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.
Tropical soils, seeds and fungal interactions. Mostly Panama, mostly montane.
There was a mass flowering last year on BCI - seeds take a year to develop and disperse. This year there is one tree flowering - a 'late bloomer'. I am curious to see if it will set seed. There are a lot of South American Tachigali species. Only a small number of species appear to be monocarpic.
July 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There was a mass flowering last year on BCI - seeds take a year to develop and disperse. This year there is one tree flowering - a 'late bloomer'. I am curious to see if it will set seed. There are a lot of South American Tachigali species. Only a small number of species appear to be monocarpic.
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
The 15% IDC for new NSF grants might be moot. With a 50% budget cut, and existing funding obligations, there may not be any money for new grants anyway.
May 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The 15% IDC for new NSF grants might be moot. With a 50% budget cut, and existing funding obligations, there may not be any money for new grants anyway.
Free to read - great. If you want to support the Global South then what about free to publish? Tying publication discounts to a country's publishing power index is incredibly naive to the financial barriers our colleagues face. A 55% discount to an Ecuadorean author still = $1350 FEcol pub charge.
April 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Free to read - great. If you want to support the Global South then what about free to publish? Tying publication discounts to a country's publishing power index is incredibly naive to the financial barriers our colleagues face. A 55% discount to an Ecuadorean author still = $1350 FEcol pub charge.
Very common among field biologists working in Panama. I expect there are lots of ticks that can induce this allergy but that it takes multiple exposures to generate sensitivity. I had hundreds of tick bites before I became allergic.
April 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Very common among field biologists working in Panama. I expect there are lots of ticks that can induce this allergy but that it takes multiple exposures to generate sensitivity. I had hundreds of tick bites before I became allergic.