Interested in doing a postdoc in plankton ecology, on topics of community assembly, trait-based ecological resilience, stressor interactions, harmful algal blooms and others? Contact me to discuss developing a proposal for MSU's EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship (Nov 1 application deadline).

Lars Brudvig@lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Culver's root blooming with slender mountain mint, tall coreopsis, and pale indian plantain, in the Conservation Lands Experiment, at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social

Good morning from the Conservation Lands Experiment - our field-scale prairie reconstruction experiment at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social

Front yard pocket prairie update: Blue vervain (Verbena hastata) is now blooming, the sun is shining, and the bees are buzzing

Goodnight from Sleepy Hollow State Park

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It was another great day in our oak barrens restoration experiment, which couples repeated prescribed fire with clearing of woody encroachment We've made incredible progress over the last 15 years, improving habitat for species characteristic of this system, like harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)

Beautiful day in our oak barrens restoration experiment, at the MSU MacCready Reserve

The smoke has cleared (at least for now), the sun is shining, and bees are buzzing around the front yard pocket prairie, with wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), and yellow coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) in bloom

Update from the front yard pocket prairie: purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) are now in bloom

Happy 4th! #Flowerworks 🎆

In bloom last month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment: Spurred butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum) Virginia meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica) Pitted stripeseed (Piriqueta cistoides) Whitemouth dayflower (Commelina erecta)

Eastern prickly pear (Opuntia humifusa) blooming last month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment (South Carolina)

Soft greeneyes (Berlandiera pumila) blooming last month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment (South Carolina)

Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata), setting seed earlier this month in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment, in South Carolina Endemic to the southeastern U.S. coastal plain, this might be my favorite milkweed. Look at those leaves!

Currently in the front yard pocket prairie: Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) Prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta) Fox sedge (Carex vulpinoidea)

New from the SRS Corridor Project Experiment: Habitat fragmentation alters post-dispersal more than pre-dispersal seed predation through edge effects esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New paper alert 🚨 In a 13-year experiment in longleaf pine savannas, we tested when passive recovery works, and how active interventions can help it along. 🧵 Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Active interventions accelerate native plant recolonization following agricultural abandonment

Our results show that combined canopy thinning and prescribed burning can accelerate natural recolonization in savanna systems. However, additional measures (e.g. seed addition) may be needed for wea...

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Congratulations to recent lab alum Aidan Edwards, whose undergraduate research was just published: Prescribed fire and canopy thinning reverse effects of mesophication in fire-suppressed oak savannas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New from lab alum @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social. Traditional Marathi compositions up to 800 years old illustrate the antiquity of west Indian savannas. They are ancient and important conservation targets, not relicts of colonial forest clearance besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Utilizing traditional literature to triangulate the ecological history of a tropical savanna

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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It was a beautiful fall afternoon to do some seed collecting. We'll add these (and more) to our campus prairie reconstruction, as part of the restoration ecology course

New from the group: Across 100 oak savannas and five states, we show how management structures groundlayer plant diversity by modifying canopy openness, with context dependent effects based on spatial scale and soil attributes esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper led by former post-bac researcher Isabelle Turner, with @chriscatano.bsky.social: Seeding density alters the role of soil moisture in structuring plant abundance during prairie restoration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors

Great day today, working in the SRS Fragmentation Experiment. We're conducting our 19th field season, to understand long-term consequences of fragmentation for populations of longleaf pine savanna groundlayer plants species #demography #fieldwork

New paper: Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures

Regeneration of drought-tolerant and fire-adapted (pyrophytic) trees like oaks (Quercus spp.) is broadly limited by mesophication – a positive feedbac…

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Hey @martinnunez.bsky.social - guess what arrived arrived today? Looking forward to reading and sharing with students!

New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), and black-eyed Susan, starring together in the front yard pocket prairie