🍁🌎🌐 Happy to receive the most-cited 2024 paper distinction for our Ecological Monographs paper "Mycorrhizal fungi as critical biotic filters for tree seedling establishment during species range expansions" lead by my doctoral student Jordon Tourville w/advice by Tom Horton @sunyesf.bsky.social
🍁Spring is in full swing but early-flowering forest plants—“spring ephemerals”—like skunk cabbage, trout lily, & Dutchman’s breeches are facing warming climate & high deer pressure as I & others discuss in this new piece👇
#EARTHWEEK2026 @sunyesf.bsky.social
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Nicely done Pablo!
Spring is going strong in Upstate New York forest understories. 🍁
Thank you Mobassher.
🍁🌎🌐 Happy to receive the most-cited 2024 paper distinction for our Ecological Monographs paper "Mycorrhizal fungi as critical biotic filters for tree seedling establishment during species range expansions" lead by my doctoral student Jordon Tourville w/advice by Tom Horton @sunyesf.bsky.social
Eastern skunk cabbage blooms early as it melts its way out of winter. Its fleshy inflorescence generates heat, melts snow, & releases a pungent odor that attracts flies & beetles when little else is available. Often called a “famine food,” it’s toxic & required repeated boiling to become palatable.
Off course! Always happy to help! It’s a trully unique dataset. I will look forward to learn what you are finding re: dispersal syndromes.
🌎🌐🍁It’s been a pleasure to work with @pablolopezbust.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social! The data on dry tropical forest seed traits that he assembled @hulshof.bsky.social lab @ VCU with the help of our undergrads @sunyesf.bsky.social is invaluable. What a great experience for the students too!
I don’t know. They do seem to be baited and paid off by the plants…😉
🌎🌐🍁Exciting experiment completed! 🌱 Our lab helped MS student Daniel Wehner wrap up a greenhouse study on how arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum from understory plants may aid sugar maple seedling establishment in high-elevation ectomycorrhizal forests under climate warming. Stay tuned for results!
These are important ideas! I am looking forward to reading this!
Another amazing Tropical Ecology course in Panamá 🇵🇦!
From rainforests to reefs, students experienced incredible ecosystems & learned from Embera & Kuna communities. Always inspiring to see ecology come alive.
Thanks to Chuck Kroll, our partners & @sunyesf.bsky.social —can’t wait for the next one!
🍁🌎 Nice article by Danny Wehner on his research “An Uphill Battle: Seed dispersal & mycorrhizal constraints on the climate-driven upslope migration of tree species…” in Mitchelliana, The New York Flora Association Newsletter 37(1) 2026. Congrats Danny! @sunyesf.bsky.social
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Please welcome Noah Capello-MPS student in our group. Noah came to @sunyesf.bsky.social from @binghamtonu.bsky.social where he graduated summa cum laude w/Excellence Award for his capstone on transitional housing. He is now taking courses in ecology & management of invasive species & wetlands.
🌐🌎 Conspecific adult trees interact w/microsites to affect forest regeneration across climate-sensitive temperate-to-boreal forest biome transitions as shown by @nathankiel.bsky.social in an insightful analysis of our extensive forest demography data @sunyesf.bsky.social. Link in comments.
Thanks for featuring our work!
Adding to forest ecology feed 🍁
Good question. It’s an index approximating the cover by summing individual species covers. Tends to by higher and can by >100% on plot covered by multiple species…
🌐🌎 Conspecific adult trees interact w/microsites to affect forest regeneration across climate-sensitive temperate-to-boreal forest biome transitions as shown by @nathankiel.bsky.social in an insightful analysis of our extensive forest demography data @sunyesf.bsky.social. Link in comments.
Indeed. It will be nice for you to have other wetland colleagues in the group!
🌎Welcome our new PhD student-Wendy Owens Rios @wendyhaeco.bsky.social. Wendy is a lecturer at SUNY Geneseo developing her PhD @sunyesf.bsky.social on soil biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, & plant–soil interactions in forested wetlands impacted by ash decline due to non-native emerald ash borer.
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....
Yes, that is what we are thinking too/consistent with the literature.
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
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
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
Wow, congrats Angela and the team!
