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The Ecological Society of America @esa_org Southwestern Chapter. A trusted community for knowledge and promotion of #ecology in the US Southwest and Mexico 🏜️
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Check out the #OpenAccess study here, in our journal "Ecological Applications"! doi.org/10.1002/eap....
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Applications": Tree seeds in the canopy can beat the heat, sometimes fueling surprise forest comebacks after extreme fires

📄Canopy seed survival through extreme fire in non-serotinous conifers: An unexpected source of forest resilience
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Canopy seed survival conceptual model and key environmental gradients evaluated. (a) Hypothetical timeline of reproductive phenology and its relation to the presence of viable canopy seeds. (b, c) Location of study plots within the Caldor Fire (b) and Dixie Fire (c), with background shading indicating burn date. (d) Drone-derived orthomosaic from 2022 of a section of the Caldor Fire, exhibiting gradients between surviving green trees (green), killed trees with low canopy burn fraction (brown) and killed trees with high canopy burn fraction (gray-black), and indicating the locations of five edge plots (green points), interior plots with low canopy burn fraction (brown points) and interior plots with high canopy burn fraction (black points). (e) An example of a stand with low canopy burn fraction, with abundant yellow pine cones and seedlings. (f) An example of a plot with high canopy burn fraction, with yellow pine cones but few seedlings.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Monographs": Roots and fungi team up differently as forests age, resulting in movement along a nutrient acquisition continuum over time

📄Root-mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation
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Nutrient foraging continuum shifts with stand age in the temperate larch forest. Tree nutrient foraging depends on (c) root and (d) mycorrhizal traits, and (b) associated fungi and (a) interacts with soil-associated fungi. (e) When a young sapling grows, the root system architecture parameters, such as root biomass or root length density, allometrically grow with the shoot (gray line); however, the proportion of carbon investment to resource acquiring organs is likely to decrease as the forest ages, and the root segment metabolic activity, such as respiration, declines (brown line). As a result, the ectomycorrhizal fungi foraging type adapts to the combinations of root carbon supplies and the quantity and quality of soil nutrients; thus, long-distance exploration types are likely to become short-distance types when soil inorganic N accumulates over time. Overall, the nutrient foraging shifts from an “explorative strategy” of young stands to a "conservative strategy" of mature stands.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🆕 in Ecosphere's #MacrosystemsEcology track: How closely do soil moisture & streamflow sync up over time? A close look at seasonal dry-down

📄Aridity reduces lag times between aquatic and terrestrial dry-down among watersheds and across years in the northwest US
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(a) Example of long-term average, seasonal drought propagation for atmospheric demand (−PET), precipitation (Precip.), shallow soil moisture (SM), deep SM, and streamflow for a single high-elevation pixel in the Upper Donner und Blitzen watershed. (b) Example of moving window analysis to characterize the relationship between terrestrial and aquatic drought for a single high-elevation pixel in the Upper Donner und Blitzen watershed (as in panel a).
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Thank you to everybody that attended our events at ESA2025 in Baltimore!

We'd love to hear from u on how we did! Please fill this survey w/ your thoughts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

See you in SLC next year! :D
September 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#ESA2025
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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COME JOIN US AT BALTIMORE! #ESA2025 #ESASW
August 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Last week to apply for our Chapter's travel awards!! Put in your application to help attend ESA 2025!

App closes on June 13. Share widely!

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Southwest Ecologist Awards ($700 travel award)
We are excited to announce the 2025 Southwest Ecologist Travel award ($700)! Funding will be awarded to three early career (students and post-graduates) and/or federal agency ecologists whose work is ...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Applications are now open for the 2025 ESA Southwest Travel awards for ecologists and members of our Chapter presenting or just attending ESA this year!
If you fit the description or know someone who does, apply and share!
Looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore!
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Southwest Ecologist Awards ($700 travel award)
We are excited to announce the 2025 Southwest Ecologist Travel award ($700)! Funding will be awarded to three early career (students and post-graduates) and/or federal agency ecologists whose work is ...
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May 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Hi all! We are finally here on Bluesky and we would like to introduce our 2024-2025 leadership team! Better late than never before we run another election later this year.

We have awesome events planned for ESA2025 in Baltimore. So, stay tuned!
May 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM