Done! ✅ A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲 site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by @nathankiel.bsky.social, a post-doc in our group @sunyesf.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪

Happy to see my photo on the cover of this issue of Journal of Ecology!

❄️🌳Early snowmelt around the base of deciduous trees ("thaw circles") is likely not the proximate cause of improved plant performance and greater local abundance of the spring-flowering herb, Dutchman’s breeches.🌿 @nathankiel.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/yUTaDe1

From June to August on Mt Moosilauke. Earlier this year, we set out TOMST microclimate sensors. Now, we are conducting a seed addition experiment across temperate and boreal forests on the mountain. But there’s always time to summit!

In 1988, wildfires razed one-third of Yellowstone National Park. While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why. 🧪🌿🌎

🌎🧪🌐 My amazing field team @sunyesf.bsky.social led by my CoPI & postdoc @nathankiel.bsky.social have just completed the first week of installing #Tomst sensors to quantify microclimate across temperate-boreal 🌳🌲forest ecotones on mountains in the northeastern US. Exciting and…more to come❗️

This is a challenging time for our community. That's why NAA is happy to make our Job Board FREE. Whether you are searching for your next career opportunity or are seeking quality candidates, the NAA Job Board is here to connect practitioners and employers. Link in profile.

New land conserved by the Southern Tier Land Conservancy! www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/souther...

Happy International Plant Appreciation Day! Here’s trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens) in bloom at Powder Mills Park in Rochester, NY.

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Hopkins on excellent MSc defense & seminar “Plants on the move: Tracking 60 years of vegetation shifts on Whiteface Mountain, New York State” @sunyesf.bsky.social. We celebrated hers & other lab members’ recent accomplishments @ Alto Cinco! Stay tuned for the papers! 🌲🪻⛰️

🏆 Congratulations to our new MS student, Danny Wehner, for receiving Lowe-Wilcox Graduate Fellowship at @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social for his field research on the effects of mycorrhiza 🍄 on tree seedling 🌱 establishment across montane-temperate forest ecotones. Well done Danny!

We're thrilled to share that Botany, a @cdnsciencepub.com journal, will be joining the BlueSky community soon! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare to connect, share, and engage with researchers and science enthusiasts in this exciting space. See you soon! 🌟 #ScienceCommunication #BlueSky

Curious about which tree species could become more abundant in the northeastern United States with climate change? What about those that could be forced out? Check out this Shiny app! Current species ranges may help us infer future plant community change in the northeast and beyond.

New paper in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social & E. Mavencamp! Among sparse/non-forested areas 34 years after the severe 1988 Yellowstone Fires: - ~1/2 appear “locked in”; - Plant communities shifted to resemble meadows; - Aboveground C repartitioned w/ 96% stored in dead wood.

Our new paper in #Ecosystems! Short-interval #fires in lodgepole pine change aboveground N stocks (a lot) but not total ecosystem N, tho available NO3- goes up. #GreaterYellowstone #FireEcology #NSFfunded W/ @nathankiel.bsky.social C Cleveland, J Warren, R Heumann link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new Natural Area Journal just dropped! Stay tuned for article highlights... bioone.org/journals/nat...

Interesting contribution to a better understanding of the diversity–productivity relationship in forests, focusing on diversity-mediated increases in tree packing. Led by @xaviermorin.bsky.social, out in @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

2024 was an exciting year professionally - I defended my dissertation, moved back to the northeastern U.S., and began a post-doc position at my alma mater! All while spending time with wonderful friends and colleagues, old and new. I’m looking forward to what 2025 has in store 🌳🌲

Thanks for entrusting your work to us! Info about @ijpsjournal.bsky.social's fast-track submission option can be found here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp... #PlantScience

I'll be giving a free webinar Thurs, Dec 5, 7 p.m. Central time for the Minnesota Native Plant Society on the topics of #oak reproduction, #species, #hybrids, & #phylogeny / #treeOfLife, from my new book (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). Join us, and pls share! us06web.zoom.us/j/6977108818...

1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs

Thanksgiving in western New York!

Important finding for impact modelers by @kornhuber.bsky.social et al.: Climatic extremes change faster/ more severely than anticipated by climate models. The consequences anticipated with impact models (based on climate model-driven forcings) might thus be conservative. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Compared to EM trees, AM trees may be better adapted to thrive under the effects of global warming. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... Chari et al. November 2024 In Global Change Biology

“What the heart wants: adaptive significance of cordate leaf morphology in Arnica (Astersceae)” is out now in Western North American Naturalist! doi.org/10.3398/064....

Conveying results of #simulationmodels is tricky. We produced a video to help folks understand how #climatechange and #fire could affect the iconic landscape of Greater #Yellowstone. Would love to see this used for ecology classes and outreach. @ttkeller.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIp7...

Accepting graduate student applications for Ph.D. student in Fall 2025 to work on community assembly mechanisms and prediction in restoration of plant communities. damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu/2024/10/21/a...

🧪🌍📜New research award to our lab @ SUNY ESF to study "The effects of seed dispersal & seedling 🌱establishment limitations on climate-driven 🌦️ tree species 🌲🌳 range shifts in the northeastern U.S." together w/ @nathankiel.bsky.social & Laura Kenefic @ USFS❗🙂 Stay tuned for more details.

If a forest doesn’t come back after wildfire, what comes back instead? I’ve spent the last few years studying plant communities in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks to find out: www.nps.gov/articles/000...

New paper with Bill Romme and Monica Turner: “Snag-fall patterns following stand-replacing fire vary with stem characteristics and topography in subalpine forests of Greater Yellowstone”, out now in Forest Ecology and Management www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

All photos taken within one hour of each other

This was such a cool study, I threw out my planned schedule to write about this instead. Ecologists worked with art historians to find out if it’s possible to study landscape changes by looking at art from the nineteenth century. 🧪 🐡

Smith Fellowship application complete, now onto the next (and the next, and the next…)

Hi all! I’m a plant ecologist and PhD candidate in the Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology Lab at UW-Madison. Professionally I’m interested in forest disturbance ecology, understory plant communities, teaching, and science communication. Personally I love photography, hiking, and minor league baseball.