Jana Stewart
@loveyouleafyou.bsky.social
She/Her soil microbial ecologist🔬 I like env DNA, drones, field experiments🌿🦘🦠 currently working on fire management with Bushfire Natural Hazards Research Centre
if you aint dirty you aint here to party📚postdoc Centre for Ecosystem Science,UNSW
if you aint dirty you aint here to party📚postdoc Centre for Ecosystem Science,UNSW
Huge effort from the @bugnet.bsky.social team. Been great to be part of this network and fantastic to see this published
Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉
BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part:
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Bug‐Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems
The Bug-Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer-reduction experiments in herbaceous- or shrub-dominated ecosystems to assess the impact...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Huge effort from the @bugnet.bsky.social team. Been great to be part of this network and fantastic to see this published
Finished up the annual sampling and a spray treatment for @joe-atkinson.bsky.social and I @bugnet.bsky.social sites out at Fowlers Gap. Blue skies and red earth always a great backdrop for fieldwork
August 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Finished up the annual sampling and a spray treatment for @joe-atkinson.bsky.social and I @bugnet.bsky.social sites out at Fowlers Gap. Blue skies and red earth always a great backdrop for fieldwork
Third paper from my phd is out. This was such a nice collaboration, each of us bringing different skills. Some neat images and a relatively simple method to upscale biocrust surveys in dry conditions doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Redirecting
doi.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Third paper from my phd is out. This was such a nice collaboration, each of us bringing different skills. Some neat images and a relatively simple method to upscale biocrust surveys in dry conditions doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Reposted by Jana Stewart
Had a great week before our at the Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station doing the annual sampling of our (me and @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social) DRAGNet experimental site. Pretty crispy this year with some pretty fast cover estimates... A lot of bare ground...
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Had a great week before our at the Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station doing the annual sampling of our (me and @loveyouleafyou.bsky.social) DRAGNet experimental site. Pretty crispy this year with some pretty fast cover estimates... A lot of bare ground...
Reposted by Jana Stewart
Little Christmas surprise: check out our new paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social, we investigated nutrient release dynamics in wood. Takeaways: what is known from leaf litter does not apply to wood! Time to consider wood and their decomposers different to those of leaf litter. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter
Deadwood represents globally important carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) pools. Current wood nutrient dynamics models are extensions of those developed for leaf litter decomposition. Howe.....
doi.org
December 26, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Little Christmas surprise: check out our new paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social, we investigated nutrient release dynamics in wood. Takeaways: what is known from leaf litter does not apply to wood! Time to consider wood and their decomposers different to those of leaf litter. doi.org/10.1111/nph....
First phd chapter out 😊
New paper in Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment - Soil Bacterial Biodiversity in Drylands Is Dependent on Groundcover Under Increased Temperature
by @mirimunro.bsky.social et al
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
by @mirimunro.bsky.social et al
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Soil Bacterial Biodiversity in Drylands Is Dependent on Groundcover Under Increased Temperature
Introduction Drylands are a major terrestrial biome, supporting much of the earth's population. Soil microbial communities maintain drylands’ ecosystem functions but are threatened by increasing tem...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:54 AM
First phd chapter out 😊