) and Ben Lee (Dept of Biological Sciences). This is a two-year position and the student will be enrolled through and receive a degree from the Department of Geosciences. The student’s tuition will be covered in full and they will receive an annual stipend of $10k. Teaching will be required only for the first semester before the student transitions to a grant-funded fellowship. This position is mandatory in-person and located in Johnson City, Tennessee.

The selected applicant will work on a newly-funded project investigating the impact of Hurricane Helene on southern Appalachian ecosystems in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. They will be tasked with developing disturbance indices that account for both type (e.g., blowdown vs. flooding vs. landslides) and severity of disturbance and in coordinating an analysis comparing these remote-sensed indices to field-measured disturbance metrics. This project will inform site selection for consequent biodiversity and ecophysiological studies which the student will have the opportunity to participate in as well.

Successful applicants must have obtained a bachelors degree in environmental or biological sciences, geosciences, or a related field by August 2026, with at least a 3.0 GPA. The selected student will be required to relocate to Johnson City, TN by Aug 17, 2026 if not already present. For this reason, the student must already either be a US citizen or otherwise have permission to work in the US.

To apply, please email Dr. Ben Lee at LEEBR1@etsu.edu with a copy of your current CV and a short cover letter explaining your interest in the project, background in GIS and ecology, and a copy of your transcripts (unofficial is fine). Applications will be reviewed immediately as they arrive until the position is filled.

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Diminishing returns in leaf area–fresh mass scaling Lin et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S2SPHW...

The distribution of the scaling exponents for leaf area vs fresh weight and the ratios of leaf area to fresh weight across the 335 woody species.

Experimental Interaction Ecology @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out in @pnas.org , led by our postdoc Pubin Hong: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "Differences in evolutionary history and plant traits reduce competition, thereby simultaneously promoting species coexistence and productivity." 🌱📏🧪 @jena-experiment.bsky.social

Mechanistic links between coexistence, productivity, and stability in experimental grasslands | PNAS

The escalating biodiversity crisis underscores the urgent need for a unified framework that links the mechanisms maintaining biodiversity to its fu...

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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · 10mo ago

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨 I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu.

A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves.

A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 10mo ago

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 12mo ago

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The tree growth–herbivory relationship depends on functional traits across forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Ecology & Evolution

It is unclear whether the linkage between tree species richness and insect herbivory is consistent across climates and forest types. Here, the authors analyse data from forest biodiversity experiments...

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

🗞️New publication🗞️ How do neighbourhood diversity effects on tree growth change with climatic conditions?🌳🌲🔆🌧️ We adress this question in our new study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Liting Zheng. www.nature.com/articles/s41... /w @liting-zheng.bsky.social, Peter Reich & #TreeDivNet

Neighbourhood diversity increases tree growth in experimental forests more in wetter climates but not in wetter years - Nature Ecology & Evolution

How tree diversity effects on ecosystem functioning vary along climatic gradients is unclear. Here, analysing data from 15 experimental forest sites, the authors show that tree growth responses to nei...

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