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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Attention publishers: Announcing the Guidelines for Indigenous Data Governance in Scholarly Publishing

Join this session to learn more about the recently published Guidelines and how you can help!

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to share a new lab @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social paper: "Drought Response in Three Conifer Species Detected by Sap Flow and Proximal Thermal Remote Sensing" led by the amazing Daphna Uni w/ @mostafaj.bsky.social others @uarizona.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Sierra Jech @sierrajech.bsky.social · Aug 21

New paper out in the American Journal of Botany with some of my science role models, @michalaphillips.bsky.social @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @kristinayoung.bsky.social and also Cara Lauria and Ana Giraldo-Silva.

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Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate

Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy to share our recent paper using Ecological Site Groups to better understand plant community changes &their relationship with wildfire & drought on the Colorado Plateau. Part of a fantastic project working with land managers & scientists alike.

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy to share a new lab @newphyt.bsky.social
paper, Fangyue Zhang et al., "Temporal repackaging of rainfall magnifies negative impacts of vapor pressure deficit on semiarid ecosystem productivity" @uarizona.bsky.social
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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Aug 5

Fantastic paper by Scott Ferrenberg & others exploring the role of nurse plant shading vs soil fertility for dryland plant recruitment and diversity👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nurse plant shading is more important than soil fertility for dryland plant recruitment and diversity

The significant influence of shading highlights the role of environmental factors in shaping plant communities of this dryland system, while the evidence of seed depletion combined with the influence....

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 3

Grazing Modulates the Multiscale Spatial Structure of Dryland Vegetation

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Don't miss it! 👇!

Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · Jul 22

Way excited for Savannah's defense next week!

If you love biogeochemistry and thinking about potential for soil carbon management, mark your calendar for Monday, July 28th @ 11:00 AM MDT (or stop by campus if you're in Moab 😉)

Public Zoom Link: usu.zoom.us/j/8144285688...

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Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · Jul 22

Way excited for Savannah's defense next week!

If you love biogeochemistry and thinking about potential for soil carbon management, mark your calendar for Monday, July 28th @ 11:00 AM MDT (or stop by campus if you're in Moab 😉)

Public Zoom Link: usu.zoom.us/j/8144285688...

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Jul 23

Who is doing #biocrust work in the alpine in North America? Let's talk! I want more field sites here 👇🤩

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Jul 15

When we tell people that #biocrust can be a dominant form of ground cover in drylands, it can be hard to picture. Here's a perfect example from Canyonlands National Park in Utah showing how extensive biocrust cover can be!

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our new review is out led by @michalaphillips.bsky.social examining #biocrust recovery amidst climate change 👇

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate

Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Jun 17

Climate change could shift the geographical distribution of biocrusts in the Qaidam Basin 📊🌏

Uses high-resolution biocrust maps to establish a monitoring & management baseline. Results underscore the importance of considering spatial heterogeneity 🌐🧪

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IngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · Jun 17

Land is life.

But with 2 billion hectares of land degraded globally, restoring ecosystems & building drought resilience has never been more urgent.

On #DesertificationandDroughtDay find out how we can restore land.

Together, we can be #UNited4land: www.unep.org/gef/focal-ar...

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · May 25

"Now, there is only a trickle of water following the driest winter in decades."

Rippling effects of #globalchange in #drylands

Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · May 20

After a dry winter, Syria adds a severe water crisis in the capital to its many troubles, report @apnews.com’s Omar Sanadiki and Ghaith al-Sayed.

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Syria's driest winter in nearly 7 decades triggers a severe water crisis in Damascus

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more than six decades.

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · May 23

This blend of models and field experiments to optimize restoration outcomes can help save money and increase positive results towards land degradation neutrality and achieving sustainable development goals. @restorationecology.bsky.social @mduniway.bsky.social Nick Webb, Brandon Edwards

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · May 23

Our newly published paper was really exciting to work on because it uses models to help determine how effective a restoration action might be at meeting a goal (in our case wind erosion reduction) BEFORE costly efforts are implemented onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Optimizing the effectiveness of connectivity modifiers to reduce dryland degradation

Dryland degradation from unsustainable land use and increasing aridity often manifests as bare, interconnected areas that facilitate the loss or redistribution of resources (soil, seeds, and nutrient...

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · May 18

Thank you, Fernando!

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Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi @adarrouzetnardi.bsky.social · May 16

Nice new paper out by @kristinayoung.bsky.social This was one of her dissertation chapters and some offshoot work from our fungal loop project.

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Biocrust Mosses and Cyanobacteria Exhibit Distinct Carbon Uptake Responses to Variations in Precipitation Amount and Frequency

This study investigates carbon uptake in biological soil crusts (biocrusts) under varying precipitation regimes, testing pulse-response strategies in moss- and cyanobacteria-dominated crusts. The res...

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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...

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks for helping spread the word about this!

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Jeff Dukes @dukesjeff.bsky.social · Apr 23

For those interested in the history of ecology: a nice Earth Day piece on the scientific legacy of the Desert Laboratory in Tuscon and the role that Carnegie Science played in supporting early ecological research. 🧪🌐🌍🌎🌏🌵
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The Desert Laboratory: Carnegie Science's Pioneering Role in American Ecology

Carnegie Science's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona served as an intellectual hub where pioneering ecologists helped transform the emerging discipline of ecology from descriptive natural history i...

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Apr 18

Science is still happening! Hopeful that our new paper can serve as a resource for those seeking or making digital seed-based restoration tools: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Send me a message if you need access @coleoptara.bsky.social @restorecal.bsky.social @magdagarbowski.bsky.social

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Apr 15

Biocrusts—tiny communities of fungi, bacteria, and algae on dryland soils—have fascinated scientists for decades A new review in @cambridgeup.bsky.social #CPDrylands by Rosentreter & Eldridge explores key trends in biocrust research in North America doi.org/10.1017/dry....

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