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Timothy Martin

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Tree Ecophysiology Professor, University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences. Trees, forests, forestry. Posts do not represent my employer. Plant ecophysiology starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here is a useful guide for migrating away from the x-hole.
www.bluesky-migrate.com

Bluesky Migrate

This page serves a simple guide on how to migrate to Bluesky from X. All steps are optional, but you should really do the first two.

www.bluesky-migrate.com

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 19d

Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.

Top of a pine seedling with a small snake among the needles, looking at the camera.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 27d

Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Aug 27

8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.

Three deer look at the camera while standing in green grass underneath a pine overstory.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Aug 26

Jealous!

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Aug 21

1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Aug 3

My institution doesn't put their name on most of those types of vehicles. That way when it's parked in front of a bar there's less chance of embarrassing consequences.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Aug 1

Rainbow river, Florida.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 30

Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.

A group of people standing at the base of a large longleaf pine tree.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 24

A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.

Large diamondback rattlesnake obviously swollen from a recent meal.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 24

It ran toward the tree and perched on the trunk for about 30 seconds.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 23

Find the fox squirrel.

Fox squirrel on longleaf pine tree in northern Florida.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 22

Nice!

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Jul 22

Science funding tough to come by these days. This study was sponsored by Preparation H

NASA and Oxford Reveal Uranus's Unexpected Heat

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 17

Strong inference: he disproved H0 that the dog would immediately devour the cat.

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Fernando Ojeda @ojedacopete.bsky.social · Jul 10

Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 10

Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · Jul 9

I mentioned naval stores last week. Here’s another industrial use. Subfossilized resin from Agathis trees (#Araucariaceae) in New Zealand was prized for varnishes. Gum-diggers excavated tons of the stuff. 📷: An Old Gum Digger of Houhora, North Auckland, Archives of NZ CCBY2 #resin #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Vintage black and white photo of an older man sitting outside a small wooden shack. Around him are the tools of his trade (spade, digging rod) and a box of lumpy resin.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jul 6

Rock on, dark lord.

a pixel art drawing of beavis and butthead with acfoc on their shirts

Alt: Beavis and Butthead

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foresterbob @foresterbob.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today's forestry pic (running late), Sitka spruce trees on the Olympic Peninsula.
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic

A thick grove of tall spruce trees in the late afternoon sun. Ground cover is mainly ferns and other low vegetation.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 21

Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.

Open scallop with blue eyes located along the edges of its shell.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm not an expert but generally growing season burns are preferred for restoring and maintaining wiregrass and other understory plants. That's ~ start of thunderstorms in June until August-ish. Dormant season / winter burns I think are preferred for more difficult situations like high fuel load.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 18

This stand is close to 100 years old.

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 18

About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.

Forest with burnt understory and smoke in background.

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William Hammond @wmhammond.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 15

Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.

Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · Jun 7

Same!