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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

The second session is all about assessing and detecting stress effects. We are about halfway through with a great talk by @yuwenzhang6666.bsky.social #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

Roman Zweifel and @daniellecreek.bsky.social showing the flexibility of different dendrometer models for different sized trees and branches #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

Demo time: dendrometer installation #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

Shoutout to the weather & fall foliage on campus @uninmbu.bsky.social at coffee break #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

And just before coffee break, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social who is mixing things up geographically and sharing miombo tree growth dynamics research in Africa #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

Research speed talks are starting off with Gaby Inga Guillen, looking at tree growth responses to climate #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

First keynote from Kathy Steppe at Universiteit Gent disentangling tree growth components 🙌 Understanding sap flow and tree growth is critical in the context of climate change #DendroNet

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 2d

The amazing @daniellecreek.bsky.social kicking off the first #DendroNet meeting at @uninmbu.bsky.social 👏

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RSPB Science @rspbscience.bsky.social · Aug 22

At #EOU2025?

Catch a talk from @rspbscience.bsky.social's Paul Bellamy: “How do methods of woodland creation affect bird communities and abundance?” 🌳🐦

At 14:30 in LR3 as part of the Conservation 2 session
@eounion.bsky.social

Presentation slide entitled 'How do methods of woodland creation affect bird communities and abundance?'

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 20

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"

The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.

doi.org

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Aug 22

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SkogRover @skogrover.bsky.social · Aug 22

We’re thrilled to welcome our new postdoc, Rachel Kuzmich, to the team!

Rachel will be using multi-sensor multi-temporal remote sensing data to examine climate-related forest change.

Excited to have her join us!

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 23

Got remote sensing or species distribution data?

I've got a few months to bridge (May-July) between my phd and postdoc and am looking for short-term remote work!

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 22

Passed my phd defense last week 🥳🕺😎

Big thanks to my committee for the thoughtful discussion, making the 3 hours fly by.

L-R: Steve Lougheed, Paul Treitz, me 👋, Ross Hill, Erica Nol, and Ryan Danby.

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 10

Free bees? Freebies.

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silas fischer @silasfischer.bsky.social · Apr 2

So, are you considering your next study system/species? Don’t forget to check your subconscious bias…what are we missing out on by only studying colorful/boldly patterned and geographically convenient species across the tree of life? This is all to say: don't forget about the drab&distant species!

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 3

5/🧵 we then examined the changes through time using metrics of unfilling, stability, expansion and overlap.

This confirmed that there was expansion, but that the core niche area was stable, as the Chiffchaff population has grown.

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 3

4/🧵 using PCA to represent niche, we could easily visualize that Chiffchaff niche grew through time.

And that our lidar metrics, particularly mean height, foliage height diversity and canopy closure, were particularly important to PC1 which captured 77% of the variance in the data.

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 3

3/🧵 we extracted lidar metrics describing horizontal (like canopy closure) and vertical (like mean height) woodland #habitat components at four time steps at Chiffchaff locations.

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 3

2/🧵 Species distribution models generally assume that the relationship between a species and their habitat is stationary, but there are a lot of reasons this might not be true.

Like population growth.

Thanks to @btobirds.bsky.social, we know that Chiffchaff population has grown a lot.

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Apr 3

1/🧵 Today at #BOU2025, I'm sharing my work using a #lidar time series to examine temporal Chiffchaff niche dynamic.

tl;dr as the population has grown, Chiffchaff niche has expanded.

#remotesensing #ecology 🧪🌎🌳🐦🛰

🙏 @bou.org.uk for the travel award to be here 🙏

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Hans Ole Ørka @hansoleorka.bsky.social · Apr 1

🌲Would you like to map the biodiversity of forests from above? 📢 We have an open three-year #postdoc #position in #remotesensing of forest biodiversity🌳🦋🍄🐞@uninmbu.bsky.social Combine eDNA measurements with #lidar and optical data.

Learn more & apply here 👉 bit.ly/4jfLH6E

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Mar 31

A dreamy day for a stroll in the countryside revisiting my woodland study sites. Particularly enjoyed noticing all the borders and thought about birds noticing the same.

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · Mar 24

Abstract submitted to @eounion.bsky.social where I hope to share my work balancing data-driven #remotesensing approaches with #ecological knowledge to make better habitat models.

🤞 to seeing you in Wales!

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