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Nate Anderson
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Ecology, adventures, and lots of plant love.
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In this week’s @science.org cover article, we discover tree bark is a hidden habitat for abundant, diverse, and specialized microbial life that actively regulate our climate 🦠. Bark isn't just an inert armor of tree but an active interface for climate and biodiversity
www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...
Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests
Recent studies suggest that microbes inhabit tree bark, yet little is known about their identities, functions, and environmental roles. Here we reveal, through gene-centric and genome-resolved metagen...
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Fire management in the red tingle forest of southwest Australia has been a hot topic for a few years now. New research from @natesanderson.bsky.social suggests that the red tingle forest should be managed differently than the nearby Karri forest, to reduce tree mortality.

#fire #firemanagement […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Interested in tree #dieback caused by climate change and how it impacts ecosystems? Interested in joining our group for a #PhD project? Find out more (sorry, stipend is available for Australian citizens and residents only): www.unisa.edu.au/research/deg...
Ecosystem Impacts of Tree Diebackminus-thickplus-thickminus-thickplus-thickminus-thickplus-thickminus-thickplus-thickminus-thickplus-thickarrow-small-rightcloseglassesglassesglassesglassesFacebookXLin...
www.unisa.edu.au
November 12, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏
The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic...
The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q
‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire
Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2024 at 8:52 PM