Timothy Martin
@treephys.bsky.social
Tree Ecophysiology Professor, University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences. Trees, forests, forestry. Posts do not represent my employer.
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Timothy Martin
@treephys.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Bluesky Migrate
This page serves a simple guide on how to migrate to Bluesky from X. All steps are optional, but you should really do the first two.
www.bluesky-migrate.com
Here is a useful guide for migrating away from the x-hole.
www.bluesky-migrate.com
www.bluesky-migrate.com
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The taxodium were really looking great just downriver of Yankeetown this weekend, too!
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The taxodium were really looking great just downriver of Yankeetown this weekend, too!
Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.
Fog in the flatwoods.
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Fog in the flatwoods.
Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.
Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.
8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.
August 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.
1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.
Rainbow river, Florida.
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Rainbow river, Florida.
Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.
July 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.
A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.
Find the fox squirrel.
July 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Find the fox squirrel.
Nice!
Science funding tough to come by these days. This study was sponsored by Preparation H
July 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Nice!
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Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.
July 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Drosophyllum plants with leaf-traps fully covered with mucilage in a summer day (10 july) on bare, dry soils. How do they manage? We’re working on it.
Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.
July 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.
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I mentioned naval stores last week. Here’s another industrial use. Subfossilized resin from Agathis trees (#Araucariaceae) in New Zealand was prized for varnishes. Gum-diggers excavated tons of the stuff. 📷: An Old Gum Digger of Houhora, North Auckland, Archives of NZ CCBY2 #resin #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
July 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I mentioned naval stores last week. Here’s another industrial use. Subfossilized resin from Agathis trees (#Araucariaceae) in New Zealand was prized for varnishes. Gum-diggers excavated tons of the stuff. 📷: An Old Gum Digger of Houhora, North Auckland, Archives of NZ CCBY2 #resin #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
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Today's forestry pic (running late), Sitka spruce trees on the Olympic Peninsula.
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic
July 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Today's forestry pic (running late), Sitka spruce trees on the Olympic Peninsula.
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic
#forestry #trees #nature #washington #olympic
Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.
June 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.
About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.
June 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.
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If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees
June 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees
Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
June 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
Candyroot,*Polygala nana*. Northern Florida flatwoods. Thanks to @ecologyonfire.bsky.social for ID. If it doesn't have bark, I'm clueless.
May 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Candyroot,*Polygala nana*. Northern Florida flatwoods. Thanks to @ecologyonfire.bsky.social for ID. If it doesn't have bark, I'm clueless.
I was surprised to find that a mountain laurel grows in Florida flatwoods, definitely NOT in the mountains! *Kalmia hirsuta*, hairy mountain-laurel.
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I was surprised to find that a mountain laurel grows in Florida flatwoods, definitely NOT in the mountains! *Kalmia hirsuta*, hairy mountain-laurel.
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Quite a few hummingbirds this year. A male has been busy trying to win over a lady friend, while he drives off the other two or three males that try and visit the feeder. It keeps him very busy!
May 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Quite a few hummingbirds this year. A male has been busy trying to win over a lady friend, while he drives off the other two or three males that try and visit the feeder. It keeps him very busy!
Attended concert 2.5 hours away from campus with a colleague, opening act was introduced as being from Gainesville. Thought I recognized bassist, turns out she was one of our students. Small world!
May 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Attended concert 2.5 hours away from campus with a colleague, opening act was introduced as being from Gainesville. Thought I recognized bassist, turns out she was one of our students. Small world!