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Intraspecific trait variability in wild plant populations predicts neither variability nor performance in a common garden Dryland restoration requires plant materials capable of performing well despite difficult growing conditions. Selecting plant materials with higher intraspecific trait variability (ITV) may support s...

Trait variability can buffer populations against stress, but harnessing this for restoration is proving tricky. Lab alum Ella Samuel finds that diversity in seed source plant populations is not predictive of variability or performance in a common garden.
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Both about new ways to measure 📏🧮 #plant #traits across a #landscape responding to #climatechange 🌎🌦️🌡️

Opening up a lot of interesting questions about the consequences of past and future climate variability for evolutionary and ecological responses in riparian forest ecosystems already experiencing major declines...

And also complex patterns of genotype-specific plasticity that are not easily explained by selection in more predictably variable environments:

She found clear consequences of these traits for tree growth at the hot edge of Fremont cottonwood's range:

Iris Garthwaite, now also a PMF at the USGS, dug into lab techniques and image analysis for quantifying leaf venation and stomatal traits doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Her motivation to use new technologies and analyses in this system helps open up much larger-scale avenues for monitoring, predicting, and responding to climate change effects across the American Southwest!

And also that common spectral indicators of photosynthetic capacity decline as trees are planted in hotter temperatures than they have evolved to deal with:

She showed we can detect a tree's population of origin with high accuracy, even in a controlled environment:

Dr. Jackie Corbin, who now works on actually applying restoration principles with NRCS (as a PMF) used hyperspectral reflectance of Fremont cottonwood leaves growing in multiple common gardens and at home to detect genetic, environmental, and gxe effects on spectral traits doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Hyperspectral Leaf Reflectance Detects Interactive Genetic and Environmental Effects on Tree Phenotypes, Enabling Large‐Scale Monitoring and Restoration Planning Under Climate Change By growing the same locally adapted populations in reciprocal common gardens, we found that leaf reflectance can detect both genetic identity and phenotypic plasticity in Fremont cottonwood, an impor....

One of my favourite parts of grad school was getting to dig in and learn new methods for data collection and analysis. One of my favourite things now is supporting students doing this, especially when it means two new big papers for our group, both OA! doi.org/10.1111/pce.... doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Flat headed mayfly! And lots of isopods!

It seems we have a great Bluesky momentum, so many interesting feeds and starter packs! But I feel that perhaps something is still missing... 💦🐸🦆🦠🌱🐟🐢🔵
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
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A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale.

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