Autumn berries in a coastal heathland, Nova Scotia

Wonderful display of #autumn #Ericaceae #berries this week in our #coastal #heathlands! Pictured:
#Vaccinium vitis-idaea #lingonberry,
V. angustifolium #blueberry,
Empetrum nigrum #crowberry,
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi #bearberry,
V. macrocarpon #cranberry,
Gaylussacia bigeloviana #huckleberry

Anatomical cross-section of a leaf with distinct epidermis, palisade, and spongy tissues.

Environmental versus phylogenetic control of leaf anatomical traits in #Fabaceae, across a continental scale

New #AJB research by Kexiang Huang, Ying Li, Jianming Wang, Wanting Liang, Keyu Zhao, Changsheng Long, Nianting Yu et al.

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#plantscience #legumes #phylogeny

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Beautiful updated #bryophyte #phylogeny!

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I'm so proud to share that my student Mythri has published her BSc thesis work! Mythri was super interested in plant-acid interactions, she found that specific acid types matter to plants, not just pH.
This is the 1st paper from work done in my own lab 🙂
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Botanists

The Goud Lab is at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Meeting #CSPB2025! Come check out the poster session this evening and talk to my students about their work on #plant #ecophysiology, #metal #contamination, #peatland #restoration, salt stress and #climatechange @smuscience.bsky.social

Severe #droughts are causing concern for #wildfires in #NovaScotia 🇨🇦. The hiking ban includes #forests, #barrens & #peatlands. I hear mixed opinions on whether to pause #fieldwork or seek exemptions and carry on. As a #PI with students part-way through their thesis projects, what would you do?

What are my students doing these days? Botanizing & more botanizing! I have such a great team of students this summer - fieldwork in Nova Scotia & Ontario & on-campus experiments. Beautiful herbarium vouchers & data so far. I’ll be using this platform to highlight them & their important work 🍃

Canadian wetlands are treasures that deserve protection Canada is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining wetlands. Despite decades of efforts, wetlands continue to be under threat around the world.

COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
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Coastal fieldwork is magic. The fog rolled in so thick, I could almost hold it in my hands. So many blooms and berries this week!

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

A perspective: some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves (Planta 153, 376–387) - Planta The Planta paper “Some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves” explored the relationship between gas exchange measurements of CO2 assimilation rate and...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... A perspective: some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves (Planta 153, 376–387) | Planta

Lake

The legacy of #acidrain still impacts lakes in SW #NovaScotia. Would liming #restoration help or hurt sensitive #Atlantic Coastal Plain lakeshore #flora? MSc Summer C is going to find out! We spent yesterday setting up transects for her field experiment in an acidified #lake @smuscience.bsky.social

Updated plant hardiness zones for Canada and assessment of change over time Scientific Reports - Updated plant hardiness zones for Canada and assessment of change over time

Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca

😀 Wonderful to see this project out in the world!

Proud of my grad student Rachel Kendall for this #peatland #plant #traits paper! Contrasting responses to climate & geography among shrub, sedge & #moss species. A fun project that connected across provinces & labs @wetland-ghg.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @smuscience.bsky.social

Just joined Bluesky today - I loved the academic twitter community I'd built over 10 years so much, and it's been hard to let go and move on... but I have great colleagues & friends that assure me it's nice here too 🙂 Time to start something new and hopefully reconnect with some familiar faces 🌱