Michael J. Gundale
@michael-gundale.bsky.social
Professor of Forest Vegetation Ecology, working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 🇺🇸 + 🇸🇪
https://www.slu.se/en/profilepages/g/michael-gundale/
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Great paper Eliska!
Check out our new paper about birch seedlings, traits, nutrient acquisition and warming in subarctics! 👀⚠️🌳 Just now coming out in Oikos :)
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Many thanks to Maja Sundqvist and the whole amazing team 🤩
@stefhupperts.bsky.social
@michael-gundale.bsky.social
@aclassen.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Many thanks to Maja Sundqvist and the whole amazing team 🤩
@stefhupperts.bsky.social
@michael-gundale.bsky.social
@aclassen.bsky.social
Whole‐seedling trait adjustments of mountain birch under contrasting environmental conditions
Warming temperatures can promote arctic tree seedling establishment and growth, but these effects depend on the environmental context and the seedlings' capacity to acquire limiting resources. Here, ....
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November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Great paper Eliska!
New paper alert!!! From my FORMAS project, we estimate the surface albedo along a wildfire and forest management chronosequence. These disturbance types have a very effect on albedo development through time. Hats off to lead author Eirik Naesset Ramtvedt.
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Greater increase in surface albedo following clear-cutting than wildfire in pine dominated northern Swedish boreal forests
There is a public debate on how boreal forests can deliver climate change mitigation benefits. While most debates regarding Fennoscandian forests have…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New paper alert!!! From my FORMAS project, we estimate the surface albedo along a wildfire and forest management chronosequence. These disturbance types have a very effect on albedo development through time. Hats off to lead author Eirik Naesset Ramtvedt.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This looks like a great opportunity in a great location!
Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
September 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This looks like a great opportunity in a great location!
Happy to share a new manuscript, led by Theresa Ibanez: Wildfire, salvage logging and warming: Their interactive effects on boreal conifer reforestation - Ibáñez - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library 👇👇👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Wildfire, salvage logging and warming: Their interactive effects on boreal conifer reforestation
This study demonstrates that artificial regeneration through planting can support forest recovery following wildfire, especially under high fire severity in sites where natural regeneration is poor. ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happy to share a new manuscript, led by Theresa Ibanez: Wildfire, salvage logging and warming: Their interactive effects on boreal conifer reforestation - Ibáñez - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library 👇👇👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Michael J. Gundale
A Meta‐Regression of 18 Wildfire Chronosequences Reveals Key Environmental Drivers and Knowledge Gaps in the Boreal Nitrogen Balance
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August 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A Meta‐Regression of 18 Wildfire Chronosequences Reveals Key Environmental Drivers and Knowledge Gaps in the Boreal Nitrogen Balance
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Looks like a great opportunity in a great location.
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
August 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Looks like a great opportunity in a great location.
Reposted by Michael J. Gundale
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
August 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
Denali National Park!
August 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Denali National Park!
Field work is underway in Interior Alaska! It is a tough job being an aspen in Alaska. If you escape the moose, then you have to deal with these leaf miners.
August 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Field work is underway in Interior Alaska! It is a tough job being an aspen in Alaska. If you escape the moose, then you have to deal with these leaf miners.
A great paper here by @stefhupperts.bsky.social. This opens the door to new research on other sources of N fixation in boreal forests👇
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
August 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A great paper here by @stefhupperts.bsky.social. This opens the door to new research on other sources of N fixation in boreal forests👇
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Reposted by Michael J. Gundale
I'm so excited to share our new paper in Global Change Biology: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance, with @michael-gundale.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
August 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm so excited to share our new paper in Global Change Biology: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance, with @michael-gundale.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Out today in Nature! We estimated a new global rate of N2-fixation, yielding new relationships between N2-fixation and NPP and ET. Great leadership by Carla Reis and Steve Perakis. 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture
Nature - Biological nitrogen fixation may impose stronger constraints on the carbon sink in natural terrestrial biomes and represent a larger source of agricultural nitrogen than is generally...
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July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Out today in Nature! We estimated a new global rate of N2-fixation, yielding new relationships between N2-fixation and NPP and ET. Great leadership by Carla Reis and Steve Perakis. 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Michael J. Gundale
📢 The @paqlab.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD (or MSc), and you don't want to miss that - best place ever to do you PhD! 😉 To work in IDENT, a network of experiments of the effects of diversity on forest functioning. Foreign student? It's gotten harder 😞 but we can help.
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June 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
📢 The @paqlab.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD (or MSc), and you don't want to miss that - best place ever to do you PhD! 😉 To work in IDENT, a network of experiments of the effects of diversity on forest functioning. Foreign student? It's gotten harder 😞 but we can help.
paqlab.uqam.ca
paqlab.uqam.ca
Anchorman - That Escalated Quickly scene (1080p)
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June 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Look like a great job opportunity in a very nice city and country.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3 years) at the University of Oslo in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling.
The postdoc will work on improving & applying the land surface model CLM (Community Land Model) that is used in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM).
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
The postdoc will work on improving & applying the land surface model CLM (Community Land Model) that is used in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM).
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Look like a great job opportunity in a very nice city and country.
Really excited to share the first data-based manuscript from our FORMAS funded project within the special call “The role of Swedish forests in the climate transition.” Here we focus on vegetation diversity, with excellent lead authorship by Vincent Buness.
First paper from our Scots pine chronosequences (managed vs unmanaged): diversity peaks after disturbance & in old‑growth, driven by soil & structural heterogeneity. Highlights the need for a mosaic of early post‑fire & late‑successional stands.
👉 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👉 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Really excited to share the first data-based manuscript from our FORMAS funded project within the special call “The role of Swedish forests in the climate transition.” Here we focus on vegetation diversity, with excellent lead authorship by Vincent Buness.
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
Here is the press release for our new Nature paper
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Which tree species fix the most carbon?
PRESS RELEASE - To answer this important question, an international consortium of scientists, coordinated by INRAE and Bordeaux Sciences Agro, studied the growth of 223 tree species planted in 160 exp...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What types of tree species achieve the highest growth? We show, surprisingly, that tree species with conservative traits very often outperform acquisitive species, except in the most productive habitats. Excellent project lead by Laurent Augusto and Marie Charru.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species - Nature
Under field conditions, acquisitive tree species generally grow slowly, whereas conservative species show generally higher realized growth, owing to their ability to tolerate unfavourable environmenta...
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March 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What types of tree species achieve the highest growth? We show, surprisingly, that tree species with conservative traits very often outperform acquisitive species, except in the most productive habitats. Excellent project lead by Laurent Augusto and Marie Charru.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just waiting for a fish to bite.
March 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just waiting for a fish to bite.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!
February 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Repost & like, if you stand with President Zelensky!
New paper alert. We compared foliar fungal communities in native and introduced populations for a pine species (Spoiler alert: fewer pathogens in exotic populations). Shout out to an excellent international network of collaborators. 👇👇👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Distinct foliar fungal communities in Pinus contorta across native and introduced ranges: evidence for context dependency of pathogen release - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Distinct foliar fungal communities in Pinus contorta across native and introduced ranges: evidence for context dependency of pathogen release
www.nature.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New paper alert. We compared foliar fungal communities in native and introduced populations for a pine species (Spoiler alert: fewer pathogens in exotic populations). Shout out to an excellent international network of collaborators. 👇👇👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.