Mark Westoby

leaving twitter. Will post occasionally at @westobymark.bsky.social

Memorial Lecture Feb 26 2025 @ANU Fenner School. David Brand: The Evolution of Forestry into a Natural Capital Asset Class. #location" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/ev…

Very concerning findings that #H5N1 from an infected human shows adaptation to mamalian spread, airborne spread in ferrets, and lethal to mice and ferrets. Highest virus replication in the lung. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Distinguished Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick passed away yesterday. A beloved colleague at the heart of our School for 50+ years @UTAS_ , his kindness, dedication, and commitment to the Tasmanian environment will not be forgotten. He will be missed.

Trait-based ecology, trait-free ecology and in between nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TCEQNATI… @mqnatsci

Schrader et al "Islands are key for protecting the world's plant endemism" @Nature @mqnatsci" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158… @Weigelt_P @lrcai @FdezPalaciosLab @IslandKostas @BioGeoKreft

Rob Kooyman @mqnatsci theguardian.com/australia-news…

EXHIBITION ALERT: Visit "Anatomy Of The Angophora" at Ditty Wheels Gallery in Willoughby, NSW. The debut solo exhibition of artist Tim Owers celebrates the magnificent Sydney Red Gum, Angophora costata - our 2023 #EucalyptoftheYear! #LoveAGum timowers.com.au/exhibitions/an…

terrific is the right word! -- I hadn't known of this

Truly sorry about Dennett's passing. A great philosopher, took biology seriously, and a very considerate person as I had reason to know.

Up the Australian east coast, an average of 14% of plant species are lost per oC increase in mean annual temperature, and 20% are gained. @Oikos_Journal doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

3/3 Msg 2: this can be done using multi-response phylogenetic mixed models MR-PMMs.

2/3 Msg 1: where covar between traits across species is also phylogenetically conservative, the phylo conservative share should be separately quantified, rather than being partialled out of the trait relationship.

1/3 Nice new paper from Sanchez-Martinez et al @MethodsEcolEvol about role of phylogeny in ecological comparisons across spp besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…. Two key messages aligned with Westoby et al 2023 @Jecol doi.org/10.1111/1365-2….

📢PhD scholarships!!! Fancy #rhizobia #invasionbiology #networkecology #microbes #botany, #fieldwork in three countries? Then this project @mqnatsci (with @ananovoaperez & @DaveRichSBosch) is for you! See surl.li/odiralink. Applications close 20-2-24. Please RT!

@mrillig biofilms

A question just popped into my head: We talk about old-growth forests and old-growth grasslands and the properties that distinguish them. Are there old-growth microbial communities? what are their properties? Any thoughts? does this same idea apply? #ecology #microbiome

Jack Westoby Memorial Lecture 21st Nov @ANUFennerSchool; Claudia Romero and Jack Putz, Active Forestry to Improve the Fates of Tropical Forests

draliceevans.substack.com/?utm_source=na… Nice overview of Claudia Goldin's work. Captures the history of feminism, at least in USA.

A blog commentary (portuguese and english versions) on the possibility of a new communally-developed curriculum for ecology marcoarmello.wordpress.com/2023/09/12/cor… via @SobrevivendoNC, modeled on the wonderful CORE-Econ core-econ.org.

📢J.P. Grime transformed the study of #plant #ecology, say 14 prominent scientists. 👇This piece kicks off our 3rd Grime Reviews Series with an assessment of his legacy: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…