Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻
@dovciak-lab.bsky.social
🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳Biodiversity🦋Mountains🏔️Climate🌦️Professor🌳NSF Mid-Career Award🍀Editor, Ecological Applications🎋Past Chair, ESA Vegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow, Yale School of the Environment (Fall 2023).
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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure
Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…
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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍
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Global change research in the observational era
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November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Global change research in the observational era
Leuzinger and Medlyn
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Leuzinger and Medlyn
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🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year.
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
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🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🌍 Our new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows tropical #deforestation may cause ~28,000 heat-related deaths/year.
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
🌳🌡️💻🛰️ Using satellite data & mortality models we quantified the impact of deforestation-driven local warming on human health in the tropics.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🔗 rdcu.be/eEUbI
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#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
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Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
It’s great to work at one of the top-ranked doctoral degree granting institutions on sustainability. At @sunyesf.bsky.social we live what we teach and study!
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SUNY ESF listed among the nation's leaders for sustainability
The university was recently rated as a top performer among colleges by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
It’s great to work at one of the top-ranked doctoral degree granting institutions on sustainability. At @sunyesf.bsky.social we live what we teach and study!
www.waer.org/news/2025-10...
www.waer.org/news/2025-10...
Excellent talk today on abrupt vs. slow forest 🌳🌲 change by @nathankiel.bsky.social @sunyesf.bsky.social given @syracuseup.bsky.social biology seminar series. It was super interesting to think of forest change drivers spanning climate zones & disturbance regimes from Yellowstone to the US Northeast
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Excellent talk today on abrupt vs. slow forest 🌳🌲 change by @nathankiel.bsky.social @sunyesf.bsky.social given @syracuseup.bsky.social biology seminar series. It was super interesting to think of forest change drivers spanning climate zones & disturbance regimes from Yellowstone to the US Northeast
Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. She is now switching to study plant communities at temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. She is now switching to study plant communities at temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.bsky.social
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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure
Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure
Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I enjoyed hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social❗️🌐🌎
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I enjoyed hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social❗️🌐🌎
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🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
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@appmtnclub.bsky.social
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Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems
In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
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🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems
In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Done! ✅ A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲 site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by @nathankiel.bsky.social, a post-doc in our group @sunyesf.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Done! ✅ A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲 site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by @nathankiel.bsky.social, a post-doc in our group @sunyesf.bsky.social 🌎🌐🧪
A lovely visit to Baltimore @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods @ #SERC w/great info on #NEON. Our lab had 4 presentations & we are now ready for a new semester @sunyesf.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A lovely visit to Baltimore @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods @ #SERC w/great info on #NEON. Our lab had 4 presentations & we are now ready for a new semester @sunyesf.bsky.social
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It’s time to abandon pyrrhic victories against wildfires and embrace pyric- management that utilizes fire to improve the health of plants, animals, people, and their shared environments.
Special thanks to all of my coauthors for their assistance with this work!
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Special thanks to all of my coauthors for their assistance with this work!
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Pyrohealth synchrony: integrating wildland fire into One Health to benefit plants, animals, ecosystems, and people
Abstract. One Health's interdisciplinary approach has been effective at the nexus of human and animal health but often overlooks environmental health, incl
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August 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It’s time to abandon pyrrhic victories against wildfires and embrace pyric- management that utilizes fire to improve the health of plants, animals, people, and their shared environments.
Special thanks to all of my coauthors for their assistance with this work!
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Special thanks to all of my coauthors for their assistance with this work!
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Adding the 4th neat presentation @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social by our lab, lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now research ecologist @appmtnclub.bsky.social. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm 🌎🌐🧪
Check out our lab’s presentations @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting in Baltimore if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm) 🌎🌐🧪
August 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Adding the 4th neat presentation @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social by our lab, lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now research ecologist @appmtnclub.bsky.social. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm 🌎🌐🧪
Check out our lab’s presentations @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting in Baltimore if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm) 🌎🌐🧪
August 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Check out our lab’s presentations @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social meeting in Baltimore if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm) 🌎🌐🧪
🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins @sunyesf.bsky.social for her honorable mention 3rd place young scientist oral presentation award @iavs5.bsky.social meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mtn of New York State 🌎🧪
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www.iavs.org/page/awards_...
