Anping Chen
@dranpingchen.bsky.social
plant and ecosystem ecologist @ Colorado State University, nature enthusiast. https://apchenecologylab.weebly.com
Water use efficiency (iWUE) is related with water availability. Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper shows that this relationship has been strengthened over the past decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Water use efficiency (iWUE) is related with water availability. Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper shows that this relationship has been strengthened over the past decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/
May 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/
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Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!
Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.
“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...
www.sltrib.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!
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Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...
Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year
Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.
theconversation.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...
It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events - Nature Plants
Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...
www.nature.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our March issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our March issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺
👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms
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👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms
go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈
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January 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺
👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms
go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈
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👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms
go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈
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🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #8 Jan 20-27, 2025 - 33 posts
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
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✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
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February 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #8 Jan 20-27, 2025 - 33 posts
✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
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✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈
👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...
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Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
February 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
January reading finished... reading is curing. #onebookamonth
January 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
January reading finished... reading is curing. #onebookamonth
In a newly published Agricultural and Forest Meteorology paper, we developed a method that successfully migrates eddy covariance based carbon flux measurements to thousands of meteorological stations. Led by postdoc Dr. Wenqiang Zhang. Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bridging the gap in carbon cycle studies: Meteorological station-based carbon flux dataset as a complement to EC towers
The scarcity and uneven global distribution of eddy covariance (EC) towers are the key factors that contribute to significant uncertainties in carbon …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In a newly published Agricultural and Forest Meteorology paper, we developed a method that successfully migrates eddy covariance based carbon flux measurements to thousands of meteorological stations. Led by postdoc Dr. Wenqiang Zhang. Check out the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Causal Inference With Observational Data and Unobserved Confounding Variables
As ecology tackles progressively larger problems, we are moving beyond the scales at which randomised controlled experiments are feasible. Using observational data for causal inference raises the pro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interesting new paper on inference with observational data in ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Need this
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Need this
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:
www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Forest gain is not the mirror symmetry of forest loss. We knew this for their biophysical effects. We now also know this for resilience - the gain of the same amount of forest cannot compensate for the loss in forest resilience. Check out our new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution: rdcu.be/d6kUI
Asymmetric sensitivity of boreal forest resilience to forest gain and loss
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Here, the authors show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest...
rdcu.be
January 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Forest gain is not the mirror symmetry of forest loss. We knew this for their biophysical effects. We now also know this for resilience - the gain of the same amount of forest cannot compensate for the loss in forest resilience. Check out our new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution: rdcu.be/d6kUI
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Research suggests that deep roots are beneficial for temperate #grassland species subjected to longer periods without rainfall, when #plant-available water is lacking in shallow #soil layers but remaining in deep soil layers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rooting depth and specific leaf area modify the impact of experimental drought duration on temperate grassland species
Temperate grassland species were exposed to different durations without precipitation. Specific leaf area seemed to be related to alternative drought survival strategies rather than drought sensitivi...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Research suggests that deep roots are beneficial for temperate #grassland species subjected to longer periods without rainfall, when #plant-available water is lacking in shallow #soil layers but remaining in deep soil layers besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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NASA JPL chief Laurie Leshin says that over 150 staffers at the research center have lost their homes in the LA fires; the lab has set up a relief fund to help them out, which you can support here: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
caltech.imodules.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NASA JPL chief Laurie Leshin says that over 150 staffers at the research center have lost their homes in the LA fires; the lab has set up a relief fund to help them out, which you can support here: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
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#JPL has so far been safe as well thanks to round the clock work of our first responders. But over 150 JPLers have lost homes that we know of so far. We are raising funds to support them through Caltech!
Please consider supporting:
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thank you!
Please consider supporting:
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thank you!
January 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#JPL has so far been safe as well thanks to round the clock work of our first responders. But over 150 JPLers have lost homes that we know of so far. We are raising funds to support them through Caltech!
Please consider supporting:
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thank you!
Please consider supporting:
caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...
Thank you!
Finally finished this 696-page book before the end of December - thanks for the long holiday of this month. For next months I should challenge much shorter books! #onebookamonthchallenge
December 31, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Finally finished this 696-page book before the end of December - thanks for the long holiday of this month. For next months I should challenge much shorter books! #onebookamonthchallenge
Interesting angel! 👍👍
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 28, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Interesting angel! 👍👍
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The IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Report Media Launch starts NOW! 📢
JOIN US ONLINE ⬇️💻
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Transformative Change Assessment Report Launch
YouTube video by IPBES Secretariat
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December 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
The IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment Report Media Launch starts NOW! 📢
JOIN US ONLINE ⬇️💻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmT...
JOIN US ONLINE ⬇️💻
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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582