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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 · Sep 29
Thrilled our #AREES review on #Disturbance #Interactions is out! #ClimateChange = MAJOR DISRUPTER, but not how you’d expect 👀

#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 23h
Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡

🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲

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Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
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Vinicius Bastazini @vinibastazini.bsky.social · 1d
Our new study—part of the forthcoming book Andean #Herpetofauna—explores how #amphibian diversity and threats shift across the elevational zones of the #Colombian #Andes 🧪🦤🐸🌐🌎

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Diversity and Extinction Risk of Colombian Andean Amphibians Across Life Regions
The Andean region in Colombia is heavily populated and has suffered significant habitat conversion and loss, which leads to declining amphibian species richness and abundance. The Colombian Andes enco...
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Reposted by Yadvinder Malhi, Stephen D. Murphy, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 2d
The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38
The Ecuadorian Amazon taken from a canopy tower at the top of a Ceiba pentandra tree. CREDIT: Mark Bush

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Joan Dudney

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 3d
A paper in Scientific Data presents a novel global natural forest map for 2020 at 10 m resolution. This map can support forest monitoring or conservation efforts that require a comprehensive baseline for monitoring deforestation and degradation. go.nature.com/4remVIQ ⚒️ 🧪
This is figure 1. The global extent of natural forests in 2020 (according to the model, and based on the probability threshold of 0.52) with zoom-in examples (from left to right: Amazon Basin in Brazil, deforestation frontier in Indonesia, and boreal forest in Western Canada).

Reposted by Joan Dudney, Benjamin Wildermuth

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Michela Audisio @michela-audisio.bsky.social · 4d
📢 Upcoming online seminar:

Next week (26th November) at 11am CET, Alice Penanhoat @alice4science.bsky.social from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences will talk about her interdisciplinary research on forest structure 🌲🌳🔍

Register here to join the zoom seminar:
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Forest Ecosystems @forestecosyst.bsky.social · 4d
Central Europe’s forests face steep biomass losses and beetle outbreaks above 1.5 °C warming; staying below 2 °C keeps timber, carbon and diversity services safer, underscoring the urgency of meeting Paris Agreement targets.
#biomass
@forestecosyst.bsky.social
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Reposted by Elena Litchman, Joan Dudney

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Ade Martin @ademartindc.bsky.social · 5d
Hi people. Today in "one day, one paper", thermal tolerance breadth in plants exceeds local climate ranges, shaped mainly by heat, cold, and aridity. Desert species show extreme resilience, revealing partial support for climate variability hypothesis and highlighting microclimate-driven plasticity🌎🍁
Drivers of thermal tolerance breadth of plants across contrasting biomes
The results provide partial support for the climate variability hypothesis in plants: photosystem thermal tolerance breadth was greatest in more thermally variable biomes. This relationship was large....
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 11d
Incredible figure! Congratulations on this insightful work!

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Journal of Forestry Research @forestryjfr.bsky.social · 11d
Unlocking Populus’ genetic blueprint! 🧬
From 707 resequenced trees, researchers built a high-density map pinpointing 89 QTLs for growth, wood, and disease traits, boosting genomic selection accuracy by up to 21%.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JFR #ForestryGenomics #Populus 🍁🌺🌱🌿

Reposted by Seth M. Munson, Joan Dudney

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 11d
Insights Into Water Vapor Uptake by Dry Soils Using a Global Eddy Covariance Observation Network

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Ade Martin @ademartindc.bsky.social · 12d
Hello everyone. Today in "One day, one paper", contrasting phenological responses among understorey herb species to warming, light, nitrogen, and land-use legacy reveal shifts in plant competition, with key implications for biodiversity and adaptive forest management 🍁🌎
Intra‐annual growth dynamics of forest understorey herbaceous plant species in response to global change
This study provides new insights into the growth dynamics of forest understorey species and their responses to global change drivers. The findings suggest that global changes, such as climate warming...
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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brian J. Enquist, Julie L. Lockwood , and 4 more

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 13d
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reposted by Paul Caplat, Joan Dudney

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ForestNavigator Project @forestnavigeu.bsky.social · 19d
🌳 Our research in Nature Communications!
Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness.
Read more 👇
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y
#ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms
Conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees can make European forests more climate-effective - Nature Communications
This study investigates the effects of forestation on temperature in Europe using climate model experiments. The findings indicate that conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees in currently for...
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Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Francis Martin, Sabina Burrascano , and 2 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 23d
Great to see the results of our massive biodiversity assessment at Berchtesgaden Natl. Park pour in! Cool insights on patterns & drivers of multidiversity!