Oral Presentation Award - International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist - student, or holder of an advanced degree (undergrad/Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD) within three years of completion of his/her degree - who has made the most outstanding oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association. The winner (first prize) is awarded 1000€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meetings of the Association. Winners of the first prize in the Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award in any of the previous years cannot compete for the award in this category again.
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August 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins @sunyesf.bsky.social for her honorable mention 3rd place young scientist oral presentation award @iavs5.bsky.social meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mtn of New York State 🌎🧪
www.iavs.org/page/awards_...
www.iavs.org/page/awards_...
Congrats on this very nice article about the effects of the infamous 1988 Yellowstone wildfires 🔥 on 🌲 forest recovery (or the lack of it in places)- the doctoral research of @nathankiel.bsky.social, currently a postdoc in my lab @sunyesf.bsky.social. Published in Ecological Monographs-well done❗️🧪🌎🌐
In 1988, wildfires razed one-third of Yellowstone National Park. While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why. 🧪🌿🌎
Yellowstone’s 1988 Fires Eviscerated Forests. Will They Ever Recover? - Mountain Journal
While most park woodlands are regenerating, some have turned into meadows. A new study digs into why.
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August 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Congrats on this very nice article about the effects of the infamous 1988 Yellowstone wildfires 🔥 on 🌲 forest recovery (or the lack of it in places)- the doctoral research of @nathankiel.bsky.social, currently a postdoc in my lab @sunyesf.bsky.social. Published in Ecological Monographs-well done❗️🧪🌎🌐
Our lab is represented at the @iavs5.bsky.social meeting by Rachel Hopkins who will discuss how elevational distributions of plants changed over 60 years with climate warming on the legendary Whiteface Mountain of New York State. If you can, check her talk out: Aug. 2, 1:30 PM, Spruce Suites.
July 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Our lab is represented at the @iavs5.bsky.social meeting by Rachel Hopkins who will discuss how elevational distributions of plants changed over 60 years with climate warming on the legendary Whiteface Mountain of New York State. If you can, check her talk out: Aug. 2, 1:30 PM, Spruce Suites.
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🌎🌐🧪 Have you ever wondered what fire 🔥 & One Health have in common? If so read the new #BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social review👇 led by Sam Gilvarg, a PhD student @sunyesf.bsky.social. I was happy to contribute to this multi-author effort integrating diverse perspectives.
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Pyrohealth synchrony: integrating wildland fire into One Health to benefit plants, animals, ecosystems, and people
Abstract. One Health's interdisciplinary approach has been effective at the nexus of human and animal health but often overlooks environmental health, incl
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🌎🌐🧪 Have you ever wondered what fire 🔥 & One Health have in common? If so read the new #BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social review👇 led by Sam Gilvarg, a PhD student @sunyesf.bsky.social. I was happy to contribute to this multi-author effort integrating diverse perspectives.
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 3. The Mediterranean open scrub (phrygana, garrigue) has a desert-like summer climate & it occurs on rockier & more disturbed sites than taller & denser Mediterranean maquis (macchia, chaparral). The plants here are fascinating! Do you know these few?
July 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 3. The Mediterranean open scrub (phrygana, garrigue) has a desert-like summer climate & it occurs on rockier & more disturbed sites than taller & denser Mediterranean maquis (macchia, chaparral). The plants here are fascinating! Do you know these few?
#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 2. Crete has a fun mix of hardy native trees such as the Mediterranean juniper & olive (top) as well as many trees introduced from across the world, some of which have been cultivated in Crete for centuries such as date palm & pomegranate (bottom). 🌎
July 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 2. Crete has a fun mix of hardy native trees such as the Mediterranean juniper & olive (top) as well as many trees introduced from across the world, some of which have been cultivated in Crete for centuries such as date palm & pomegranate (bottom). 🌎