John Dwyer
@john-m-dwyer.bsky.social
Plant ecologist at The University of Queensland. Rainforest lover and co-fur-parent of Rosalind and Barbara.
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🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🚨Paper alert🚨
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
Yesterday we were treated to an inspirational seminar from Dr Laura Williams from @westsyduhie.bsky.social all about the importance of tree diversity, novel ways to quantify it and its consequences for how forests function. Good luck with the richly-deserved DECRA Laura!!! Ping @bmedlyn.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Yesterday we were treated to an inspirational seminar from Dr Laura Williams from @westsyduhie.bsky.social all about the importance of tree diversity, novel ways to quantify it and its consequences for how forests function. Good luck with the richly-deserved DECRA Laura!!! Ping @bmedlyn.bsky.social
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🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
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Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
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Memories of Trees Past: Coexistence Implications of Legacy Conspecific Density Dependence
Negative density dependence persisted for up to 5 years after tree death, but with interspecific variation. Although stabilising niche differences were large, fitness differences–at the seedling life...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
A thread: [1/3]
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
A thread: [1/3]
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Compositional data needs models that respect its constraints. I show how Dirichlet regression with GPs captures nonlinear environmental effects on plant communities while respecting the dependence of the data #rstats #dataviz ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Compositional data needs models that respect its constraints. I show how Dirichlet regression with GPs captures nonlinear environmental effects on plant communities while respecting the dependence of the data #rstats #dataviz ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...
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#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿
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Here goes a bit of shameless self-promotion:
If you missed my National Science Week online webinar, it is now available via YouTube.
Friends with benefits or frenemies: The role of soil biota in shaping plant responses.
youtu.be/B_hnTfg10TM?...
If you missed my National Science Week online webinar, it is now available via YouTube.
Friends with benefits or frenemies: The role of soil biota in shaping plant responses.
youtu.be/B_hnTfg10TM?...
Friends with benefits or frenemies: The role of soil biota in shaping plant responses
YouTube video by University of Southern Queensland
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Here goes a bit of shameless self-promotion:
If you missed my National Science Week online webinar, it is now available via YouTube.
Friends with benefits or frenemies: The role of soil biota in shaping plant responses.
youtu.be/B_hnTfg10TM?...
If you missed my National Science Week online webinar, it is now available via YouTube.
Friends with benefits or frenemies: The role of soil biota in shaping plant responses.
youtu.be/B_hnTfg10TM?...
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Melbourne: ever helpful
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Melbourne: ever helpful
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Loyalty and nutrient trade… University of Western Australia researchers show how plants and fungi keep their partnerships alive—even in the face of cheating 🍃 ❤️ 🍄
#Mycorrhiza #Evolution
#Mycorrhiza #Evolution
A simple plant–mycorrhizal fungal resource trade co‐evolution model explains mutualism stability, extinction and transitory parasitism via fitness feedback
The mutualism between mycorrhizal fungi and plants has persisted for over 400 million years, despite the mutualism paradox predicting that mutualisms should be evolutionarily unstable due to the fit.....
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October 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Loyalty and nutrient trade… University of Western Australia researchers show how plants and fungi keep their partnerships alive—even in the face of cheating 🍃 ❤️ 🍄
#Mycorrhiza #Evolution
#Mycorrhiza #Evolution
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#openaccess New #LiDAR methods are revealing the influence of land use change and climate change on forest height, as Patrick Norman and colleagues write
Landscape-wide modelling of canopy tree crowns and heights using LiDAR: a case study in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia
Context Understanding the extant structure of forests reveals important insights into their ecological condition, age, biodiversity and related ecosystem services. Advances in LiDAR and computational…
www.publish.csiro.au
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
#openaccess New #LiDAR methods are revealing the influence of land use change and climate change on forest height, as Patrick Norman and colleagues write
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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
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
My day in photos (hours of driving excluded). Lots of talk about trees and lidar with @lilydun.bsky.social and the brilliant folks at ArborMeta.
The access code to the cafe toilet was an unexpected challenge.
The access code to the cafe toilet was an unexpected challenge.
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
My day in photos (hours of driving excluded). Lots of talk about trees and lidar with @lilydun.bsky.social and the brilliant folks at ArborMeta.
The access code to the cafe toilet was an unexpected challenge.
The access code to the cafe toilet was an unexpected challenge.
Diospyros yandina…mmmm
September 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Diospyros yandina…mmmm
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Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture?
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture?
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
August 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring
Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
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Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐
📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...
September 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...
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📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/
Just heading back from a quick couple of days in the scrub at Yarraman with a wonderful crew including Dr Bill McDonald.
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Just heading back from a quick couple of days in the scrub at Yarraman with a wonderful crew including Dr Bill McDonald.
This Turraea pubescens (Meliaceae) we planted 1.5 yrs ago is loving life. Covered in flower buds already #dryrainforest
September 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This Turraea pubescens (Meliaceae) we planted 1.5 yrs ago is loving life. Covered in flower buds already #dryrainforest
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
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Thrilled to see my Tansley insight review published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key opportunities for future research in island systems.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key opportunities for future research in island systems.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trait‐based island biogeography as a tool for studying future ecological communities
Understanding the future of ecological communities under global change is among the most pressing challenges in plant ecology. Islands, with their reduced species diversity and clear boundaries, have...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thrilled to see my Tansley insight review published in @newphyt.bsky.social!
I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key opportunities for future research in island systems.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I provide an overview of recent advances in integrating plant traits into island ecology and highlight key opportunities for future research in island systems.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social