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Zach Urness @oregonoutdoors.bsky.social · 4d

Drought and insects have killed an unprecedented number of Oregon’s Douglas fir trees during the last decade, costing billions in timber value, damaging infrastructure and ramping up wildfire danger.

What is Douglas fir dieback? Where is it happening? What is being done? tinyurl.com/5n9amvx6

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 7d

Effects of Soil and Atmospheric Drought on Intra-Annual δ13C Patterns in Tree Rings https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaf120

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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 7d

Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026!
Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!

wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...

Wilkes Center Postdoctoral Program - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy

Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...

wilkescenter.utah.edu

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Do not miss the chance to submit your abstract to the European Conference of Tropical Ecology at Passau! The Call for Abstracts will stay open until 14 October 2025. 🚨

There are 18 exciting Thematic Sessions and one Free Session you can choose from.

Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 The Call is OPEN!
Share your tropical research at #ECTE2026 in Passau – early bird registration & abstract submissions are now live 🌿

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts: 14 October 2025
🔗 www.conftool.net/gtoe2026/

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 13d

@Blueskyverse!

if you are interested in **plants and how they may live without water** join this fantastic virtual symposium organized by our NSF WATER AND LIFE INTERFACE INSTITUTE BII

- is free, and fun ;)

REGISTER HERE 👇
www.walii.science/virtual-symp...

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Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra.bsky.social · Jul 26

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that.

This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.

jenheemstra.com/book

Picture of a smiling person holding up a copy of a book.

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Trevor Keenan @trevorkeenan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Come join us for the #ameriflux annual meeting, October 22-24 in Tuscon Arizona. Budgets might be tight, but community support is invaluable, and that's what this year's meeting is all about.

Abstracts are due next week. Check out the details here: ameriflux.lbl.gov/community/am...

Group photo from the AmeriFlux 2024 annual meeting, Berkeley CA

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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · Jul 25

It seems like loggers or logging companies would have known this, but maybe not.

It makes me curious.

Does anybody know if land with red pines was worth less than that dominated by white pines or whether logging crews preferred white pine over red pine because of this reason? (8/8)

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Programmer in Ecological Modelling

Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72

shorturl.at

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · Jul 22

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

M O I L A B - Join us!

Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

www.moilab.science

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CREAF @creaf.cat · Jul 22

💥 Guess what? 💥 In ecology, small details like #micronutrients can have large effects. Actually, they can profoundly IMPACT the #biodiversity beneath our feet.

How?

CREAF carried out a new studi un Frech Guaiana to study how micronutrients effects soil biodiversity.

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Pieter Zuidema @pieterzuidema.bsky.social · Jul 22

What tree rings tell us about large-scale air movements. 14C records from Cameroonian trees (growing on the Northern Hemisphere) reveal that CO2 they absorb originates from other side of equator. Study lead Guaciara Santos; tree rings @petergroen.bsky.social.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tropical Central African bomb radiocarbon reveals antiphase air-mass atmospheric fluxes and vegetation-growth relationships

To achieve more accurate Earth system model projections of diverse climate scenarios, researchers need observation-based data on the movement of carbo…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · Jul 19

Trying to develop predictive theory for how biology works in the ocean? Interested in unifying traits? Keen to hang out in a beautiful place with amazing people? Consider joining us in a couple of weeks at the 7th #TraitBasedApproaches workshop in Asilomar! carnegiescience.edu/seventh-trai...

Seventh Workshop on Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life

The 7th Workshop on Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life will bring together scientists to discuss how functional traits shape marine ecosystems, using experimental, statistical, and modeling approach...

carnegiescience.edu

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Andrea Paz @andreapaz.bsky.social · Jul 15

A bit late to sharing our newest paper led by Yohana Jimenez !
A global regionalisation of tree-inhabited ecosystems based on tree functional traits.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Global Regionalisation of Tree Functional Capacity

Aim Understanding the global distribution of tree functional diversity is essential for predicting ecosystem responses to environmental change. Traditional biogeographic regionalisations classify ec.....

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William Hammond @wmhammond.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25
@agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Janet Donavan 🛟 @janetdonavan.bsky.social · Jul 13

I am so sad about this. The North Rim lodge area was one of my favorite places on earth. My cover photo was taken from the deck there last year…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wildfires destroy historic lodge on Grand Canyon’s North Rim, park says

Grand Canyon Lodge consumed by White Sage and Bravo Dragon fires, that have collectively burned more than 45,000 acres

www.theguardian.com

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Laynara F. Lugli @laylugli.bsky.social · Apr 14

Come work with us @AmazonFACE! We have 4 postdoc positions open:
1) Wood Traits and Growth Relationships
2) Impacts on Biogeochemical Cycling
3) Vegetation Modelling – hydrological/hydraulic processes
4) Functional Traits related to Photosynthesis
More info: amazonface.unicamp.br/oportunidade...

Oportunidades - AmazonFACE

O AmazonFACE está com quatro vagas de pós-doutorado disponíveis. Veja abaixo mais informações

amazonface.unicamp.br

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · Jul 9

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Open Positions

bpp.oregonstate.edu

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jul 3

A lively debate on whether agroecology can help us achieve social wellbeing and conservation in the tropics, the short answer is yes, but it is also a socially, culturally, and politically complex question #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thought provoking address by Juan Posada on biodiversity credits, an emerging tool for improving, maintaining, or preventing loss of biodiversity #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fantastic opportunity to catch up with my fellow committee members at the #ATBC2025 conference - we usually only see each other over zoom!

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Inspiring keynote speech by Dr. Berta Martin-Lopez on the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and the importance of relational values in conservation science - a valuable perspective for the #ATBC2025 conference

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Fascinating question, and I wonder about external influences because Son de Oaxaca is highly influenced by Caribbean musical structure #ATBC2025 🎸🌴

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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · Jun 26

Heading to Oaxaca for #ATBC2025 ? Make sure you stop by our symposium for all things leaf temperature, heat tolerance, and tradeoffs across climate gradients 🌿💧🌡️

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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations! That sounds like a great gig!

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