@dovciak-lab
🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳Biodiversity🦋Mountains🏔️Climate🌦️Professor🌳NSF Mid-Career Award🍀Editor, Ecological Applications🎋Past Chair, ESA Vegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow, Yale School of the Environment (Fall 2023). https://www.esf.edu/faculty/dovciak/
🍁🌎 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!
Indeed!
Great & growing global conference. Worth going if you can make it.
Dobrý nápad. Také by sa zišlo aj na Slovensku. 😁
Ha, my former PhD student is from Mendoza, but I have never been. It looks nice.
We are not looking at micro fungi but an interesting idea. We are finding that conifer litter is generally worse establishment habitat even for conifer seedlings compared to the other substrates.
Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
Congrats!
It’s great to work at one of the top-ranked doctoral degree granting institutions on sustainability. At @sunyesf.bsky.social we live what we teach and study!
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Excellent talk today on abrupt vs. slow forest 🌳🌲 change by @nathankiel.bsky.social @sunyesf.bsky.social given @syracuseup.bsky.social biology seminar series. It was super interesting to think of forest change drivers spanning climate zones & disturbance regimes from Yellowstone to the US Northeast
So sad.
This is excellent. Just planning another visit with my Tropical Ecology class to Embera community in Panama (altought not to Darién). Will add this to class reading list!
