Fig. 1 We measured relative humidity every 5 min during the growing season in the Biodiversity, CO2, and Nitrogen (BioCON) experiment in central Minnesota in 2012 (Reich et al., 2001, Wright et al., 2015

#TansleyInsight: Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions

Alexandra J. Wright, J. English & C. Guimaraes-Steinicke
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Pretty much! Except for in some places for some species, more trees aren’t enough to overcome poor establishment conditions (such as for sugar maple where understory vegetation cover is locally high)

New article with @dovciak-lab.bsky.social, Jordon Tourville, and Jay Wason out in Journal of Biogeography: “Conspecific adult dominance interacts with microsite factors to influence forest regeneration patterns across elevation” doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

Martin Dovciak Believes in the Power of Botany | Meet the Faculty YouTube video by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Excited to share a short, behind-the-scenes video 🎥 interview highlighting my research & teaching in plant ecology @sunyesf.bsky.social—along with a look inside our greenhouses. Thanks to @tylerdorholt.bsky.social, Gavin Ellis, & Jason Kohlbrenner for the opportunity & support.
youtu.be/66tkQacmqAY

State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article by Nathan Kiel. Read about how land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.
@nathankiel.bsky.social #envhist #wisconsin #conservation

Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social

I enjoyed the opportunity to share my research with the Biology Department at Syracuse University this afternoon. Thanks Martin for the pictures and for excellent collaborations!

Done! ✅ A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲 site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by @nathankiel.bsky.social, a post-doc in our group @sunyesf.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪

Happy to see my photo on the cover of this issue of Journal of Ecology!

❄️🌳Early snowmelt around the base of deciduous trees ("thaw circles") is likely not the proximate cause of improved plant performance and greater local abundance of the spring-flowering herb, Dutchman’s breeches.🌿 @nathankiel.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/yUTaDe1

A selfie of me with the bald summit of Mt Moosilauke behind. Taken in June with the vegetation still green.

A selfie of me with the bald summit of Mt Moosilauke behind. Taken in August with the vegetation becoming brown.

From June to August on Mt Moosilauke. Earlier this year, we set out TOMST microclimate sensors. Now, we are conducting a seed addition experiment across temperate and boreal forests on the mountain. But there’s always time to summit!

Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery....

doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... which builds directly off of nathankiel.com/s/KielTurner...

To chime in as an author of the paper this was based off, a small percentage of a large area is still a large area! We’re talking >40,000 hectares (~160 sq. miles) of previously forested area that’s been slow to recover 30+ years after fire. Just adding more nuance to this discussion!

Yellowstone’s 1988 Fires Eviscerated Forests. Will They Ever Recover? - Mountain Journal While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why.

In 1988, wildfires razed one-third of Yellowstone National Park. While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why. 🧪🌿🌎

🌎🧪🌐 My amazing field team @sunyesf.bsky.social led by my CoPI & postdoc @nathankiel.bsky.social have just completed the first week of installing #Tomst sensors to quantify microclimate across temperate-boreal 🌳🌲forest ecotones on mountains in the northeastern US. Exciting and…more to come❗️

This is a challenging time for our community. That's why NAA is happy to make our Job Board FREE. Whether you are searching for your next career opportunity or are seeking quality candidates, the NAA Job Board is here to connect practitioners and employers. Link in profile.

New land conserved by the Southern Tier Land Conservancy! www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/souther...

The small, white, five-petaled flowers of trailing arbutus.

A cluster of sunlit trailing arbutus, with small white flowers set against a mossy background.

Happy International Plant Appreciation Day! Here’s trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens) in bloom at Powder Mills Park in Rochester, NY.

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Hopkins on excellent MSc defense & seminar “Plants on the move: Tracking 60 years of vegetation shifts on Whiteface Mountain, New York State” @sunyesf.bsky.social. We celebrated hers & other lab members’ recent accomplishments @ Alto Cinco! Stay tuned for the papers! 🌲🪻⛰️

🏆 Congratulations to our new MS student, Danny Wehner, for receiving Lowe-Wilcox Graduate Fellowship at @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social for his field research on the effects of mycorrhiza 🍄 on tree seedling 🌱 establishment across montane-temperate forest ecotones. Well done Danny!

Social card with black background. The Botany logo sits in the top left corner. The copy in the bottom left corner reads 'A Canadian Science Publishing Journal'. The Canadian Science Publishing blaze emblem sits in the bottom right corner.

We're thrilled to share that Botany, a @cdnsciencepub.com journal, will be joining the BlueSky community soon! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare to connect, share, and engage with researchers and science enthusiasts in this exciting space. See you soon! 🌟 #ScienceCommunication #BlueSky

ahh I guess it is now Sitobolium… which is similarly fun to say

Dennstaedtia punctilobula and Tussilago farfara !

Correct! The idea is that species just south of New York/the northeast may migrate northward with climate change. Those whose southern range margin is already in the northeast could decline in abundance.

Curious about which tree species could become more abundant in the northeastern United States with climate change? What about those that could be forced out?

Check out this Shiny app! Current species ranges may help us infer future plant community change in the northeast and beyond.

Sitting around a campfire in the evening after a long day of field work in Yellowstone. Pictured (L-R): Zach, Nathan, and Eileen.

The team after sampling an area that burned in the 1988 Yellowstone Fires but hasn’t yet come back as forest. Pictured (L-R): Nathan, Eileen, Zach, and Madie.

The team standing beside two canoes before paddling out from a campsite on Yellowstone Lake to sample postfire forest recovery. Pictured (L-R): Eileen, Madie, Zach, and Nathan.

Selfie time! Happy ecologists in the field. Pictured (L-R): Nathan, Eileen, Madie, and Zach.

To collect these data, we visited some of the most remote corners of Yellowstone. By summer’s end, we hiked >150 miles (much of it off-trail) and climbed ~30,000 ft. This couldn’t have been done without the stellar work of Eileen Mavencamp, Zach Ausavich, and Madie DeMarco!!

Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand‐replacing fire Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery...

New paper in #EcologicalMonographs w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social & E. Mavencamp! Among sparse/non-forested areas 34 years after the severe 1988 Yellowstone Fires:

- ~1/2 appear “locked in”;
- Plant communities shifted to resemble meadows;
- Aboveground C repartitioned w/ 96% stored in dead wood.

Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes - Ecosystems In forests adapted to infrequent (> 100-year) stand-replacing fires, novel short-interval (< 30-year) fires burn young forests before they recover from previous burns. Postfire tree regeneration is re...

Our new paper in #Ecosystems! Short-interval #fires in lodgepole pine change aboveground N stocks (a lot) but not total ecosystem N, tho available NO3- goes up. #GreaterYellowstone #FireEcology #NSFfunded W/ @nathankiel.bsky.social C Cleveland, J Warren, R Heumann
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new Natural Area Journal just dropped! Stay tuned for article highlights... bioone.org/journals/nat...

More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity The effect of tree species richness on maximum stand density in forest plots had been suspected before, but it had hardly ever been taken into account in biodiversity–ecosystem–functioning studies. H...

Interesting contribution to a better understanding of the diversity–productivity relationship in forests, focusing on diversity-mediated increases in tree packing. Led by @xaviermorin.bsky.social, out in @journalofecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...