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Lars Brudvig

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Plant, restoration, and landscape ecologist https://www.brudviglab.com/ (he/him)

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Apr 14

Call for papers:

Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions

Submission deadline 30 April 2026; more details in the link

As one of the Guest Editors, I'm happy to help answer questions

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Ecological Applications Call for Papers Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions

<em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 22h

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow!

These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here:

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 2d

@martin-nunez.bsky.social - so sorry, I just realized I tagged the wrong Martin Nuñez! Better late than never and I can also now relay an update. I enjoyed your book, have used the chapter on AI in a lab meeting, lent out my copy to a student, and bought a copy for another student.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 10d

Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors

A gulf fritillary visiting pinkscale blazingstar

A grasshopper visiting pinkscale blazingstar

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 11d

Great day today, working in the SRS Fragmentation Experiment. We're conducting our 19th field season, to understand long-term consequences of fragmentation for populations of longleaf pine savanna groundlayer plants species

#demography #fieldwork

A view within the SRS Fragmentation Experiment

A sea of pink pin flags marking herbaceous plants

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 11d

Amazingly, this is one of the species I was working with today! Part of a long-running study into habitat fragmentation effects on ground layer herb populations

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting - sounds like spots around the oak openings (near Toledo) and Allegan (western MI). Thanks for these tips - I'll have to do some looking!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 20d

Cool find. I'll have to keep an eye out for this one in my neck of the woods. I've not seen it before, but there's an herbarium record from within a couple km of my house

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 20d

New paper: Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures

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Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures

Regeneration of drought-tolerant and fire-adapted (pyrophytic) trees like oaks (Quercus spp.) is broadly limited by mesophication – a positive feedbac…

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 21d

Hey @martinnunez.bsky.social - guess what arrived arrived today? Looking forward to reading and sharing with students!

Holding a book: A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing, by Martin Nuñez

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 23d

New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), and black-eyed Susan, starring together in the front yard pocket prairie

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 25d

Another year of NutNet in the books @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oak savanna, with lots of tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris) in bloom - at the Chipman Preserve, near Kalamazoo, MI

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 22

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium!

This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution

Please consider applying and help spread the word!

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'll send you an email, Mark - thanks!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks - it's a past student's research plot and I'm happy to have it here!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks, Tom

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 18

That would be awesome!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks, Mark! I'm glad you were able to visit...and sorry I missed you, when you did (if I remember right, I was on vacation at the time, myself, visiting Door County!)

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 17

Lots blooming right now in the front yard pocket prairie, including black-eyed Susan, blue vervain, false boneset, and (just coming online) stiff goldenrod

False boneset (Brickellia eupatorioides)

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 16

P.S. I don't usually do field work on the weekend, but yesterday was a (mostly) off day for me, so playing catch up today!

Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 16

Today I wrapped up the 16th year of vegetation sampling in our oak savanna restoration experiment!

In this study, we are testing the long-term ecological consequences of prescribed fire, fire with tree thinning, and no management, within fire suppressed oak savannas at the MSU MacCready Reserve

An oak savanna plot receiving prescribed fire and tree thinning management

An oak savanna plot receiving prescribed fire management

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 10

Monarch (Danaus plexippus) nectaring on butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today we wrapped up the 10th summer of vegetation surveys in our KBS prairie restoration (reconstruction) experiment, testing how the geographic origin and species diversity of seeds used to initiate restoration affects long-term ecological dynamics

@kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social

Purple coneflower, big bluestem, etc in a prairie reconstruction at Kellogg Biological Station

Yellow coneflower, big bluestem, etc in a prairie reconstruction at Kellogg Biological Station

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · Aug 7

Lots of insect activity in our front yard pocket prairie this evening, including bumblebees, ambush bugs, and dragonflies

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