Andy Leigh

Please repost. Call for abstracts for the much anticipated International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress in Melbourne, Australia, is now open. Hop to it people and see you in Oz in 2024!

Congratulations to @Antarcticmoss, recognised today in the #KingsBirthdayHonours for her significant service to science, particularly in the study of Antarctic environmental change.👏 @UOW 🔗arcsaef.com/story/distingu…

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Extended deadline - now a few more days to get your submission in for our symposium on Detecting and attributing change in Australian vegetation!

Interested in a fully funded PhD @EcoEvo_ANU at Australia's best university for biologists? Next deadlines April 15 & August 31. Info here 👇 @AnaMMSequeira @megabugface @DanielWANoble @SashaMikheyev @DamienFarine @LucyMAplin biology.anu.edu.au/research/divis… Flying foxes by the lake

This tiny mushroom (possibly Mycena subcyanocephala) 📸 chofungi

@DeanNicolle1 And here's what I like to do with roasted bunya nuts: bunya nut and orange cake!

Catch our story about the Kimberley Myrtle Rust seed collection trip on Gardening Australia abc.net.au/gardening/how-…

Plant ecology PhD project + scholarship in the Australian alpine @DeakinCIE in Melbourne. Could focus on plant thermal tolerance, water stress, seed and snow ecology. More info bit.ly/3RV1ECu Start mid 2023. @austmountresfac @EcolSocAus @nzecology @RBG_Victoria

Just out in @NewPhyt: Plant water use theory should incorporate hypotheses about extreme environments, population ecology, and community ecology, w/ #BenBlonder @AparecidoLuiza @HultineLab @DanicaLombardo2 @BradPosch @martijn_slot @KlausWinter nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Zero regrets putting "emotional state" on the data sheets this field season

A survey of Australian sandalwood in WA has revealed that populations are dominated by plants undergoing senescence, reinforcing claims that the species is on a trajectory towards becoming extinct in the wild. #AustralEcology @WileyEcolEvol @EcolSocAus bit.ly/3VaWV0l

@QiaoyunX @TERN_Aus @iLEAPS18 @b_medlyn That's some pretty high calibre selfie-work right there! Go you, for your prezo prize 👏

Loving the iLEAPS-Ozflux joint conference @TERN_Aus @iLEAPS18! Heaps of great talks and keynote presentations from legends like Belinda @b_medlyn and Graham Farquhar! And super honoured to be awarded The Best Oral Presentation Award under the Early Career Scientists Category 😊

This summer, we monitored vegetation in alpine herbfields. Following in the footsteps of Maisie Fawcett, this is the 75th year since the start of her study, making it Australia’s 2nd longest running ecological investigation. Tentative title of our paper: “The Plot Thickens”!

Aussie desert plants rock. Here’s a new discovery in Garrarnawun country in Judbarra national park, Northern Territory abc.net.au/news/2023-01-0… via @ABCaustralia

The theme of #ESASCBO2022 was 'Reconnecting' This 👇demonstrates just how important connections are 👏

Adrienne Nicotra ‘What is plant thermal tolerance and does it matter in a warming world?’ ‘Temperature is cool (🤣) dynamic and it matters!’ Hypothesised extreme environment plants would have broader thermal tolerance but ALL had wide thermal tolerance. #ESASCBO2022

Grey Power! 👵🏽👨‍🦳 thanks @frenchkris007 for this term to describe the huge volunteer contribution made by retirees to conservation. Friends groups are so important and, YES, we should be funding these people much more 💲💲#esascbo2022

Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices. Gomez et al 2022 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… #sharecode #researchsoftware #RSE #ECR #phdlife @sortecoevo #ESASCBO2022 @EcolSocAus @RSocPublishing @ResearchSoft @SoftwareSaved

How does fire affect forest carbon stocks when trees can resprout post-fire? This paper led by @lukewarm1981 presents a novel approach that accounts for partial mortality of branches and stems. Standard approaches currently underestimate dead C pools. doi.org/10.1016/j.fore…