Sam Reed
@sampowersreed.bsky.social
Forest Climate Adaptation, Biodiversity Conservation, & Disturbance
🔥🦌🌪️🪲🌊🪱❄️ 🐛⛈️🦠🌱
IonE Postdoctoral Fellow @ Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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IonE Postdoctoral Fellow @ Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Sam Reed
@sampowersreed.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
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Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...
New Rooted in Research highlighting our work on how fire, deer, and canopy gaps interactively change the forest seed bank:
Restoring future forests: how fire, deer, and canopy gaps shape forest seed banks and regeneration potential | US Forest Service Research and Development
At the Fernow Experimental Forest, scientists examined how prescribed fire, deer exclusion, and canopy gap creation applied individually and in combination influenced seed bank diversity and compositi...
research.fs.usda.gov
July 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New Rooted in Research highlighting our work on how fire, deer, and canopy gaps interactively change the forest seed bank:
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High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->
May 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->
New preprint of ours using the B4WarmED experiment to 1) Test how warming and rainfall reduction influence litter decomp of 8 temperate-boreal tree species and 2) How ambient- and warm-grown litter of the same species decompose in different warming environments
Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️
Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️
Direct and indirect interactions among warming, water, and growing condition slow decomposition rates of temperate-boreal tree litter
ecoevorxiv.org
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New preprint of ours using the B4WarmED experiment to 1) Test how warming and rainfall reduction influence litter decomp of 8 temperate-boreal tree species and 2) How ambient- and warm-grown litter of the same species decompose in different warming environments
Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️
Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️
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Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
May 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
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Hi Bluesky! 👋 Let us introduce ourselves!
The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management.
Check out this 🧵 to learn more!
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The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management.
Check out this 🧵 to learn more!
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April 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hi Bluesky! 👋 Let us introduce ourselves!
The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management.
Check out this 🧵 to learn more!
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The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management.
Check out this 🧵 to learn more!
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I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍
February 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍
I just read this paper and honestly, it is so useful. Highly recommend folks in the climate adaptation space read it.
This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.
This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.
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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications
Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...
www.nature.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I just read this paper and honestly, it is so useful. Highly recommend folks in the climate adaptation space read it.
This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.
This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.
New story on our most recent @journalofecology.bsky.social manuscript: Get the inside scoop on how combined fire, deer, and treefall gaps influence the forest seed bank
A hidden forest future | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
Smoke from a prescribed burn in a forest. What if the future of a forest was determined not by the trees we see, but by the seeds hidden beneath our feet? A groundbreaking study, recently published i...
cfans.umn.edu
February 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New story on our most recent @journalofecology.bsky.social manuscript: Get the inside scoop on how combined fire, deer, and treefall gaps influence the forest seed bank
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Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐
go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
January 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐
go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
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Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank.
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank.
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
"Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities"
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌍🔥
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🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:30 PM
🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Interesting work! I’m super curious to see if this would hold up in a field experiment.
May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests
May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests
By eating the leaves of young seedling oak trees, deer may help the plants survive drought conditions
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
During a baby oak’s first summer drought, a little leaf munching may help it survive
Deer may be seedlings’ unlikely allies when moisture is hard to come by
www.science.org
December 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Interesting work! I’m super curious to see if this would hold up in a field experiment.
May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests
May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests
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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...
We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word!
careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System
Position Summary
The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 7, 2025. Questions regarding this position...
careers.msu.edu
December 14, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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...
We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word!
careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
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We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
December 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM
We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:17 PM
A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
Reposted by Sam Reed
Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
December 11, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
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Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.
#ecorestore #restoration
#ecorestore #restoration
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed to the world’s biggest economies to allocate 1% of their annual military spending, a total of about $24 billion, to support massive reforestation around the world.
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/nati...
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/nati...
Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes
MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed dedicating 1% of the military annual budgets of the world’s biggest economies to support reforestation of around 15 million hectares (37 million ...
news.mongabay.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:41 AM
Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it.
#ecorestore #restoration
#ecorestore #restoration
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So at next week's #AGU24 I will be giving 2 talks:
- fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration
- using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance
And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪
- fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration
- using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance
And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪
December 7, 2024 at 1:42 AM
So at next week's #AGU24 I will be giving 2 talks:
- fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration
- using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance
And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪
- fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration
- using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance
And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪
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Hello! We're new around here, so a short introduction 🎤
We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.
We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation
We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.
We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation
December 6, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Hello! We're new around here, so a short introduction 🎤
We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.
We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation
We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.
We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation
My employer @ione-umn.bsky.social is now on Bluesky - Recommend giving 'em a follow to get the scoop on some of the coolest environmental research and sustainability leadership on the block 🌎🧪🌐🌡️
Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎
environment.umn.edu
Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎
environment.umn.edu
Institute on the Environment | Discovering Solutions to Earth's Greatest Enviromental Challenges
IonE is leading the way toward a future in which people and the environment prosper together.
environment.umn.edu
December 6, 2024 at 6:57 PM
My employer @ione-umn.bsky.social is now on Bluesky - Recommend giving 'em a follow to get the scoop on some of the coolest environmental research and sustainability leadership on the block 🌎🧪🌐🌡️
Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎
environment.umn.edu
Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎
environment.umn.edu
Do other people add the Oxford commas back into their manuscript proofs? I feel like this stylistic point should be up to the authors...
December 5, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Do other people add the Oxford commas back into their manuscript proofs? I feel like this stylistic point should be up to the authors...
For #WorldSoilDay, I want to share our recent paper that tested how deer 🦌 and canopy gaps 🍁 influence invasive earthworms 🪱
We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass
But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎
We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass
But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎
Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps
Despite the large body of theory concerning multiple disturbances, relatively few attempts have been made to test the theoretical assumptions of how and if disturbances interact. Of particular import...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM
For #WorldSoilDay, I want to share our recent paper that tested how deer 🦌 and canopy gaps 🍁 influence invasive earthworms 🪱
We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass
But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎
We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass
But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎
Reposted by Sam Reed
November 16, 2024 at 4:27 PM
This starter pack is getting some renewed attention, so I’ll be a bit more active in adding folks to it
Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well
Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well
I know we have a million starter packs right now, but I think we need one for forest management & policy!
I know I missed a ton of people, so if you'd like to be added, please message me (particularly you tropical foresters). Or, if you don't want to be on this list, lmk!
I know I missed a ton of people, so if you'd like to be added, please message me (particularly you tropical foresters). Or, if you don't want to be on this list, lmk!
December 4, 2024 at 1:50 PM
This starter pack is getting some renewed attention, so I’ll be a bit more active in adding folks to it
Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well
Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well