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Ellen Damschen

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Plant community, spatial, & global change ecology. Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Views expressed are my own. She/her. Lab webpage: damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Dec 12

How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?

We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪

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The Torrey Botanical Society @torreybotanical.bsky.social · Dec 12

Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here:

www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/

#botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

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Ellen Damschen @edamschen.bsky.social · Dec 5

We are hiring a full-time research manager to help launch a new field experiment to assess the role of seed traits and species composition on community assembly in restored tallgrass prairies! More details and application instructions are on our website: damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu/2024/12/04/h...

Hiring a Research Manager

The Damschen Lab in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is now accepting applications for a full-time Research Manager to implement a new community assembly an…

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Ellen Damschen @edamschen.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thanks for thinking of me and checking. Of course!

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · Nov 13

Germination habits in three ring-cupped oaks: radicle (embryonic root) exiting from beneath the cap in Q. delavyi and Q. kerrii, both quick to germinate; from the tip in Q. schottyana, which undergoes longer dormancy.

Great tubers on the two quick-germinating spp!

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Seed germination schedule and environmental context shaped the population genetic structure of subtropical evergreen oaks on the Yun-Gui Plateau, Southwest China - Heredity

Heredity - Seed germination schedule and environmental context shaped the population genetic structure of subtropical evergreen oaks on the Yun-Gui Plateau, Southwest China

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Ellen Damschen @edamschen.bsky.social · Oct 22

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...

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Ellen Damschen @edamschen.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congratulations Rob!!!

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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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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · Dec 12

I have a postdoc position in Landscape Ecology 🧪🌍
Please RP #BES2023
on identifying how surrounding landscape composition and historical management influence rates of plant community change and occurrence, today and in the future. Collaboration with CEH in UK. See alt text

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9 aerial photos of landscape change from 1945 to today
The project focuses on how rapidly and to what extent plant communities change depends surrounding landscape composition and habitat change over time. It is a cross-disciplinary project between community ecology and geography. The long-term goal is to understand how we avoid local species extinction where there are time lags because of historical landscape change and other global drivers
By using an unique re-survey data set from the UK it is possible to explore and systematically test hypotheses about how landscapes over time influence plant community change. Historical maps and aerial photographs will be used to determine habitat patterns and change in specific geographical location to investigate the possibility for developing methods to quantify ecologically important aspects of landscape history. The postdoc will work within the team of ECSTATIC project with collaboration with CEH in Lancaster university in the UK.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Jan 19

REU openings with the SRS Corridor Project to study fragmentation effects on plants and insects!

www.brudviglab.com/post/reu-ope...

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Dr Wernerehl @drwernerehl.bsky.social · Jan 21

Job opening for a #Botanist at a great #Herbarium at the Botany Dept. at UW-Madison (Wisconsin), a wonderful campus. Apply by 15 Feb 2024.

Herbarium Collections Manager - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: The Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) within the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks applicants for a permanent Collections Manager. With a collection of &gt...

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