ESA Vegetation Section

Applications are open for the ESA Vegetation Section Ton Damman Award, recognizing the best student oral presentation in vegetation ecology at the #ESA2026 Annual Meeting. Deadline: May 31 esa.org/saltlake2026/e….

The ESA Vegetation Section is accepting nominations for the Robert P. McIntosh Award, recognizing the best paper in vegetation ecology published in the previous year. Deadline: May 31 esa.org/saltlake2026/e…

📢 Call for Abstracts! A new Twin Special Issue on “History of Vegetation Science” is now open 🌿 Explore the evolution of ideas, methods, and people shaping vegetation science. 📅 Deadline: 30 April 2026 🔗 Read more & Submit vegsciblog.org/2026/01/13/twi… #VegetationScience #CallForAbstracts #PhD #Research#IAVS

The Ton Damman Award honors the best graduate student oral presentation at the ESA 2025 Congratulations to E. Takyi and coauthors, 2025 recipients, for their work showing how fire suppression reshapes woody communities and functional traits in savannas. esa.org/vegetation/awa…

The Robert P. McIntosh Award 🎉 Congratulations to Jalene M. LaMontagne and coauthors, winners of the 2025 award for their work linking community-level seed production synchrony to traits and climate across North America. esa.org/vegetation/awa…

Applications open: We seek budding science communicators across the field! Fellows earn training, mentorship, a $3,000 stipend and plenty of support as they develop comms projects for U.S. National Park Service teams. Apply by 4/2! esa.org/programs/scip/…

🔔Interested in patterns & drivers of🌳species range shifts across temperate-boreal forest biome transitions under a changing climate❓If so & you are in the area, check out my talk on Nov. 30 @yaleforestry @YaleEnvironment on my lab's research @sunyesf. yaleconnect.yale.edu/TFS/rsvp_boot?…

So happy to share our new paper, published in Remote Sensing of Environment: 🛩️🌳 "Using airborne LiDAR to map forest microclimate temperature buffering or amplification"! doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.… Here's a small thread with the major results + a free share link for full access ⬇️

Love this new seed banking for restoration project at @HFandG! And seeing ecologists in the news. ideastream.org/environment-en… great story by @Ida_in_Cle for @ideastream -- watch the video!

Excellent post doc opportunity: slu.se/en/about-slu/w… Thresholds and tipping points to global warming: plant and soil communities, field work in NZ and Japan, life in northern Sweden, work with @PaulKardol what's not to love? Please share

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in #Horticulture @ucdavis @UCDavisPlants We'd be grateful if you could share this post among your graduating students, postdocs, suitable candidates and professional networks. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06062

🔔New paper on🍄&🌳❗️ Proximity to an old-growth forest edge & ectomycorrhizal tree islands enhance fungal colonization of ectomycorrhizal tree seedlings in secondary forest soils! Kudos to Dr. Andy Cortese from Tom Horton's lab @sunyesf! @plantandsoil link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Identifying Mozambique's most critical areas for plant conservation: An evaluation of protected areas and Important Plant Areas - Richards - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Trees grow their stem mostly at night to avoid high vapor pressure deficits. Quite a surprise to me - never miss the link to physiological processes! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

🔔New paper❗️ Treelines in the U.S. Northeast shifted upslope by 3 m/decade on average w/climate warming. Treeline form, topography, & mesoclimate affected the magnitude of the shift! Kudos to @JordonTourville for this PhD work @sunyesf w/@AppMtnClub! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

#ESA2023 More from our great Joint Social with @ESA_org Vegetation Panel & North American Chapter of @IAVS5. Below, ⁦@Alyssa_Young3⁩ receiving her 2023 Robert P. McIntosh Award from yours truly for the best recent paper in vegetation ecology. doi.org/10.1007/s11258…

We are advertising a PhD project studying beautiful heath forests in Borneo with NERC DTP #IAPETUS2 with me, @francisbrearley, @GiacoSellan and Jill Thompson, CEH. Deadline 8th Jan. Details👇

🚨Job Alert🚨@mwlr_nz is hiring a permanent Forest Ecology Researcher! If you have a PhD in Forest/Plant Ecology and are looking to lead and collaborate with ecologists to understand forest ecosystems, this might be the job for you!🌳rb.gy/a6vmh

#ESA2023 A great Social Mixer w/@ESA_org Vegetation Panel & North American Chapter of @IAVS5. Below, McKinley Nevins receiving the 2022 Ton Damman Award from yours truly for the best student presentation in veg. ecology (Photo: Seth Bigelow). 2023 award selection is underway now!

Please RT: Last chance to apply for the tenure track position 'Functional and evolutionary ecology of holobiontes in the context of climate change' at @UMR_EDYSAN, deadline at 21 September. Application to upload at …xie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_rec… @ESAVegetation @IAVS5 @sPlot_iDiv