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New paper in Science: Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure
Check out our new publication on tropical forest land use change, focusing on oil palm and selective logging in Malaysian Borneo! It just came out in Science and is covered in The Conversation. I made a small contribution to the microclimate and functional trait datasets, but the overall project represents a huge effort from numerous people…
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Summer undergraduate research opportunity available
The lab has a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) funded for 2025 – join us in Colorado studying alpine plant ecology! More information and application instructions are here.
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California aspen working group meeting
Three of us traveled last week to Etna, California for the second meeting of the California Aspen Working group. We met a lot of wonderful people and have some new ideas for ways to work together. Below are a few photos of the Big Meadows aspen restoration project we got to visit with the Scott…
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New PNAS paper: Intensive leaf cooling promotes tree survival during a record heatwave
A guest post by lead author and lab postdoc Brad Posch – The summer of 2023 in Phoenix, AZ, was (at the time) the hottest ever recorded. But it’s not just in the southwest United States where record-breaking temperatures are becoming more common; heatwaves are increasingly longer, hotter, and occurring more often around the world.…
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