Reflecting on ESA2016 ‘Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropoce... Traveling back from the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Ecolog...

Reflecting on #ESA2016: Novel ecosystems in the Anthropocene: jecologyblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/esa_2016_inte... interviews with me, Emily Farrer, and Charlie Canham

Is there an #ESA2016 conference crud or did I just get lucky?

nice work adrienne, matt & andrea representin'...lots of interest in the MANE framework #ESA2016 #thefungidontlie

Day 190: Sudden onset of pre-talk jitters at #esa2016! I guess adrenaline helps? #365scienceselfies

and with Midgley's mic drop, ESA out. fun meeting, but hope you're not one of the cities chosen for the rotation Ft. Laudedale #ESA2016

Flight delayed so I'll be hanging around FLL terminal 3 for a couple of hours. You too? Say hi! #ESA2016

#ESA2016 @ESAedu REEFS #ignite talks followup 4 @su_inquiry idea 2 translate mol ecology 2 con bio w Up-Goer #hard

If you ever wanted to experience the last ice age first-hand, come to Ballroom C. #ESA2016

.@Briggs_Lab_UCSB using stochastic models to show that once #Bd is established, one-time interventions very hard to make work. #ESA2016

Murcia: Forget novel ecosystems. The important question is: how does ecological function changes as a result of species shifts? #ESA2016

Murcia: What is the goal? Restore? Rehabilitate? Reclaim? Recover? A novel ecosystem framework doesn't fit with all goals. #ESA2016

Murcia: Watershed processes in Costa Rica caused an increase in cattails. Is that a novel ecosystem if the cattails are native? #ESA2016

Murcia asked locals in the tropics what their restoration goals are. All focused on dynamic processes, like water or wildlife. #ESA2016

Murcia: What does a novel ecosystem even mean in the context of a diverse and dynamic rainforest? #ESA2016

Murcia: Tropical forests are incredibly heterogeneous both spatially and temporally; restoration isn't about a single state. #ESA2016

Murcia: Restoration attempts to return an ecosystem not to a previous state, but to a historic trajectory. An important difference! #ESA2016

Murcia: Policymakers have national restoration plans, and there is difficulty incorporating the concept of novel ecosystems. #ESA2016

Joe Hoyt: In China, #WNS doesn't persist in summer on cave walls + bat mortality is low. Testing site treatments in U.S. to imitate #ESA2016

Murcia: The biggest concerns of Latin American managers: climate change, drought and desertification, biodiversity loss. #ESA2016

Carolina Murcia gives the last talk of our symposium, bringing us from theory into practice. #ESA2016

The Richmondian Invasion 500 million years ago suppressed speciation, which is a lesson for the Anthropocene. - @alycia_stigall #ESA2016

Mass extinctions can result from reductions in speciation without increased extinction, like the Late Devonian. @alycia_stigall #ESA2016

An organism can experience a contraction of its niche breadth even as it's expanding its geographic range. @alycia_stigall #ESA2016

Geographic space is a 2-D expression of an organism's realized niche. Environmental space is n-dimensional. @alycia_stigall #ESA2016

Cool! @alycia_stigall throws paleoenvironmental variables like wave energy or storminess into a Maxent SDM. #ESA2016

Fossils are preserved in rocks: rocks tell you about the environment (water depth, storms, wave conditions). @alycia_stigall #ESA2016

Alycia Stigall gives a great talk. Very accessible to a non-paleontology audience, totally relevant to contemporary ecology. #ESA2016

More generalist marine species with the largest ranges were best able to persist following the invasion. -@alycia_stigall #ESA2016

.@DiseaseEcology: Interventions that support population can weaken evo rescue. Target pops which are too small for evo rescue. #ESA2016

I'm amazed that we can reconstruct storm tracks and ocean conditions from 500 million years ago. So cool! @alycia_stigall #ESA2016