Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
Plant, restoration, and landscape ecologist
https://www.brudviglab.com/
(he/him)
Environmental science
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Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Apr 14
Ecological Applications Call for Papers Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions
<em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Call for papers:
Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions
Submission deadline 30 April 2026; more details in the link
As one of the Guest Editors, I'm happy to help answer questions
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions
Submission deadline 30 April 2026; more details in the link
As one of the Guest Editors, I'm happy to help answer questions
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
It was a beautiful fall afternoon to do some seed collecting. We'll add these (and more) to our campus prairie reconstruction, as part of the restoration ecology course
New from the group:
Across 100 oak savannas and five states, we show how management structures groundlayer plant diversity by modifying canopy openness, with context dependent effects based on spatial scale and soil attributes
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Across 100 oak savannas and five states, we show how management structures groundlayer plant diversity by modifying canopy openness, with context dependent effects based on spatial scale and soil attributes
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Oct 10
New paper led by former post-bac researcher Isabelle Turner, with @chriscatano.bsky.social:
Seeding density alters the role of soil moisture in structuring plant abundance during prairie restoration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Seeding density alters the role of soil moisture in structuring plant abundance during prairie restoration
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Pinkscale blazing star (Liatris elegans) is blooming in the SRS Corridor Project experiment and attracting many visitors
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Great day today, working in the SRS Fragmentation Experiment. We're conducting our 19th field season, to understand long-term consequences of fragmentation for populations of longleaf pine savanna groundlayer plants species
#demography #fieldwork
#demography #fieldwork
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Amazingly, this is one of the species I was working with today! Part of a long-running study into habitat fragmentation effects on ground layer herb populations
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Interesting - sounds like spots around the oak openings (near Toledo) and Allegan (western MI). Thanks for these tips - I'll have to do some looking!
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Cool find. I'll have to keep an eye out for this one in my neck of the woods. I've not seen it before, but there's an herbarium record from within a couple km of my house
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures
Regeneration of drought-tolerant and fire-adapted (pyrophytic) trees like oaks (Quercus spp.) is broadly limited by mesophication – a positive feedbac…
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New paper: Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 14
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), and black-eyed Susan, starring together in the front yard pocket prairie
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Another year of NutNet in the books @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Oak savanna, with lots of tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris) in bloom - at the Chipman Preserve, near Kalamazoo, MI
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 18
I'll send you an email, Mark - thanks!
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Thanks - it's a past student's research plot and I'm happy to have it here!
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 18
Thanks, Tom
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 18
That would be awesome!
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 17
Thanks, Mark! I'm glad you were able to visit...and sorry I missed you, when you did (if I remember right, I was on vacation at the time, myself, visiting Door County!)
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 17
Lots blooming right now in the front yard pocket prairie, including black-eyed Susan, blue vervain, false boneset, and (just coming online) stiff goldenrod
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 16
😀
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 16
P.S. I don't usually do field work on the weekend, but yesterday was a (mostly) off day for me, so playing catch up today!
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Aug 16
Today I wrapped up the 16th year of vegetation sampling in our oak savanna restoration experiment!
In this study, we are testing the long-term ecological consequences of prescribed fire, fire with tree thinning, and no management, within fire suppressed oak savannas at the MSU MacCready Reserve
In this study, we are testing the long-term ecological consequences of prescribed fire, fire with tree thinning, and no management, within fire suppressed oak savannas at the MSU MacCready Reserve
Today we wrapped up the 10th summer of vegetation surveys in our KBS prairie restoration (reconstruction) experiment, testing how the geographic origin and species diversity of seeds used to initiate restoration affects long-term ecological dynamics
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Lots of insect activity in our front yard pocket prairie this evening, including bumblebees, ambush bugs, and dragonflies
Today was the first day of vegetation surveys in our oak savanna restoration experiment for the year
This is our 16th annual census of permanent vegetation transects, comparing plots receiving repeated prescribed fires, with or without canopy tree thinning, compared to unmanaged controls
This is our 16th annual census of permanent vegetation transects, comparing plots receiving repeated prescribed fires, with or without canopy tree thinning, compared to unmanaged controls
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 31
😬 indeed
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Hartwick Pines #OldGrowth forest; white and red pine, Eastern hemlock, and sugar maple
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Had a great time cycling around Mackinac Island on M-185 today - the nation's only state highway where motor vehicles are prohibited
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Upper and lower Tahquamenon Falls, Tahquamenon Falls State Park
Nicknamed Root Beer Falls, for its color, comes from tannins derived from upstream cedar swamps
Nicknamed Root Beer Falls, for its color, comes from tannins derived from upstream cedar swamps
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Freighters off Whitefish Point, not far from where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago (but with very different conditions today!)
Lars Brudvig
@lars-brudvig.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Yes!