#1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Reposted by Karen R. Lips, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Joan Dudney

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23d
Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪
This is figure 5, which shows global hotspots and coldspots of non-native mosquito introduction and establishment, and their socio-economic and environmental drivers.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Joan Dudney , and 2 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 24d
Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rupert Seidl, Brian J. Harvey , and 1 more

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 25d
Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded
esajournals.bsky.social ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 26d
🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors

📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century
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Conceptual figure of postfire reorganization pathways and photo representations of pre- versus postfire differences in stand structure and composition.

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 25d
Congratulations @julieedtree.bsky.social on this cutting-edge research, out today #AGUpubs!

High-resolution tree-ring data are dramatically improving our ability to estimate past climate. We’re now much closer to accurately tracking temperature changes—both today and across history!

Reposted by Darío Martin‐Benito, Joan Dudney

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 26d
Dr. Julie Edwards (@julieedtree.bsky.social) leads a new paper showing that high-resolution cellular-scale measurements (Quantitative Wood Anatomy) yield better temperature signals in Alaskan tree rings than even conventional MXD across all frequencies agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Resolution and Frequency‐Dependent Climate Signals in an Arctic Tree‐Ring Temperature Reconstruction of the Last Millennium
Tree-ring density measurement resolution affects low-frequency trends in temperature reconstructions High-resolution anatomical maximum latewood density has stronger correlations with instrumenta...
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Reposted by Hervé Cochard, Jonathan Lenoir, Matthias Cuntz , and 2 more

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Xavier Morin @xaviermorin.bsky.social · Oct 23
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
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➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis , and 19 more

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Oct 21
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Nicolas Gross, Joan Dudney

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Oct 18
Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators
To understand, measure and mitigate biodiversity change, science and policy need to differentiate between diagnostic indicators that capture as many different biodiversity facets as needed, outcome-o...
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Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Francis Martin, Ben Bond‐Lamberty , and 6 more

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Oct 17
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Oct 16
🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲

Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ

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SkogRover @skogrover.bsky.social · Oct 16
Can site index be determined using branch whorls detected by deep learning from very dense laser scanning data? 🌲

Check out our newly published paper to find out!

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Reposted by Joan Dudney, Xavier Serra‐Maluquer

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Oct 16
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
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🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Relationship between fire severity (dNBR, x axis) and early postfire recovery (y axis) for the different vegetation types affected in the Bermeja, Culebra and Hurdes wildfires (Spain). A: based on the Spanish Forest Map (MFE) data; B: based on the Spanish National Inventory (IFN). Dashed lines correspond to global means.

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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · Oct 14
Paper out in Ecology Letters!

We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
Resurveyed Island Vegetation Reveals That Species Colonisation and Extinction Probabilities Are Linked to Traits
We show that species richness and community trait composition on 132 Australian islands remained stable over six decades, despite high species turnover. Colonisation and extinction probabilities were....
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Oct 13
An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Oct 9
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Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans) - Nature Communications
Climate change threatens mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests, which are among Earth’s most carbon-dense ecosystems. This study finds that a projected 3∘ C warming by 2080 could reduce tree density and carbon storage in these forests by 24%
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Oct 8
Rarely do I get to see seminars that truly inspire—but this one hit all the high notes! Thanks for visiting us!
brian-j-harvey.bsky.social Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Oct 8
Great visit to UCSB & an honor to present in the EEMB seminar series. Was fun to talk forests, fire, & resilience w/ many awesome faculty, graduate students & undergrads.
🌲🔥
Thanks to Anderegg Lab for hosting me, esp Joe Celebrezze. Was fun to be back at my UG alma mater.
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