Matthew Kaproth

HUGE study on oak physiological responses to long term drought. Thankful for the international team that got acorns from Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, and the USA. Getting species from a broad environmental range changed what patterns we saw! #oak #drought

Like so many research projects, my peat-free potting soil grant ended up yielding secondary lessons--like the importance of nitrogen in a soil mix (50ppm in front set of rows vs 340ppm in back of trays--10-16 days after sowing)

Fellow voters! Please please check your polling place online before you go #vote! Don’t assume you should go to where you voted last time! Voting places do change! It’s very common for people to show up at the wrong place, wasting time.. check vote.org/polling-place-… now!!

This parasitoid, likely Minotetrastichus sp., is ovipositing an egg in the larva of the horse chestnut leaf miner moth! It is like aliens - the parasitoid will consume the moth larva from the inside! #barbie #scicomm #entomology #biologicalcontrol #forestry #urbanforest #insects

Do you do research on #stomata? Check out our showcase 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146981…

Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research

Please RT. My department at UVM is just opened a tenure-track soil ecology faculty position (the one I vacated). Comes with good resources and a collegial department. @theGSBI @soil_institute @soilecol @ESASoilEcology @SON_nemaweb @WomenInSoilEco

Super important to remember that if you have some yard, you too can contribute to enhancing biodiversity on a small but important scale. academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

おはようございます。 #volvox #ボルボックス

An abundance of white oak seedlings are popping up in the Arboretum’s East Woods. Arboretum tree expert Andrew Hipp explains why. #Trees #WhiteOaks #MastYear #Acorns #Seedlings #MortonArboretum

The most powerful message to young men in the entire campaign

Science has a hypothesis-testing part, but it has an equally crucial ‘night science’ mode, where new ideas are improvised for the first time.

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"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life."

I am beside myself at this news. That literally overnight, one of the region's largest transit projects just doubled in length in a move no one saw coming. No years of studies and engagement and agitating for funding. Metro Transit just did it. THIS IS HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK!

#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 400): Larva of the oak gall borer, Synanthedon decipiens, feeding inside a gall induced by the cynipid wasp Callirhytis quercusbatatoides on the southern live oak, Quercus virginiana. #biodiversity #nature

#TansleyReview: What determines transfer of #carbon from #plants to mycorrhizal #fungi? @rebeccabunn7 et al. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/nph.20… #LatestIssue @jayajoshi @tina_kaiser7 @cindyprescott6 @karst_justine @wileyecolevol

Some ecosystems track #climatechange pretty well—but what does that mean for #biodiversity? Very cool grassland #thermophilization and #xerophilization paper from @KaiZhuPhD's lab! nature.com/articles/s4155… news.umich.edu/grasslands-liv…

🧐Have you ever wondered if the interactions among tree🌳 seedlings🌱 & mycorrhizal fungi 🍄 may facilitate or impede tree migrations under changing climate❓If so, check out the new @ESAMonographs paper below by @JordonTourville @sunyesf @SUNY, now @AppMtnClub. Congrats Jordon!

When and where can coastal wetland restoration increase carbon sequestration as a natural climate solution? Out now in @CambridgePrisms, led by Scott Jones, with @ArianeArias @steffi_nolte @KerryleeRogers_ @BRobertsLab et al. Read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Using radiocarbon of plants to track inequity in urban environments 📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… Brief report by Heskel et al. @maryheskel @Macalester