Wonderful display of #autumn #Ericaceae #berries this week in our #coastal #heathlands! Pictured:
#Vaccinium vitis-idaea #lingonberry,
V. angustifolium #blueberry,
Empetrum nigrum #crowberry,
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi #bearberry,
V. macrocarpon #cranberry,
Gaylussacia bigeloviana #huckleberry

Environmental versus phylogenetic control of leaf anatomical traits in #Fabaceae, across a continental scale

New #AJB research by Kexiang Huang, Ying Li, Jianming Wang, Wanting Liang, Keyu Zhao, Changsheng Long, Nianting Yu et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#plantscience #legumes #phylogeny

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Beautiful updated #bryophyte #phylogeny!

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I'm so proud to share that my student Mythri has published her BSc thesis work! Mythri was super interested in plant-acid interactions, she found that specific acid types matter to plants, not just pH.
This is the 1st paper from work done in my own lab 🙂
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HARATU...

The Goud Lab is at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Meeting #CSPB2025! Come check out the poster session this evening and talk to my students about their work on #plant #ecophysiology, #metal #contamination, #peatland #restoration, salt stress and #climatechange @smuscience.bsky.social

Severe #droughts are causing concern for #wildfires in #NovaScotia 🇨🇦. The hiking ban includes #forests, #barrens & #peatlands. I hear mixed opinions on whether to pause #fieldwork or seek exemptions and carry on. As a #PI with students part-way through their thesis projects, what would you do?

What are my students doing these days? Botanizing & more botanizing! I have such a great team of students this summer - fieldwork in Nova Scotia & Ontario & on-campus experiments. Beautiful herbarium vouchers & data so far. I’ll be using this platform to highlight them & their important work 🍃

COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...

Coastal fieldwork is magic. The fog rolled in so thick, I could almost hold it in my hands. So many blooms and berries this week!

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

link.springer.com/article/10.1... A perspective: some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves (Planta 153, 376–387) | Planta

The legacy of #acidrain still impacts lakes in SW #NovaScotia. Would liming #restoration help or hurt sensitive #Atlantic Coastal Plain lakeshore #flora? MSc Summer C is going to find out! We spent yesterday setting up transects for her field experiment in an acidified #lake @smuscience.bsky.social

Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca

Proud of my grad student Rachel Kendall for this #peatland #plant #traits paper! Contrasting responses to climate & geography among shrub, sedge & #moss species. A fun project that connected across provinces & labs @wetland-ghg.bsky.social @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com @smuscience.bsky.social

Just joined Bluesky today - I loved the academic twitter community I'd built over 10 years so much, and it's been hard to let go and move on... but I have great colleagues & friends that assure me it's nice here too 🙂 Time to start something new and hopefully reconnect with some familiar faces 🌱