Bob Shriver
@bkshriver.bsky.social
Plant Ecologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno
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Bob Shriver
@bkshriver.bsky.social
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Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.
Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor:
Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.
plant-traits.net/lab-openings/
Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire.
plant-traits.net/lab-openings/
Lab openings | Laughlin Research Lab
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October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Join the Laughlin lab and our new NSF funded project! Awesome opportunity to visit forests across the western US and examine the functional basis of demographic responses to drought and wildfire.
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1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social
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Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings
Growth patterns recorded in tree rings may predict drought ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Past studies of drought-killed trees have produced conflicting evidence. Some show killed trees were highly respons...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social
New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Density‐dependent growth and dispersal can accurately forecast near‐term range shifts in a dominant dryland tree species
We found that the inclusion of external drivers such as climate conditions or topography generally did not improve forecast accuracy and that at multidecadal time scales, intrinsic population process....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New paper led by PhD student Elise Pletcher! Forecasts from simple, density-dependent population models are highly transferable to new sites. Adding env. covariates does little to improve prediction in-sample and worsens forecasts out-of-sample. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!
Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.
“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!
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A bit late but excited to see our new TREE paper out on integrating PSFs with resilience theory!
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Integration of plant–soil feedbacks with resilience theory for climate change
The resilience of ecosystems to climate disruption requires internal feedbacks that
support the stability of ecosystem structure and function. Such feedbacks may include
sustained interactions between...
www.cell.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A bit late but excited to see our new TREE paper out on integrating PSFs with resilience theory!
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Yale School of the Environment is hiring an open-rank professor in temperate forest resilience! Come be my colleague!!!!!
environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...
environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Temperate Forest Resilience
The Yale School of the Environment (YSE) invites applications for an open-rank tenured or tenuretrack faculty position with research and teaching interests in the broad area of temperate forest resili...
environment.yale.edu
June 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yale School of the Environment is hiring an open-rank professor in temperate forest resilience! Come be my colleague!!!!!
environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...
environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...
A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
Human intervention or natural dynamics? Rethinking theories on woodland expansion | University of Nevada, Reno
New research challenges long-standing beliefs about rising tree densities in the West’s dry woodlands
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June 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A nice summary from Nevada Today of our recent paper on Pinyon-Juniper woodland dynamics in @pnas.org. Check it out!
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
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Dioecious plants have separate male and female individuals, and temperature sensitivity may vary between sexes. A study of a dioecious grass species, Texas Bluegrass, shows that poleward shifts will be shaped by male heat intolerance. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
June 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Dioecious plants have separate male and female individuals, and temperature sensitivity may vary between sexes. A study of a dioecious grass species, Texas Bluegrass, shows that poleward shifts will be shaped by male heat intolerance. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @bkshriver.bsky.social on why woody plants are apparently more prevalent in dryland areas: long-term increases in tree population are responsible for more young trees, and low rates of tree establishment over the past 400 years in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
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May 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @bkshriver.bsky.social on why woody plants are apparently more prevalent in dryland areas: long-term increases in tree population are responsible for more young trees, and low rates of tree establishment over the past 400 years in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.
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I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
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May 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.
📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.
May 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
There is still time to apply for this position! If you have some spatial modelling skills and interest in wildfire, please consider applying.
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We begin reviewing applications next week!
April 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We begin reviewing applications next week!
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Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost!
@EsaSeeds
@EsaSeeds
April 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hi Folks! Myself and the Barberan Lab at U of A are still looking for a PhD student to work on an NSF funded project exploring effects of fire and invasion on soil microbes. We are looking for someone to start in Fall! SOON! Email me if you are interested! PLS Repost!
@EsaSeeds
@EsaSeeds
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The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions.
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center
Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III
College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col
Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions.
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
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Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes!
More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
February 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Please spread the word - I am looking for a postdoc to join my lab at @osubpp.bsky.social to study diversity and interactions of plants and pathogens in wild and working landscapes!
More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
More information here: agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecolo...
Our department at the University of Nevada is looking for a Chair to help lead us into the future! We are young and very research active applied ecology and environmental science department. Come join us!
January 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Our department at the University of Nevada is looking for a Chair to help lead us into the future! We are young and very research active applied ecology and environmental science department. Come join us!
Research on a Tahoe endemic alpine plant led by M.S. student Sage Ellis was featured in the Sierra Sun. Sage just defended her thesis! Check it out more about her research here: www.sierrasun.com/news/tahoe-d...
Tahoe draba: the cutest plant you’ve never heard of
GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA, Calif./Nev. – If you have lived in Tahoe or frequented it for some time, chances are you’ve heard about Tahoe yellow cress or stumbled on beach signs cautioning of the rare...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Research on a Tahoe endemic alpine plant led by M.S. student Sage Ellis was featured in the Sierra Sun. Sage just defended her thesis! Check it out more about her research here: www.sierrasun.com/news/tahoe-d...
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Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677
Postdoctoral Scholar - Community Ecology – ESPM: Organisms and the Environment
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677
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Interested in field ecology, genomics, and infectious diseases? Want to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? Then this job might be for you! We will start reviewing applications on 22 November and hope to have the position filled by the new year.
November 17, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Interested in field ecology, genomics, and infectious diseases? Want to live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest? Then this job might be for you! We will start reviewing applications on 22 November and hope to have the position filled by the new year.
@jblaszczak.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc in quantitative ecology to model the population and community dynamics of benthic algal communities. Come join us in the beautiful eastern Sierra and Great Basin! Please share! More details here: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
April 15, 2024 at 3:21 PM
@jblaszczak.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc in quantitative ecology to model the population and community dynamics of benthic algal communities. Come join us in the beautiful eastern Sierra and Great Basin! Please share! More details here: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
For folks in the Reno area interested in Pinyon-Juniper, the BLM is holding a workshop on PJ ecology and management in early May. I, along with other researchers, will be presenting. You can register here: www.blm.gov/workshop-man...
April 10, 2024 at 6:27 PM
For folks in the Reno area interested in Pinyon-Juniper, the BLM is holding a workshop on PJ ecology and management in early May. I, along with other researchers, will be presenting. You can register here: www.blm.gov/workshop-man...