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Jon Henn
@hennhouse.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 🏳️‍🌈

Grasslands, Plant Ecology, Restoration, Traits, Global Change, Fire.
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🔥🌱 From the #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

A functional trait perspective on restored temperate #grassland responses to changing winter insulation & managed disturbance by fire

By Katherine Charton et al.
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🌱🔥 Grassland fires are becoming more frequent and more dangerous across the country. Ecologist Katharine Suding has spent her career understanding the ecosystems that produce them. She shares insights in a Q&A www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Rainy spring may be bad news for fire season. Here’s what you can do about it
Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.
www.colorado.edu
June 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Our article on "Marine-derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities" is finally out 🐧🦆🌱🌾💩🌊🏔️:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Marine‐derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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
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Our department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!
Greenhouse Manager
jobs.colorado.edu
April 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
📣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.
April 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Hi! 👋 We are scientists studying Earth & environmental systems at CU Boulder. Our name = cold/high places, but these days we work from tropics to poles, incl. the world ocean. Follow us for
🧊 Cold regions
⌛ Past climate
🏔️ Earth surface processes
💨 Atmospheric gases
🌱 Ecological change
& lots more!
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you! It's been a pleasure working in INSTAAR the last few years!
January 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Excited to share our new paper - plant metabolomics provide an additional trait dimension in community assembly to better understand how niche selection changes along environmental gradients.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A collaborative project led by @hennhouse.bsky.social
Metabolomic and morphological trait diversity display contrasting patterns in temperate forest tree communities
Studies of community assembly often explore the role of niche selection in limiting the diversity of functional traits (underdispersion) or increasing the diversity of functional traits (overdispersi....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Excited to share our new synthesis of global change experiments from the Niwot LTER

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We had a great team and great leadership from Jon Henn!
Long‐Term Alpine Plant Responses to Global Change Drivers Depend on Functional Traits
Predicting the effects of global change on plant species and communities is a critical challenge as global change drivers accelerate and intensify. We used functional traits to determine whether ther...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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We have a LOT of opportunities for undergraduate student researchers this summer and beyond. Application review is starting! See top three blog posts for details and how to apply: damschenlab.zoology.wisc.edu
January 29, 2024 at 7:35 PM