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Dr. Joan Dudney
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Assistant Professor @ucsantabarbara Global Change Forest Ecologist @switzernetwork @SmithFellows @PeaceCorps #BLM

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Nov 24
Disturbance interactions have profound consequences for forest health, yet remain poorly understood.

Here we use DAGs to differentiate #Synergisms, #CompoundDisturbances & #NetworkEffects and review the impacts of climate change.

Final version out now! 🧪🌐🍁🌱
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Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 11d
#Mediterranean seafloors are heating fast 🌊🔥. Our new study shows bottom marine #heatwaves will intensify, last longer, and threaten benthic species—often year-round by 2100. A growing #ClimateRisk for benthic #biodiversity.
#ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪

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Increasing bottom marine heatwaves pose a critical risk to Mediterranean benthic species
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are extreme ocean temperature events broadly affecting marine ecosystems. The Mediterranean Sea has faced severe impacts from …
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Reposted by Joan Dudney, Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 11d
Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study examines long-term changes in species richness across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species...
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Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Tobias Kuemmerle, Hans Henrik Bruun , and 8 more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 11d
Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants
This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...
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Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Stephen D. Murphy, Nicolas Gross , and 3 more

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Dr Pierre Mariotte @pierremariotte.bsky.social · 13d
⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱
#Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com
The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink - Nature Ecology & Evolution
By combining satellite observations with ground-based data and expert validation, this analysis demonstrates considerable misestimation of grassland extent and thereby carbon stock estimates in previo...
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Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Stephen D. Murphy, Joan Dudney

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 13d
Meta-analysis is ubiquitous in ecology, but it is poor at determining which conservation interventions work in which contexts

That’s why we’ve developed Precision Ecology, using methods developed in, eg, medicine to inform precise, data-informed conservation

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Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...
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Reposted by Joseph A. Tobias, Richard D. Gregory, Stephen D. Murphy , and 4 more

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 13d
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, John W. Williams, James M. Bullock , and 5 more

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 14d
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function
When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 21d
Very comprehensive, insightful study on the DSR—diversity is not stabilizing when using abundance-weighted metrics and total species richness. An important reminder that our outcome metrics really matter!
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21d
Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities

Pan et al.

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Conceptual diagram illustrating the concept of species diversity (average richness, mean annual richness; cumulative richness, cumulative richness across years), and population stability metrics (unweighted mean, weighting species by taking them equally; weighted mean, weighting species by their realized mean relative abundance across all years); relationships between plant species diversity and population stability, considering the emergent properties of species diversity and population stability metrics; and the expected correlation coefficients between plant diversity and population stability based on the relationships.

Reposted by Joan Dudney, Jules Segrestin

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 21d
Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities

Pan et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Conceptual diagram illustrating the concept of species diversity (average richness, mean annual richness; cumulative richness, cumulative richness across years), and population stability metrics (unweighted mean, weighting species by taking them equally; weighted mean, weighting species by their realized mean relative abundance across all years); relationships between plant species diversity and population stability, considering the emergent properties of species diversity and population stability metrics; and the expected correlation coefficients between plant diversity and population stability based on the relationships.

Reposted by Yadvinder Malhi, Jeremy T. Kerr, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 23d
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Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat
Intense droughts have caused water stress and elevated mortality for trees in the Amazon, foreshadowing the future of tropical forests as the climate changes.
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Reposted by Joan Dudney

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23d
Plant traits matter in fire ecology!

"On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area"

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Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests - Nature Climate Change
More frequent fires in the North American boreal are causing shifts from conifer to deciduous forests. This study finds that when deciduous forests burn, their carbon losses are driven by weather, but...
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 25d
🥳🔥

Reposted by Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Karl Andraczek

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 26d
Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!
dudney-joan.bsky.social Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Dec 18
Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐

Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

Reposted by Joan Dudney, Samuele Ramellini

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 26d
In Nature Communications, our paper led by Viktoriia Radchuk shows that phenological change mediates global vertebrate responses to temperature. The study compiles 213 time series of phenotypes and population sizes, including data from Bylot. Read: urls.fr/w7ZKp9 @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻‍❄️
A selection of studied species is shown, with each inset giving information for that species on its generation time (T, in years; also depicted by the black bar next to it), its diet (carnivore: C, herbivore: H, and omnivore: O) and whether the species is a migrant (M) or a resident (R). The inset shows the number of studies per taxon and trait category. Illustration credits for the species pictures taken from Wikipedia: Svalbard reindeer—Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, four-striped grass mouse—C.R. Selvakumar, silver gull—JJ Harrison, snow petrel—Samuel Blanc, northern giant petrel—Liam Quinn, green turtle—Brocken Inaglory, green-rumped parrotlet—Jam.mohd, Columbian ground squirrel—Martin Pot, red-winged fairy-wren—John Anderson, grey-headed albatross—John Harrison. Two species pictures were provided by the co-authors of this study: painted turtle (credit: FJ) and Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (credit: SOp). The remaining pictures were taken from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/photos/).

