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Wildlife ecologist, trophic ecologist, museum lover, truffle admirer, biological illustrator, and assistant professor at ETSU.

Johnson City, Tennessee
Joined November 2013
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PHD STUDENT WANTED! ...to work in my project “How does animal-mediated seed dispersal affect range shifts of European beech in the Swiss Alps?” All details provided in the link. *funded by National Science Centre in Poland (Sonata) ibs.bialowieza.pl/ogloszenia…
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Outer space is harsh. Extreme temperatures and radiation can break down most materials, but a study on the International Space Station finds a biological molecule that holds its own: melanin derived from fungus. In PNAS: ow.ly/QvbA50VLAZb
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Autum is coming. It's time to start tracking the fate of seeds dispersed by rodents. This season - invasive red oak (Quercus rubra) acorns. I used seed tagging in several of my previous studies, e.g. link.springer.com/article/10…
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JUST PUBLISHED: What time of the day do ripe fruits drop to the ground? Who cares? The answers in this intriguing work led by Pedro Garrote: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Scottish mountain hares do not respond behaviorally to increased camouflage mismatch doi.org/10.1111/oik.10834 📷 © Marketa Zimova @NordicOikos @WileyEcolEvol #behavioralplasticity #camouflage #climatechange #mountainhares #phenologicalmismatch
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New & #OpenAccess in @ESAMonographs: The trophic cascade involving Yellowstone wolves, elk, and aspen is primarily driven by predator-induced reductions in elk density rather than changes in elk behavior doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1627 With #OpenData in @datadryad #NSFFunded @NSF
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I'm awaiting funding decisions but anticipate recruiting a PhD student for fall 2025 If ur @ #TWS2024, have interests & skills that align w/our lab, & want 2 talk, pls get in touch or stop by the poster session where I'll present on coyote work done w/@RolandKays & #SnapshotUSA
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Europe is facing a seed dispersal “crisis,” due to extinction threats and population changes among the animals that do the seed dispersing, according to a new study in Science. bit.ly/4dKyW0s
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(Pls RT) Come be our colleague: TT Job available at Assistant to Associate faculty level in Microbial Genetics at University of Miami! Apply by 11/1/24. tinyurl.com/UMmicrogen (And yes, the background is real ... it was our 2024 Faculty Retreat held 15ish mins from campus!)
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Different #drought tolerance between arbuscular #mycorrhizal and #ectomycorrhizal woody plants. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… by Liu et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience #mycorhizal #ectomycorrhizal #droughttolerance
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1/2 Seeds dispersed by frugivores are temporarily retained inside their guts until they eject them. We show here that plant species differ in their dispersal potential because seed size influences retention times in frugivorous birds. 🔓 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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#NewPublication: Resource availability alters breeding strategies in a small mammal community research.fs.usda.gov/treesea…
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@ryanbstephens and team found that the timing of mast availability had a strong influence on when reproduction takes place in a small mammal community...🐁 buff.ly/46K7cau
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Beech, spruce and silver-fir benefited from masting through decreased predispersal insect predation and greater pollination efficiency. These effects were stronger for beech than conifers species. Paper of the week: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Tree and mycorrhizal fungal diversity affect leaf functional traits in trees! This is what @TMonjau, Kezia Goldmann, Olga Ferlian, Nico Eisenhauer (@EisenhauerLab), Helge Bruelheide, @ZeqingM, @HaiderSylvia and I found in our recent study in @FunEcology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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