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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 9h

Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. She is now switching to study plant communities at temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.bsky.social

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, please add me in. I study plant communities & plant growth using statistical models.

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 5d

🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure

Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 5d

🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure

Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 5d

I enjoyed hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social❗️🌐🌎

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 11d

Hi Ben, can you please add me to the list? Part of my research explores effects of different lan management approaches in forest ecosystems. Thanks!

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 18d

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems

In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 18d

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems

In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...

doi.org

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 20d

This is really cool. Will add to my Tropical Ecology class readings. Heliconia-humming bird relations are really interesting, particularly in the Caribbean!

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats Clayton!

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes. Forest is changing due to changing climate, which is a form of succession.

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nope. Treelines have been moving too (so me more, some less), but the upslope movement will be limited by rocky substrates and eventually the height of the mountains…

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 6

Some high-elevation conifers in our region appear to be migrating to higher, cooler elevations as the climate warms, but lower elevation temperate deciduous tree species are not. Our new study aims to explain some of the reasons why that may be the case.

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 6

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 🌎🌐🧪

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 1

I guess it is the other kind of plant. Funny when that happens with literature searches. 😂

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats!

Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 18

A lovely visit to Baltimore @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods @ #SERC w/great info on #NEON. Our lab had 4 presentations & we are now ready for a new semester @sunyesf.bsky.social

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bald-botanist.bsky.social @bald-botanist.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s time to abandon pyrrhic victories against wildfires and embrace pyric- management that utilizes fire to improve the health of plants, animals, people, and their shared environments.

Special thanks to all of my coauthors for their assistance with this work!

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Pyrohealth synchrony: integrating wildland fire into One Health to benefit plants, animals, ecosystems, and people

Abstract. One Health's interdisciplinary approach has been effective at the nexus of human and animal health but often overlooks environmental health, incl

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 12

Adding the 4th neat presentation @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social by our lab, lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now research ecologist @appmtnclub.bsky.social. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm 🌎🌐🧪

Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Check out our lab’s presentations @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting in Baltimore if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm) 🌎🌐🧪

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 11

It is!

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Indeed. It’s what it is…

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Check out our lab’s presentations @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting in Baltimore if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm) 🌎🌐🧪

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks!

Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 9

🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins @sunyesf.bsky.social for her honorable mention 3rd place young scientist oral presentation award @iavs5.bsky.social meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mtn of New York State 🌎🧪

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Oral Presentation Award - International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)

Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist - student, or holder of an advanced degree (undergrad/Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD) within three years of completion of his/her degree - who has made the most outstanding oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association. The winner (first prize) is awarded 1000€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meetings of the Association. Winners of the first prize in the Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award in any of the previous years cannot compete for the award in this category again.

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Aug 6

Congrats on this very nice article about the effects of the infamous 1988 Yellowstone wildfires 🔥 on 🌲 forest recovery (or the lack of it in places)- the doctoral research of @nathankiel.bsky.social, currently a postdoc in my lab @sunyesf.bsky.social. Published in Ecological Monographs-well done❗️🧪🌎🌐

Mark Ranger @markr4nger.bsky.social · Aug 4

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. 🧪🌿🌎

Yellowstone’s 1988 Fires Eviscerated Forests. Will They Ever Recover? - Mountain Journal

While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why.

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