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Joan Dudney

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26d
Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...
Science (all of it) peaked in 2021
An ecologist friend* noticed that the annual number of times he’s been cited grew throughout his career up until 2021, when it peaked. It then declined for a couple of years straight. Then it…
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Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Joan Dudney

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Dylan Craven @dylancraven.bsky.social · 28d
wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory

Reposted by Irena Šímová, Joan Dudney

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 28d
1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒
VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers.
🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault
📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
VegVault logo printscreen of the paper on the webpage of Nature Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06176-1

Reposted by Emilio Vilanova, Joan Dudney

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Ade Martin @ademartindc.bsky.social · Jan 10
Good morning everyone. Today in “one day, one paper “, forest loss intensifies meteorological drought across over half of global climate zones, with boreal regions most affected as reduced precipitation and altered surface energy amplify water deficits and extend drought impacts 🌎🍁
Forest loss intensifies meteorological drought in more than half of Earth’s climate zones
Forest loss increases the risk of meteorological drought more in boreal zones than in the tropics.
www.science.org

Reposted by Joan Dudney, Julen Astigarraga

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Daniel Moreno Fernández @foresrock.bsky.social · Jan 7
Hemos empezado el año con un artículo nuevo, y este es muy bonito

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"Summer aridity modulates tree growth response to thinning in Mediterranean pines"

Vamos con el primer hilo del año (1/13)
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#SoyForestal

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard Betts , and 7 more

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Jan 6
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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Forest Ecosystems @forestecosyst.bsky.social · Jan 6
Studying 800 balsam firs, researchers found how trees stop growing in fall affects future forests, aiding in predicting carbon storage under changing climates.🌲
#climate #forest #carbon
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Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Lei Yu (于雷) @nefu-for-journal.bsky.social · Jan 5
Methods for identifying topkill in conifers using airborne lidar to monitor structural diversity and disturbance | Journal of Forestry Research link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Methods for identifying topkill in conifers using airborne lidar to monitor structural diversity and disturbance - Journal of Forestry Research
Forest insects and pathogens, in addition to fire, contribute to structural diversity by creating snags (dead trees) and dead tops on live trees or “topkill” in conifers throughout western North Ameri...
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Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Rob Marchant, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 3 more

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Jan 3
Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help...
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Reposted by Joan Dudney

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jan 2
Severe fire has impacted populations of the California spotted owl more than fuels management or drought-related tree mortality | Forest Ecology and Management | doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... | #ecology #bioacoustics #ornithology 🔊🪶
A brown owl flying with its wings outstretched, through a wooded area.

Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Osbert Sun @osbertsun.bsky.social · Jan 1
Final version published in Gold OA journal Forest Ecosystems
📰Forest structures are shaped by elevation and precipitation in the Central Himalaya www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Darío Martin‐Benito, Joan Dudney , and 3 more

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Dec 22
Just before the Xmas break🎉

In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇

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Above‐ and below‐ground trait coordination across 90 angiosperm and gymnosperm tree species in a common garden experiment
This research highlights the significance of elucidating the mechanisms behind above-and below-ground organs. The varying trait coordination across clades indicates different resource acquisition str...
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Dec 19
Congratulations on this important study!

Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Forest Ecosystems @forestecosyst.bsky.social · Dec 18
Restoring white pines in Idaho forests not only aids their recovery but also enhances understory plant diversity, improving ecosystem health and resilience.👇
#pine #forest #ecosystem
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Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Stephen D. Murphy , and 2 more

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Dec 18
Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐

Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Seren Bagcilar @serenbagcilar.bsky.social · Dec 17
The last of my dissertation work is in Ecosystems! Please reach out if I can share a PDF (or a story about trying to do field work during the two biggest California fire years on record 🥲)
Repeated High-severity Fire in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades of California, United States: Landscape Trends and Belowground Effects - Ecosystems
Repeated high-severity fire is threatening forest resilience in dry and mesic forests of the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades of California, USA. While impacts to plant communities have been descri...
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