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.

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

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/... 🧪🌍🔥

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

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

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...

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

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!

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 🔑 🌎

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

Spread the word: Apps are open for the Institute on the Environment's Postdoctoral Fellowship 🧪🌎🌐 This postdoc has been truly transformational for me as I have gotten my feet wet in climate adaptation and social sciences while working in a cohort of 20 postdocs! Hmu if you have any questions :)

I've made a starter pack of those with interests in tree-ring science e.g. dendroclimatology, dendrochronology, dendroecology. Please let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed!) or to suggest others to add go.bsky.app/LXrT3xb

🍁 Forest Ecology feed ! The feed is open to any research related to forest ecology around the world, including landscape, conservation, social, policy, zoology, etc. 🌳 You can DM me to be added as contributor. Use the 🍁 or #forestecol in your posts to appear in the feed. bsky.app/profile/jere...

This is extremely cool

Excellent thread (using a v interesting paper) on how good science requires time and patience

I can’t explain it, but USGS scientists are the most pure. Those MFers are in it for the love of the game.

Proud to share this post about our newly published papers! A heartfelt thank you 💙to my co-authors for their dedication to making conservation a field where professionals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds feel a sense of belonging— this paper is a reflection of that commitment.

I don't usually promote datasets, but I feel like seed bank folks are always in need of data for meta-analyses. So, new dataset is below! Spoiler alert: It relates to our new paper where we factorially test how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, and canopy gaps 🌬️/🪚 change the seed bank. More to come 👀

Do you measure trees using fancy technology but not from particularly far away? If so then join us! Ask @mokros.bsky.social to be added. go.bsky.app/SvNVBfb

🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

In Canada, some provinces track when, where and how much…. But not every province and I don’t know if it is publicly available! One of our intended Canadian products from #WildFireSat is to classify the different types of fires detected (forest fire, Rx, ag and grassland). Cc @amonthei.bsky.social

Or even better: How many acres AND where? Would truly love for someone to figure this out 🔥 🌎

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

The Early Career Ecologists starter pack is officially completed! Please have a look and give a follow to each and every one of these amazing individuals And, to anyone who is still interested in joining, perhaps we can do part 2 in a bit? go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Here a pack of institutions relevant for the field of biodiversity governance. Both science and policy. Institutions only! Which ones are missing? go.bsky.app/DdDYBMT

Human-Wildlife Interactions: My grandfather and his buddies sneak onto the New Orlean’s City Park golf course at 4 AM every day and play with light up balls until the sun comes up. Today gramps couldn’t get to his bag bc of the “fairway lizard”which I take is a relatively common occurrence.

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Hi Bluesky! Let me introduce myself: I’m a Hmong woman and scientist studying temperate forest disturbances, currently focused on mature and old-growth forests, favorite disturbances are diseases 🍄‍🟫, taking a brief sabbatical from DnD 🐉 while I wrangle two toddlers

Great to see the influx of Aussie fire ecologists celebrating their excellent paper on the Black Summer fires! Here's a #fireecology starter pack that I set up. Let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/DzbHGbs @euanritchie.bsky.social @sjpyne.bsky.social @seanparks.bsky.social

Wow, STOTEN has been put "on hold" by Clarivate (Web of Science). Regular readers of my posts (if I have such things) will be well aware of my low opinion of STOTEN. Too many awful experiences as a reviewer where my concerns were ignored and junk published.

Within cohort variability in serotiny: i.e., two cones of the same age (+7 years), one open and the other closed (serotinous; saved for the next fire). Pinus pinaster, eastern Spain 🧪🌍🌿🌾🔥💚🪴 wildfire #PlantBiology

I say MOAR starter packs, Sam. Thanks for this one. I do some on forest ecology but there may be more worthy adds than me, my friend.

Starter packs who? Let’s do an old fashioned roll call. If you’re an ecologist 🧪🌎, chime in below! 👇 What do you study? What motivates you to do your science? Bonus points for including pics of a study species/system/etc.