Emily Geest, PhD
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Emily Geest, PhD
@egeest.bsky.social
Butterfly ecologist 🦋
I’m still figuring out how this site works but I just found all the science, ecology, and entomology starter packs! So exciting to see so many scientists in one place!
January 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My other new paper! This one looks at a 36-year dataset on a rare marsh sinkhole pond. A highlight is the inverse relationship between American lotus and pickerel weed—when one thrives, the other declines.

monativeplants.org/wp-content/u...
monativeplants.org
January 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Brand new here, but I’ve had a ton of papers come out lately so I might as well share them!

For this one I explored how butterflies respond to different fire regimens! Using fire alone creates a totally different butterfly community compared to fire/haying or fire/grazing.

doi.org/10.1002/glr2...
The effect of land use intensity and habitat characteristics on butterfly community composition within the Southern Great Plains of the United States
Land use intensity influenced overall butterfly community composition with sites managed only with fire having the most dissimilar butterfly community compared to three other management regimens (fir...
doi.org
January 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM