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Melissa Pastore

@lispastore.bsky.social

Research Ecologist at U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis // Views my own

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski@mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm very honored for our paper to be selected for the Haldane Prize! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... And this is actually one of two foundational papers in the "Ecological Acclimation" framework; check out another recent publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 4mo ago

Well done to Michael (Misha) Stemkovski, @mishastemkovski.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Haldane Prize in @funecology.bsky.social. Misha's paper presents ecological acclimation as a framework that synthesises various ways ecosystems adjust to climate change. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Melissa Pastore@lispastore.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper led by Lucas Harris: Natural mortality now exceeds harvesting as a driver of biomass loss in northeastern U.S. forests - a major shift over the past two decades. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Shifting balance between natural mortality and harvesting in forests of the northeastern USA

Natural disturbance is increasing in temperate forests worldwide as global change impacts intensify, potentially shifting the balance between forest harvesting and natural disturbance as drivers of bi...

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski@mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function

When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...

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Alexej Siren@apks.bsky.social · last yr.

How do #forests influence #snowpack dynamics in the northeastern US? Check out our new paper led by @lispastore.bsky.social and Dr. Nelson (@appmtnclub.bsky.social) published in @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Hint: mixedwood forests = snow refugia.

Snow refugia: Managing temperate forest canopies to maintain winter conditions

Climate change is reducing snowpack across temperate regions with negative consequences for human and natural systems. Because forest canopies create microclimates that preserve snowpack, managing fo...

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski@mishastemkovski.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

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

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Melissa Pastore@lispastore.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our new paper led by Lucas Harris 🌱🦌 Effects of browsing by white-tailed deer on tree regeneration vary by ontogeny and palatability in forests of the northeastern USA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Effects of browsing by white-tailed deer on tree regeneration vary by ontogeny and palatability in forests of the northeastern USA

Tree regeneration in northern temperate and southern boreal forests is threatened by multiple factors, including over-browsing by ungulates such as wh…

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Melissa Pastore@lispastore.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper led by Ashley Lang 🚨 Bulk density calcuation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bulk density calculation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests - Biogeochemistry

Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth, yet substantial uncertainty in the size and stability of this pool remains. Much of this uncertainty stems from the characterization of bulk den...

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