Rachel Jade Kuzmich
@thatracheljade.bsky.social
Interested in drivers, patterns, and impacts of forest change.
remote sensing + ecology
Postdoc at Norwegian University of Life Sciences | PhD at Queen's University (NSERC CGSD 🙏) | Hons BSc at Trent University
remote sensing + ecology
Postdoc at Norwegian University of Life Sciences | PhD at Queen's University (NSERC CGSD 🙏) | Hons BSc at Trent University
The second session is all about assessing and detecting stress effects. We are about halfway through with a great talk by @yuwenzhang6666.bsky.social #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The second session is all about assessing and detecting stress effects. We are about halfway through with a great talk by @yuwenzhang6666.bsky.social #DendroNet
Roman Zweifel and @daniellecreek.bsky.social showing the flexibility of different dendrometer models for different sized trees and branches #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Roman Zweifel and @daniellecreek.bsky.social showing the flexibility of different dendrometer models for different sized trees and branches #DendroNet
Demo time: dendrometer installation #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Demo time: dendrometer installation #DendroNet
Shoutout to the weather & fall foliage on campus @uninmbu.bsky.social at coffee break #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Shoutout to the weather & fall foliage on campus @uninmbu.bsky.social at coffee break #DendroNet
And just before coffee break, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social who is mixing things up geographically and sharing miombo tree growth dynamics research in Africa #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And just before coffee break, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social who is mixing things up geographically and sharing miombo tree growth dynamics research in Africa #DendroNet
Research speed talks are starting off with Gaby Inga Guillen, looking at tree growth responses to climate #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Research speed talks are starting off with Gaby Inga Guillen, looking at tree growth responses to climate #DendroNet
First keynote from Kathy Steppe at Universiteit Gent disentangling tree growth components 🙌 Understanding sap flow and tree growth is critical in the context of climate change #DendroNet
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
First keynote from Kathy Steppe at Universiteit Gent disentangling tree growth components 🙌 Understanding sap flow and tree growth is critical in the context of climate change #DendroNet
Free bees? Freebies.
April 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Free bees? Freebies.
Reposted by Rachel Jade Kuzmich
So, are you considering your next study system/species? Don’t forget to check your subconscious bias…what are we missing out on by only studying colorful/boldly patterned and geographically convenient species across the tree of life? This is all to say: don't forget about the drab&distant species!
April 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So, are you considering your next study system/species? Don’t forget to check your subconscious bias…what are we missing out on by only studying colorful/boldly patterned and geographically convenient species across the tree of life? This is all to say: don't forget about the drab&distant species!
5/🧵 we then examined the changes through time using metrics of unfilling, stability, expansion and overlap.
This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.
This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
5/🧵 we then examined the changes through time using metrics of unfilling, stability, expansion and overlap.
This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.
This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.
4/🧵 using PCA to represent niche, we could easily visualize that Chiffchaff niche grew through time.
And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.
And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
4/🧵 using PCA to represent niche, we could easily visualize that Chiffchaff niche grew through time.
And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.
And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.
3/🧵 we extracted lidar metrics describing horizontal (like canopy closure) and vertical (like mean height) woodland #habitat components at four time steps at Chiffchaff locations.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
3/🧵 we extracted lidar metrics describing horizontal (like canopy closure) and vertical (like mean height) woodland #habitat components at four time steps at Chiffchaff locations.
2/🧵 Species distribution models generally assume that the relationship between a species and their habitat is stationary, but there are a lot of reasons this might not be true.
Like population growth.
Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.
Like population growth.
Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.
April 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
2/🧵 Species distribution models generally assume that the relationship between a species and their habitat is stationary, but there are a lot of reasons this might not be true.
Like population growth.
Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.
Like population growth.
Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.