Seth Munson
@smmunson.bsky.social
Plant, ecosystem, restoration ecologist in the southwestern US researching global drylands.
Please pass along - my department @uofa-eeb.bsky.social is hiring! Assistant Professor in quantitative population and community ecology - come join us in wonderful #Tucson ! #AcademicJobs 🧪🌾🌐 arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant Professor of Quantitative, Population, and Community Ecology (T/TE)
Establish and maintain a competitive research program.Teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and contribute to mentoring and supporting studen...
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Do you know an awesome student working in deserts? Or a non-US ecologist deserving recognition? Consider nominating them for the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Shreve (student/deserts) or Whittaker (intl. ecologist) awards by Nov. 19! I'm the chair for both and can answer ?s esa.org/about/awards/
Awards – Ecological Society of America
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Want to work in some of the Sky Islands’ coolest places, from the Pajaritos to the Chiricahuas and Pinaleños? We’re hiring a restoration manager with 5+ years of field experience. To learn more and apply, visit: https://ow.ly/6Zzf50ZWt6j. We’ll start reviewing apps on Oct. 26.
📢 New publication 'Linking #drought strategy to climate-of-origin in a widespread #C4 grass: hydraulic traits, #xylem anatomy and stomatal behaviour in Themeda triandra' by @vin-jacob.bsky.social et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Linking drought strategy to climate‐of‐origin in a widespread <fc>C4</fc> grass: hydraulic traits, xylem anatomy and stomatal behaviour in <fi>Themeda triandra</fi>
Climate-of-origin of Themeda triandra populations used in this study.
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RESEARCH ARTICLE A Decade of Rainfall Manipulation Reveals Growing‐Season Aridity as a Key Determinant of Grassland Productivity and Stability 🔗 buff.ly/C1bJos4
Hello, Bluesky! 🌱 We’re Landscape Stewardship Collective, a new nonprofit connecting science with practical conservation & restoration. We translate genetic, ecological & climate information into practical decisions for land managers, seed growers & partners. landscollective.org
Landscape Stewardship Collective | Restoration & Conservation
Landscape Stewardship Collective provides research and practical guidance for native plant restoration, seed sourcing, species conservation, and land stewardship.
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And here is the link to apply careers.nau.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
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Drew Peltier@peltierdrew.bsky.social · last mo.We are recruiting for a postdoc position (now / soon!), located in Flagstaff, AZ at NAU. We are particularly interested in a flux person. Please come join a fun multi-institutional team where we make very funny, definitely cool jokes about p-values.
Our new paper led by Tim Ohlert explores how low impact solar energy development shapes plant diversity across spatial scales. doi.org/10.1088/2515...
The effect of solar energy development on plant diversity across spatial scales
The effect of solar energy development on plant diversity across spatial scales, Ohlert, Timothy J, Karban, Claire C, Munson, Seth M, Smith, Melinda D
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Happy to share a new paper from a field campaign with an amazing team: "Experimental evidence of a biological soil crust degradation climate warming amplification feedback," with @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social and others www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Imposed-heating experiments, along with/two national-scale phenological observation networks, show plants w/thinner leaves & higher nutrient concentrations are more sensitive to warming, in terms of earlier leaf out & later leaf fall —> longer growing szns. 1/2 www.usanpn.org/news/article...
Drylands may expand less than expected when plant responses to rising CO2 are included. Under a high-emissions pathway, projected cover reaches 40.28% by 2100 instead of 42.11%, with regional shifts still substantial. doi.org/hch2m9
Plants' response to rising CO₂ could put the brakes on dryland expansion
Drylands are defined as regions where rainfall is low relative to the atmosphere's ability to draw water from soil and plants.
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📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...
New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.
New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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Really excited to share our new paper out today in Nature, led by Alex Fajardo. We show that exotic conifers grow up to 4x faster than in their native ranges. Despite this, they are also more drought resistant, defying a tradeoff between growth and stress tolerance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pines grow faster and are more drought resilient in the Southern Hemisphere - Nature
Non-native conifers from the Northern Hemisphere grow faster and are more drought resistant and resilient in the Southern Hemisphere, where they seem to escape the growth–stress-tolerance tr...
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📖 New research📖 These findings provide an evidence-based framework for selecting AMF inocula according to restoration goals in drylands, highlighting the importance of environmental history when developing microbiome-based interventions 🏜️ 🍄🟫 🔎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Our new paper asks the question: is there any precedent for recent, high-severity fires that have removed >100,000 acres of forests from northern New Mexico? Based on the locations of trees that recorded surface fires over the prior 500 years, the answer is, statistically speaking, "not a chance".
GrumpyUncleSean🔥@grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/5 New paper in PNAS led by Andreas Wion! 🔥🌍🧪 For centuries, dry-conifer forests in the western U.S. burned frequently, but mostly at low severity, meaning most trees were not killed by fire. Read on for details ...
Call for papers: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life Abstract submission deadline approaching: 5 September 2026 www.newphytologist.org/news/call-fo... #PlantScience
Call for papers: 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'
The New Phytologist Foundation is pleased to announce a call for papers for a joint Special Collection of New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet on the theme of ‘Extreme Heat: extending the…
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EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Underground fungal networks come into 3D view without disturbing plant roots www.tum.de/en/news-and-... Read the paper: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #fungi
3D Imaging Reveals Underground Plant–Fungal Networks
A new TUM method reveals how plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi interact in soil, offering insights for climate-resilient and drought-tolerant crops.
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Our results show long-term aridity is one of the most important drivers of grassland resistance to drought. Aridity impacted resistance indirectly by shaping functional composition and plant diversity. Terrific new paper led by Diana Bertuol-Garcia besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Long‐term aridity shapes grassland drought resistance and modulates the roles of plant diversity and functional composition
Widely studied stability drivers such as plant diversity and functional composition have only partial explanatory power for short-term drought resistance of above-ground productivity in grasslands at...
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Our new paper led by the great @julieelarson.bsky.social explores plant recruitment bottlenecks driven by drought and freezing. We test if early functional traits, phylogeny, and climate niche explain stress tolerances across 49 dryland species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional traits can explain coordinated seedling responses to drought and freezing stress
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group at Carnegie Science, now based at Caltech in Pasadena. If you're interested in land-atmosphere interactions and how they're influenced on small scales by microclimates, please take a look at the ad! apply.interfolio.com/190703
Ecological determinants of stability in dryland plant communities Gresse et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Looking for the Southwest Chapter at ESA 2026? You can find us at our table in the exhibit hall or at one of our events! We have an organized oral session, a business mixer and a career central event. We are excited to see everyone in Salt Lake City!🌵
🌱This study reveals a dual response in grasslands to repeated drought, where community fine root traits maintain high resistance through species turnover, suggesting that community functional responses to climate extremes cannot be inferred from species trait shifts alone 👉️ buff.ly/gmDusXy
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
Join the lab! – Caughlin lab
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Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵
Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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☀️🫗Quantitative synthesis of the effects of drought on community composition and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems vist.ly/584ei #ClimateChange #Decomposition #Diversity #FoodWeb #InteractionStrength #MetaAnalysis
