Dave Armitage
@darmitage.bsky.social
Assistant prof at OIST in 🇯🇵
Community ecologist / ecosystem functioning / evolutionary ecology / stats / weird plants
Come visit us 🏝️⛵️
https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/ice
Community ecologist / ecosystem functioning / evolutionary ecology / stats / weird plants
Come visit us 🏝️⛵️
https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/ice
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A 🆕 Contribution in the ESA Bulletin: Thinking about grad school? Here are 15 questions that can help you find the right lab fit — and avoid surprises along the way
📄Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
📄Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School
Click on the article title to read more.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A 🆕 Contribution in the ESA Bulletin: Thinking about grad school? Here are 15 questions that can help you find the right lab fit — and avoid surprises along the way
📄Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
📄Fifteen Questions to Ask Before Attending Graduate School
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
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🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology!
🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
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🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
buff.ly/tki7aJ2
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌿 As well as strong research studies, Journal of Ecology also publishes Reviews & Mini-Reviews that promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology!
🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
buff.ly/tki7aJ2
🌷 You can read all of our high-quality reviews on our website 👇
buff.ly/tki7aJ2
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Finally settled in at OIST! Welcomed a wonderfully helpful lab technician and equally helpful administrative staff members, two enthusiastic rotation students (one of whom joined our unit as our first PhD student, yaaay!), a motivated internship student, and even a NEW BABY!!🙌✨
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Finally settled in at OIST! Welcomed a wonderfully helpful lab technician and equally helpful administrative staff members, two enthusiastic rotation students (one of whom joined our unit as our first PhD student, yaaay!), a motivated internship student, and even a NEW BABY!!🙌✨
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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Independent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...
Buribushi Fellowship
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October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Independent researcher fellowships (non-tenure track) at OIST, with a focus on broadly defined theory www.oist.jp/research/bur...
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🏔️ Using a novel source of abundance data, we forecast population spread across landscapes. Our results suggest that biotic processes likely play a critical, but often underappreciated role in driving range shifts over decadal time-scales🌏
📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn
📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🏔️ Using a novel source of abundance data, we forecast population spread across landscapes. Our results suggest that biotic processes likely play a critical, but often underappreciated role in driving range shifts over decadal time-scales🌏
📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn
📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mf7sRRn
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Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants
Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...
New preprint on reciprocal nutrient exchange between pitcher plants and their prey.
Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝
Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝
October 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
New preprint on reciprocal nutrient exchange between pitcher plants and their prey.
Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝
Enjoy this video of wasps having a blast inside pitcher leaves 🍭🐝
Having too much fun making 3D scans of pitcher plants
October 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Having too much fun making 3D scans of pitcher plants
Major congrats to our lab’s first PhD recipient, Nonno Hasegawa. Her work on the population genetics of Darlingtonia will help us better manage and protect the objectively coolest plant on earth
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Major congrats to our lab’s first PhD recipient, Nonno Hasegawa. Her work on the population genetics of Darlingtonia will help us better manage and protect the objectively coolest plant on earth
Full article: Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study
Diet breadth is a key life-history trait influencing range size, evolutionary trajectories, and ecosystem functioning. While diet breadth studies have traditionally been confined to animals, carniv...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Full article: Leaf litter capture in the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea: a preliminary study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Linking Individual Performance to Density‐Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature‐Mediated Genotype Coexistence - Bruijning - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Linking Individual Performance to Density‐Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature‐Mediated Genotype Coexistence
We use a demographic model to explicitly connect individual performance to population-level dynamics, parameterised using experimental data on competing Daphnia genotypes from two latitudes. We show ....
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September 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Linking Individual Performance to Density‐Dependent Population Dynamics to Understand Temperature‐Mediated Genotype Coexistence - Bruijning - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
September 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming
Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...
Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology!
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September 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology!
