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Matthew Coffey
@mattcoffey96.bsky.social
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PhD Student at Carleton University 🇨🇦 studying how community science data 📸 can be used to explore questions in evolutionary ecology
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shravanram95.bsky.social
Excited to share my first first-author paper from my master’s work at @carleton.ca , with @andrew-m-simons.bsky.social and Myron Smith!

We explored how constraints on adaptation can aid the persistence of bet-hedging traits in the short term.

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Avoiding dead ends: the experimental evolution of constraint as adaptation to environmental variation
Abstract. Environmental unpredictability can result in the evolution of bet-hedging traits, which maximize long-term fitness but are, by definition, subopt
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January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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stephenbheard.bsky.social
"On not being a naturalist - but being one anyway". A more personal blog post than usual, reflecting on how I both don't, and do, fit in among my colleagues who study ecology and evolution. scientistseessquirre...
On not being a naturalist – but being one anyway
Note: longer post than usual. But also, both a bit different from my usual and (perhaps not coincidentally) one of my favourites of everything I’ve ever written – so please give it a shot. It’s thr…
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June 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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jgpausas.bsky.social
Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
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🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024. https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/
June 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New paper in American Journal of Botany using @gbif.org mediated data:

The spatial distribution of a hummingbird‐pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by hummingbird abundance 🇨🇦🇺🇸

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

#OpenAccess: ⭐️

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70034
The spatial distribution of a hummingbird‐pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by hummingbird abundance
Premise Many angiosperms have evolved specialized systems that promote pollination by specific taxa. Therefore, plant distributions may be limited by the local abundance of their specialist pollinat...
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May 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
The spatial distribution of a hummingbird-pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by #hummingbird abundance

New #AJB research by @mattcoffey96.bsky.social & @andrew-m-simons.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pollination
(A) Map of eastern North America (100°W to 60°W longitude, 25°N to 60°N latitude) displaying predicted suitable habitat for Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis). A continuous gradient represents habitat suitability, ranging from 0 (white, indicating least suitable) to 1 (dark red, indicating most suitable). (B) Photograph of a Cardinal Flower raceme showing unopened floral buds and open red flowers. On each open flower the pink stigma lobes are visible; exserted from the end of each flower's stamen tube.
April 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM