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A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳

#ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter
July 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱

#ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter
June 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Excited to be part of this #ForestGEO collaboration—led by Thorsten Wiegand & Xugao Wang—exploring patterns, causes, and consequences of spatial aggregation in common and rare tree species across temperate and tropical forests. 🌳 🌴 🌐

#forestecology #TysonResearchCenter

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests - Nature
A unified framework is presented that integrates observed spatial patterns of individual trees in forests with ecological processes into a novel coexistence theory.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Ecology!

Applications are open for the #TysonResearchCenter Undergraduate Fellows Program at WashU’s field station, including opportunities to join our summer forest #biodiversity & #fireecology team 🌳 🔥

Applications due Feb. 15

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January 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Congrats to Anna Wassel on this new paper exploring how a locally dominant and regionally iconic temperate forest tree (pawpaw) alters understory plant biodiversity and community assembly 🌱

Led by the Pawpaw Patrol Team in the #TysonResearchCenter #ForestGEO Plot 🌳

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doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Pawpaws prevent predictability: A locally dominant tree alters understory beta‐diversity and community assembly
While dominant species are known to be important in ecosystem functioning and community assembly, biodiversity responses to the presence of dominant species can be highly variable. Dominant species c...
doi.org
January 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM