Year 14 of seed-trap collections complete!

🌳 Tyson Research Center ForestGEO Plot

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

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A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱

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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.

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. 🌳 🌴 🌐

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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

Reposts appreciated!

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...

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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