New Hampshire magic

Excited to announce we're moving to Ann Arbor as I start a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School for Environment and Sustainability at @umich.edu!

What a year it's been in Newfoundland, filled with beautiful wildlife, inspiring shorelines, good science, and great people.

Wonderful visit with Joseph Bump in Newfoundland at @memorialu.bsky.social last week!! Any guesses what Joseph, @gadammeyer.bsky.social, and I talked about??🌲🦌🌲

New Scottish field site loading…

Newfoundland in summer is magic.

When your PhD besties make it to your field site 🥰🥰🥰

@memorialu.bsky.social @yaleforestry.bsky.social

Science white boarding while with the team in the field 🥰

Our framework is applicable from the microcopic to megafaunal - fitting within fractal theories of ecology.

To show the framework in action, we assessed 3 forest community types at different scales (100 cm² → 100 km²). Each scale reveals different animals as key contributors to heterogeneity.

Secondary predictors, including population strategy, overabundance, habitat preference, elemental composition, and predation, are nested within and influenced by body size and density. These traits influence where animals deposit elements and the content of the deposition.

We highlight that the two main traits in predicting how animals will shape elemental heterogeneity or homogeneity are body size and population density. Relatively big or abundant animals tend to have outsized impacts, but there’s more...

Winter field work in Newfoundland 💙🤍🦌