Jim Dalling
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Jim Dalling
@dallingjim.bsky.social
Professor of tropical forest ecology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Tropical soils, seeds and fungal interactions. Mostly Panama, mostly montane.
Hi Martin - I would like to join too - representing montane and premontane forests in Panama. Jim
December 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
🧪 Happy to share a link to our Tansley Review on wood nutrients: underexplored functional traits. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... We highlight the enormous variation in wood nutrient concentrations among species, links to masting, resprouting and ecosystem carbon via decomposition.
November 7, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Publish paper with zombie in the title? ✅ Read about a unique species of tree fern endemic to Panama that converts the vascular tissue of its dead leaves into roots for nutrient uptake.
news.illinois.edu/view/6367/11...
Illustration: Camila Pizano; Coloring: Michael B. Vincent
January 29, 2024 at 3:27 PM