J. Tyler Fox

In early spring, when the ground is damp and the trillium and mayflower unfurl, the mighty morel mushroom appears beneath the diamond bark of an old ash tree!

must carry the babs (📸: patrick ross @zjfarris)

Can I help you..!? -Arkansas Mantis religiosa in late October

Correction: Murder Noodle with legs

What can fishes (and other georeferenced biological data) tell us about spatial patterns of hydrologic disturbance..? Turns out, quite a lot! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZBM0B8cckPJX

Curse of the dreadful Bradford pear (xPyrus calleryana)! These no good, free-roving freak weeds can't reproduce through self-pollination, but are spreading fast by cross-pollinating with cultivars and native pears. Sadly, spotted on the campus of #UArkansas!

A wonderful illustration of the importance of serendipity in science ~ a whole new supra-kingdom lineage discovered by a graduate student who just happened to collect some dirt while out on a hike and take it back to the lab.. #TangledTree #scicomm quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfoun…

@G_Kralik041 @Land_MDPI @caracalbotswana btw...don't know about you @G_Kralik041 , but I've started eating pb&j 6 days a week again!

@G_Kralik041 @Land_MDPI @caracalbotswana Yeah -amazing how well a 1,500 kg animal can blend in!

A team of #NSF funded Virginia Tech researchers (@kathyalx @jtylerfox) explore causes of land cover change in African savannas twitter.com/NSF_GEO/status…

@G_Kralik041 @Land_MDPI @caracalbotswana Nope -still haven't gotten around to publishing those data...soooon! That was a fun day, though -easy there momma!

Our paper just out in @Land_MDPI-are elephants to blame for loss of #forests in #Chobe District of northern #Botswana? @caracalbotswana twitter.com/Land_MDPI/stat…

The amazing Balkan lizard orchid (Himantoglossum sp.) w/ its prodigious labella. Protected species in Bulgaria, but seriously understudied!

#NewPaper Scaling up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

@AnneWHilborn All this talk of #bestspots makes me laugh!! #thisischobe

ICYMI: We're collecting records of dead #salamanders to help find #Bsal #chyrid fungus twitter.com/MyFrogCroaked/…

Join our live #ThisIsChobe twitter safari on 09 June - 12:00 or 19:00 (GMT+2) for a chance to win a #Chobe safari

@am_anatiala Damn you, binomial land cover data!!

Thank you @FattebertJ! Hoping to get some southern exposure in your neck of the woods soon!

Congrats to @jtylerfox who is now a honest to goodness Dr. Fox @vt_cnre