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Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Join us next summer in Missoula, Montana, for the North American Forest Ecology Workshop!
Calls for sessions and contributed abstracts, as well as registration and exhibitor opportunities, will be available soon at nafew2026.org!
Bag full of wild chanterelle mushrooms
The end result of a good morning in the forest
Fig. 3 Resource (here C and water) uptake, transport, and consumption shape resource distribution along the leaf-to-root axis, influencing C partitioning and plant functional traits under changing environmental conditions.
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(𧡠1/5) Distal to proximal: a continuum of drivers shaping tree growth and carbon partitioning
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
π Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research π
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An increment core from a black oak, showing the rays and vessel elements within each growth ring
Black oak tree core from the Sierra Nevada - data is not always beautiful but in this case, it is
Functional Traits From Imaging Spectroscopy Inform Patterns of Forest Mortality During Sierra Nevada Drought
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These are good days to be doing field work
Pollinator decline has captured global attention, but another plant-animal mutualism is quietly unraveling.
Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity article synthesizes global evidence on seed disperser decline and what it means for plant biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and climate adaptation. π§΅
Three common inferential errors when investigating context dependence in ecology. Consider a test of context dependence in its most basic form: a 2 Γβ2 factorial experiment, measuring an ecological response Y, to the crossing of factors X and Z, each with two levels. The analyst fits a statistical model with an interaction term to the data: Y ~ X + Z + X Γ Z, to test for and quantify context dependence. Three inferential errors are possible when the measurement scale or symmetry of the interaction are overlooked: detection and magnitude (Type D), sign (Type S) and misidentification of underlying processes (Type A).
Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Please check out our new review in BioScience!
We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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Interested in using NEON data to answer big questions in ecology?
Check out their three day conference centered around just that. Looks like a great opportunity!
Apps due May 31.
www.neonscience.org/get-involved...
My understanding is that most schools get their GRFP money for the year in a big sum all at once. Unclear if that disbursement has happened already, but if not I imagine it may affect students.
I have written a small R-script to download all tree-ring data from the ITRDB (measurements and chronologies). Anyone can create a local copy, just in case the data might not be available anymore from @noaa.gov
github.com/RonaldVisser...
#dendrochronology #treering #opendata #share
Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...
I decided to start a #thread 𧡠of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
A screenshot of a Facebook post from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nationβs weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayerβequivalent to a single cup of coffeeβand yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
π¨ Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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Satellite Observations Reveal a Positive Relationship Between TraitβBased Diversity and Drought Response in Temperate Forests
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@helfenstein.earth
https://wapo.st/4gKs5FY
A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
A screenshot of the book's website
An image with the publication date: February 14, 2025
π The "Geocomputation with Python" book has been officially published today!
Dive into the world of spatial analysis and geospatial data with Python. ππ
Book's website: https://buff.ly/3NK2uBq
#geocompx #geopython #spatialanalysis
Come teach forestry in beautiful Missoula!
Assistant Teaching Professor (non-tenure track) of Forest Ecology and Management
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I'm happy to publish something I've been reporting for a while: a guide for how to fight the Trump-Musk power grab and win, with specific advice that you can start acting on *today*.
www.vox.com/politics/399...
Among the "woke dei grants" listed in Montana, there is one for improving the safety of clinical trials and one providing scholarships for rural and low-income students to pursue STEM degrees
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truly a sign of the times
Yes. βPeople are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.β
Lots of information and resources in this one.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
DC PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE OCEANS & CLIMATE
Tomorrow @vanhollen.senate.gov & the #Chesapeake Climate Action Network are holding a press conference/rally in defense of #NOAA, outside the Department of Commerce.
Tuesday, Feb 11, 2pm. 350 14th St NW. π§ͺππ¦
Deets: www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfu...
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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. π§ͺππ₯
Our key findings are as follows ...
