Undergrad student Dean Sheldon spent the summer surveying pollinators at Glacier NP, asking at what point invasive spotted knapweed stops being helpful in attracting more pollinators to an area 🐝 #undergradresearch #pollinators
Hear more abt our work at #ESA2025 on 3 alpine cushion plants at Thu posters 77 & 336. PhD student Tejaswini will investigate how #physiology and #phenology trade off, effects on #pollination & fitness. Undergrad Chris Cardella will share #thermalperformance curves for these spp based on #snowmelt
Up Wednesday at #ESA2025 is Meredith, who found that even adaptive phenological shifts aren't enough to maintain fitness in an alpine cushion plant. Catch her at 4:15pm in Evolution & Natural Selection 2, BCC342
Important new piece by Indigenous scholars—including ecologists @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social and @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (who is here at #ESA2025 this week)—who set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.
Next up at #ESA2025 is Madi Talley, who tested how fire management treatments affect pollinator visitation and pollination networks 🐝🔥 8:30am in Fire/Fire Management 2, BCC 337
#firemanagement #pollination
Followed by PhD student Dalton Brantley, who studies how lodgepole forest understories respond to increasingly shorter interval fires 🔥🌲 10:15am in Communities & Disturbance 4 in BCC 338 #ESA2025 #wildfire #disturbance #plantdiversity
First up at #ESA2025 is Julie Cox, who noticed lots of floral variation in an endemic species found in Missoula MT. Julie is looking out for MS and tech opportunities! Find her poster on Monday in PS06-099 #functionaltraits #endemic
The Zettlemoyer lab is taking on #ESA2025!
The Zettlemoyer lab studies plant ecology & evolution in harsh environments, including alpine tundra, windswept ridges, and burned subalpine forests
