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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 3d

🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #ﬁre regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

A functional trait perspective on restored temperate #grassland responses to changing winter insulation & managed disturbance by fire

By Katherine Charton et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany

Effects of management type and timing and winter snow manipulations on snow and litter insulation during winter and predicted associations with plant functional trait syndromes.

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Sep 8

If interested and you'd like more information, check out the interest form here: forms.gle/HAyScFm2QrfW...

And please share widely!

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

A grassland on a sunny day near Boulder, CO

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Jun 17

🌱🔥 Grassland fires are becoming more frequent and more dangerous across the country. Ecologist Katharine Suding has spent her career understanding the ecosystems that produce them. She shares insights in a Q&A www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Rainy spring may be bad news for fire season. Here’s what you can do about it

Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.

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audhalbritter.bsky.social @audhalbritter.bsky.social · May 8

Our article on "Marine-derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities" is finally out 🐧🦆🌱🌾💩🌊🏔️:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Marine‐derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities

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

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · May 5

There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.

Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Apr 18

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Apr 19

Our department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!

Greenhouse Manager

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Apr 18

Job ad: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Please share with anyone who might be interested and reach out with questions!

Research Scientist I

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Apr 18

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hi! 👋 We are scientists studying Earth & environmental systems at CU Boulder. Our name = cold/high places, but these days we work from tropics to poles, incl. the world ocean. Follow us for
🧊 Cold regions
⌛ Past climate
🏔️ Earth surface processes
💨 Atmospheric gases
🌱 Ecological change
& lots more!

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thanks Robert!

Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Jan 11

Thank you! It's been a pleasure working in INSTAAR the last few years!

INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 @instaar.bsky.social · Jan 10

🏆 Congrats again to JONATHAN HENN @hennhouse.bsky.social for winning a CU Boulder RIO 'outstanding postdoc of the year' award! Lots of competition & only 2 recipients! Advised by K. Suding & @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social
➡️ Read our recent conversation with Jon www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

A conversation with Jonathan Henn, 2024 CU Boulder postdoc of the year

Jonathan Henn has quickly become an eminent plant ecologist with work on alpine plant communities and grassland wildfires. He reflects on his research journey

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Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social · Jan 2

Excited to share our new paper - plant metabolomics provide an additional trait dimension in community assembly to better understand how niche selection changes along environmental gradients.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A collaborative project led by @hennhouse.bsky.social

Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities

Studies of community assembly often explore the role of niche selection in limiting the diversity of functional traits (underdispersion) or increasing the diversity of functional traits (overdispersi....

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Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social · Oct 26

Excited to share our new synthesis of global change experiments from the Niwot LTER

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We had a great team and great leadership from Jon Henn!

Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits

Predicting the effects of global change on plant species and communities is a critical challenge as global change drivers accelerate and intensify. We used functional traits to determine whether ther...

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi Markus, could you please add me? Thanks!

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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · Nov 10

Hi Brian, thanks for putting this together, if you could add me, I'd appreciate it!

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Ellen Damschen @edamschen.bsky.social · Jan 29

We have a LOT of opportunities for undergraduate student researchers this summer and beyond. Application review is starting! See top three blog posts for details and how to apply: damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu

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