Just published this new paper, with a bunch of fantastic colleagues, with many suggestions for "Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models." Access is free online. We have some great figures, thanks to Victor Leshyk. 🧪🌐🌳🌎

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are really excited to announce… that our next big DroughtNet paper will be published… next week. And that’s about all we can say for now! 😁
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New paper from the (long-finished) Boston Area Climate Experiment shows how water stress during plant growth affects the chemistry of leaves, with later consequences for decomposition rates. Led by Vidya Suseela's lab at Clemson. 🧪 #drought
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The first paper from my dissertation found leaf traits and phylogeny explain plant survival and community dynamics in response to extreme drought in a restored coastal grassland using @droughtnet.bsky.social drought shelters. California native plants were resistant to drought
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New Year New Drought Structures 💦😍🩵

@droughtnet.bsky.social

REU programs are starting to come out across the LTER Network!

See all the postings below.

REU opportunities will continue to come out through the winter, so check back often for the most up-to-date postings.

lternet.edu/education-an...

Great worflow and R package for any one working of ecological trait database !!

by Elizabeth Wenk et al. in Ecological Informatics Nov. 2024

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Do you estimate % cover in your research? Check out COVERater (coverater.com), a standardised method of training to improve visual estimates of cover.

Our app helps streamline data collection in global studies and is a useful teaching tool for undergrads! 🌿(paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...)

Join our faculty!

We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word!

careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

If you have repeated community surveys from the same vegetation plot, turfmapper can help find taxonomic discrepancies and other problems between surveys between-the-fjords.github.io/turfmapper/

Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd.
We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students
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Excited to share our new #Nature article published yesterday. It showed that rainfall variability is almost as important as total annual rainfall amount in determining global vegetation dynamics.

Led by Feldman, with Konings, Gentine, Cattry, Smith, Biederman, Chatterjee, Joiner & Poulter

In case you missed this recent DroughtNet paper, 👀👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Welcome to the new DroughtNet social media presence on Bluesky! We're moving away from Twitter/X and sharing new developments from the network here. In the meantime, you can read more about our International Drought Experiment in the linked paper. 💚🌱🌍🌎🌏
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...