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Dynamic connectivities of plant metacommunities at a millennial time-scale: the Beringia testbed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671027v1
August 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Dynamic connectivities of plant metacommunities at a millennial time-scale: the Beringia testbed https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671027v1
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⏰Time is running out to submit your proposal for our cross-journal Special Feature Novel communities in response to global change! 🌏
Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh
Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
⏰Time is running out to submit your proposal for our cross-journal Special Feature Novel communities in response to global change! 🌏
Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh
Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh
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Understanding plant-microbe symbiosis is essential in tackling global challenges like food security and ecosystem restoration. In ISME Journal, OIST researchers describe the unique symbiosis between T. azollae cyanobacteria and Azolla ferns: www.oist.jp/news-center/...
Fern leaf pockets hide secrets of plant-microbe symbiosis
Comparison of symbiotic bacteria to free-living relatives shows the genomic effects of host adaptation.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Understanding plant-microbe symbiosis is essential in tackling global challenges like food security and ecosystem restoration. In ISME Journal, OIST researchers describe the unique symbiosis between T. azollae cyanobacteria and Azolla ferns: www.oist.jp/news-center/...
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#OpenAccess #SuzukiAward
Temporal beta-diversity patterns are highly dependent on fundamental parameters of neutral dynamics
Ryosuke Nakadai, the recipient of the 9th Young Scholar Award of The Ecological Society of Japan
doi.org/10.1111/1440...
community composition/ demography
Temporal beta-diversity patterns are highly dependent on fundamental parameters of neutral dynamics
Ryosuke Nakadai, the recipient of the 9th Young Scholar Award of The Ecological Society of Japan
doi.org/10.1111/1440...
community composition/ demography
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
#OpenAccess #SuzukiAward
Temporal beta-diversity patterns are highly dependent on fundamental parameters of neutral dynamics
Ryosuke Nakadai, the recipient of the 9th Young Scholar Award of The Ecological Society of Japan
doi.org/10.1111/1440...
community composition/ demography
Temporal beta-diversity patterns are highly dependent on fundamental parameters of neutral dynamics
Ryosuke Nakadai, the recipient of the 9th Young Scholar Award of The Ecological Society of Japan
doi.org/10.1111/1440...
community composition/ demography
Pleasantly surprised how my first attempt at scanning pitcher plant leaves turned out. Considering 3D printing it to wear as a bonnet
August 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Pleasantly surprised how my first attempt at scanning pitcher plant leaves turned out. Considering 3D printing it to wear as a bonnet
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New visiting programs at OIST for experimentalists and domestic visitors! Application deadline: Sep 15, 2025.
www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New visiting programs at OIST for experimentalists and domestic visitors! Application deadline: Sep 15, 2025.
www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...
www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...
Our paper on the Azolla leaf pocket microbiome is out!
A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Adaptive pangenomic remodeling in the Azolla cyanobiont amid a transient microbiome
Abstract. Plants fix nitrogen in concert with diverse microbial symbionts, often recruiting them from the surrounding environment each generation. Vertical
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July 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our paper on the Azolla leaf pocket microbiome is out!
A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
A very fun project to work on that I hope helps us understand the evolution of nitrogen fixation mutualisms by looking at one of the most extreme examples
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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📆 Workshop Opportunity 📆
The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems.
Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026
More info: andinaspain2026.com
The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems.
Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026
More info: andinaspain2026.com
Improving predictions in ecology
Can complex problems get away with simple solutions?
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July 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📆 Workshop Opportunity 📆
The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems.
Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026
More info: andinaspain2026.com
The ANdinA workshop aims to bridge the gap between modelling and applied ecology to advance ecological predictions in real-world systems.
Nerín, Spain 8-12 June 2026
More info: andinaspain2026.com
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Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
July 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Save the dates!
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.
Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...
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🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy
July 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌳 Terrestrial laser scanning was used to show that lianas reduce tree individual height, which negatively affect tree carbon stocks and biomass growth 🌲👉 buff.ly/PWqgwvy