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Anping Chen

@dranpingchen.bsky.social

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plant and ecosystem ecologist @ Colorado State University, nature enthusiast. https://apchenecologylab.weebly.com

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Does @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 's Ecolog-L listserv stop working? Haven't received any messages for about one week.

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Aug 16

Water use efficiency (iWUE) is related with water availability. Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper shows that this relationship has been strengthened over the past decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ensheng Weng @wengensheng.bsky.social · Nov 27

I made 11,160 model runs with our BiomeE in this paper. It was done for many times, with different model settings to test model assumptions and parameterization. Eventually, we only chose one set of the runs in the results. Toy models are useful!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Effects of water limitation and competition on tree carbon allocation in an Earth system modelling framework

A key challenge for Earth system models is improving the representation of plant functional diversity. Experiments with vegetation demographic models show that water limitation leads to divergence be...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 28

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jun 17

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎

“Why Are We Funding This?”

Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.

www.americanscientist.org

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jun 10

Agree that if you submit one paper as a first or senior author, you should do two reviews.

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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · May 31

There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/

Map of the United States showing Forest Service research lab locations as well as experimental forests and other offices.

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · May 13

Congratulations, friend!!🎉🎉

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Apr 30

Losing them also loses $: just think about weather disaster impacts on economy and public safety.

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!

Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.

“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...

www.sltrib.com

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...

Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year

Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.

theconversation.com

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Apr 20

For people whose institution does not subscribe to Nature Plants, here is a shared link: rdcu.be/eigV4

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Apr 20

For people whose institution does not subscribe to Nature Plants, here is a shared link: rdcu.be/eigV4

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Apr 20

It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Seth Munson @smmunson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events - Nature Plants

Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...

www.nature.com

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Mar 11

Our March issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes

Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover image of the March issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing a micro-CT scan of a humpback anglerfish. The cover headline reads "Deep-sea diversification"

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Mar 6

Congrats, Laura! Are you going to talk about this paper (or the EL paper, or both) for your seminar next month?

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Feb 28

Congratulations to you and Malin!! Very interesting work!

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Feb 20

Welcome to 1984

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Feb 5

I'd like to be included. Thanks!

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #8 Jan 20-27, 2025 - 33 posts

✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈

👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...

🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Feb 1

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

A man jumping, under the words "Make Time For Joy"

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jan 31

January reading finished... reading is curing. #onebookamonth

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jan 31

The PDF link provided by Katherine is still downable. I can email you a copy of it still not working.

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thanks! Saved a copy while the PDF is still available.

Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jan 28

In a newly published Agricultural and Forest Meteorology paper, we developed a method that successfully migrates eddy covariance based carbon flux measurements to thousands of meteorological stations. Led by postdoc Dr. Wenqiang Zhang. Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bridging the gap in carbon cycle studies: Meteorological station-based carbon flux dataset as a complement to EC towers

The scarcity and uneven global distribution of eddy covariance (EC) towers are the key factors that contribute to significant uncertainties in carbon …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark A. Anthony @anthomycota.bsky.social · Jan 28

Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables

As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Jan 15

Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺

👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms

go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈

🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

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Anping Chen @dranpingchen.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thanks, Katherine. Never a fan of large labs at the size of 40-60 people if they are primarily grads and postdocs. Running a research lab is different than running a business, I guess.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 26

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

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