So, what the heck happens to the Boundary Waters after a fire? What will grow back after the 2026 fires, and how is climate change shaping what comes next? To find the answers, check out our new Boreal Compass Substack where I write with Lee Frelich on the mysteries of fire in the Boundary Waters

The mystery of fire in the Boundary Waters

What the past tells us and what the future might hold

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Hot off the damn presses: New open access paper in Climatic Change on how we NEED to talk about maladaptation. We argue that maladaptation deserves rich and transdisciplinary dialogue to support awareness, organizational learning, and inclusivity.

We need to talk about maladaptation - Climatic Change

Climatic Change - Climate adaptation actions should help, not harm. However, adaptation efforts can backfire, increasing vulnerability to climate change—a phenomenon known as maladaptation....

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Only a few days left to apply for our #Climate and #Conservation Associate position!

Friends of the Boundary Waters@bwca.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re excited to grow our Climate and Conservation Department and are looking for someone who’s ready to dig into research, collaboration, and real-world climate solutions for the BWCA and northern MN. Details: www.friends-bwca.org/careers/ Applications close March 4, 2026.

We’re excited to grow our Climate and Conservation Department and are looking for someone who’s ready to dig into research, collaboration, and real-world climate solutions for the BWCA and northern MN. Details: www.friends-bwca.org/careers/ Applications close March 4, 2026.

Please share! I am positively stoked to be hiring a #Climate and #Conservation Associate. Together we will lay the foundation for Friend's Climate and Conservation Department and help support climate resilience in one the most special places on Earth.

Friends of the Boundary Waters@bwca.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re excited to grow our Climate and Conservation Department and are looking for someone who’s ready to dig into research, collaboration, and real-world climate solutions for the BWCA and northern MN. Details: www.friends-bwca.org/careers/ Applications close March 4, 2026.

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

New Rooted in Research highlighting our work on how fire, deer, and canopy gaps interactively change the forest seed bank:

High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->

New preprint of ours using the B4WarmED experiment to 1) Test how warming and rainfall reduction influence litter decomp of 8 temperate-boreal tree species and 2) How ambient- and warm-grown litter of the same species decompose in different warming environments Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

Hi Bluesky! 👋 Let us introduce ourselves! The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management. Check out this 🧵 to learn more! 1/3

I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍

I just read this paper and honestly, it is so useful. Highly recommend folks in the climate adaptation space read it. This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.

GrumpyUncleSean🔥@grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

New story on our most recent @journalofecology.bsky.social manuscript: Get the inside scoop on how combined fire, deer, and treefall gaps influence the forest seed bank

A hidden forest future | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Smoke from a prescribed burn in a forest.  What if the future of a forest was determined not by the trees we see, but by the seeds hidden beneath our feet? A groundbreaking study, recently published i...

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Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐 go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank. "Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥

Journal of Ecology@journalofecology.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank

Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...

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Interesting work! I’m super curious to see if this would hold up in a field experiment. May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests

Chris Nagano@charliesaito22.bsky.social · 2y ago

By eating the leaves of young seedling oak trees, deer may help the plants survive drought conditions www.science.org/content/arti...

Join our faculty! We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word! careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 7, 2025. Questions regarding this position...

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We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

Laura Dee@lauradee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!

Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank

Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it. #ecorestore #restoration

So at next week's #AGU24 I will be giving 2 talks: - fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration - using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪

Hello! We're new around here, so a short introduction 🎤 We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate. We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation

My employer @ione-umn.bsky.social is now on Bluesky - Recommend giving 'em a follow to get the scoop on some of the coolest environmental research and sustainability leadership on the block 🌎🧪🌐🌡️ Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎 environment.umn.edu

Do other people add the Oxford commas back into their manuscript proofs? I feel like this stylistic point should be up to the authors...

For #WorldSoilDay, I want to share our recent paper that tested how deer 🦌 and canopy gaps 🍁 influence invasive earthworms 🪱 We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎

Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps

Despite the large body of theory concerning multiple disturbances, relatively few attempts have been made to test the theoretical assumptions of how and if disturbances interact. Of particular import...

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This starter pack is getting some renewed attention, so I’ll be a bit more active in adding folks to it Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well

Sam Reed@sampowersreed.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know we have a million starter packs right now, but I think we need one for forest management & policy! I know I missed a ton of people, so if you'd like to be added, please message me (particularly you tropical foresters). Or, if you don't want to be on this list, lmk!