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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Jul 8

New Rooted in Research highlighting our work on how fire, deer, and canopy gaps interactively change the forest seed bank:

Restoring future forests: how fire, deer, and canopy gaps shape forest seed banks and regeneration potential | US Forest Service Research and Development

At the Fernow Experimental Forest, scientists examined how prescribed fire, deer exclusion, and canopy gap creation applied individually and in combination influenced seed bank diversity and compositi...

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · May 26

High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->

The number of studies reporting the occurrence of each deer species, together with the different effects on woody vegetation that were studied. Note that the numbers in this matrix add up to more than the total number of studies (n = 455), as many studies reported more than one deer species present and more than one effect category.

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · May 12

New preprint of ours using the B4WarmED experiment to 1) Test how warming and rainfall reduction influence litter decomp of 8 temperate-boreal tree species and 2) How ambient- and warm-grown litter of the same species decompose in different warming environments

Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️

Direct and indirect interactions among warming, water, and growing condition slow decomposition rates of temperate-boreal tree litter

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · May 5

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:

Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

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Northwest RISCC Network @nwriscc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Hi Bluesky! 👋 Let us introduce ourselves!

The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management.

Check out this 🧵 to learn more!

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An invasive European green crab is held by a rubber-gloved hand

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Dr. Jon Bennett @bennettecology.bsky.social · Feb 21

I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Feb 14

I just read this paper and honestly, it is so useful. Highly recommend folks in the climate adaptation space read it.

This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.

GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!

We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥

Our key findings are as follows ...

A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Feb 3

New story on our most recent @journalofecology.bsky.social manuscript: Get the inside scoop on how combined fire, deer, and treefall gaps influence the forest seed bank

A hidden forest future | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences

Smoke from a prescribed burn in a forest. What if the future of a forest was determined not by the trees we see, but by the seeds hidden beneath our feet? A groundbreaking study, recently published i...

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐
go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Dec 21

Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank.

"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Dec 21

🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank

Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Dec 21

🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank

Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 18

Interesting work! I’m super curious to see if this would hold up in a field experiment.

May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests

Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · Dec 18

By eating the leaves of young seedling oak trees, deer may help the plants survive drought conditions

www.science.org/content/arti...

During a baby oak’s first summer drought, a little leaf munching may help it survive

Deer may be seedlings’ unlikely allies when moisture is hard to come by

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

Join our faculty!

We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word!

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 7, 2025. Questions regarding this position...

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Dec 11

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 12

Woof. Glad you caught that

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 12

Done!

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 12

A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social

An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!

Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank

Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · Dec 4

Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.

#ecorestore #restoration

Community-Led Restoration @globalstewards.bsky.social · Dec 4

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed to the world’s biggest economies to allocate 1% of their annual military spending, a total of about $24 billion, to support massive reforestation around the world.
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/nati...

Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed dedicating 1% of the military annual budgets of the world’s biggest economies to support reforestation of around 15 million hectares (37 million ...

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Jeff Atkins @atkinsjeff.bsky.social · Dec 7

So at next week's #AGU24 I will be giving 2 talks:

- fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration

- using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance

And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪

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Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @mwcasc.bsky.social · Dec 6

Hello! We're new around here, so a short introduction 🎤

We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.

We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 6

My employer @ione-umn.bsky.social is now on Bluesky - Recommend giving 'em a follow to get the scoop on some of the coolest environmental research and sustainability leadership on the block 🌎🧪🌐🌡️

Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎

environment.umn.edu

Institute on the Environment | Discovering Solutions to Earth's Greatest Enviromental Challenges

IonE is leading the way toward a future in which people and the environment prosper together.

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 5

Do other people add the Oxford commas back into their manuscript proofs? I feel like this stylistic point should be up to the authors...

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · Dec 5

For #WorldSoilDay, I want to share our recent paper that tested how deer 🦌 and canopy gaps 🍁 influence invasive earthworms 🪱

We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass

But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎

Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps

Despite the large body of theory concerning multiple disturbances, relatively few attempts have been made to test the theoretical assumptions of how and if disturbances interact. Of particular import...

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