Martin Dovciak🌱🌻🌳

Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf @SUNY

@MilanChytry Wow, that is an interesting finding!

In our new article (Midolo et al., Ecology Letters), we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.70…

@MilanChytry Congratulations! So well deserved.

I am deeply honored and humbled to share that I have been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. Now switching to study plant communities @ temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.

🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. See 🦋 for details. @sunyesf @SUNY @BrookhavenLab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It was great hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf @SUNY! @Editor_EApp @ESAApplications @ESA_org

🥁New paper from our Northeastern Mountain 🏔️ Network❗️More details on 🦋. @sunyesf @SUNY doi.org/10.1007/s10021…

Done! A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by Dr. Nathan Kiel, @even_kiel25, post-doc in our group.

A lovely visit to Baltimore @ESA_org meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods at @SmithsonianEnv w/great info about #NEON. Our lab had four presentations & we are now ready for a new semester @sunyesf.

@dudney_joan @Ecology_Letters Nicely done!

Are you asking "if" or "how much" has #climatechange impacted your system, then this paper is for you! Excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out now @Ecology_Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Adding the 4th & very important presentation @ESA_org from our lab - lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now a research ecologist @AppMtnClub. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm

Our lab has 3 presentations @ESA_org meeting in Baltimore. Check them out if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm)

🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins @sunyesf for her honorable mention 3rd place in the young scientist oral presentation award @IAVS5 meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mountain of New York State. iavs.org/page/awards_or…