Hey Ecology and/or Evolution folks - UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is going to hire an Assistant Professor in any area of Ecology or Evolution to start next fall. Please share widely or consider applying yourself!

If you like pixels, forests, and/or the terrestrial carbon cycle, please consider applying to work with me as a PhD student or postdoc! Info here: ersamlab.com/join-us.html

Are you at the beginning of your carbon cycle science career? Looking for a mentor outside of your institution? We've launched a mentoring program and currently have mentors waiting to be paired! bit.ly/3mTFvHv

The three major axes of ecosystem function, now out here: nature.com/articles/s4158… We use 203 sites @fluxnet_coop across major terrestrial biomes and extract a series of functional properties related to water, carbon, and energy fluxes. nature (1/7)

New in Nature today: The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. Fantastic eddy-covariance synthesis by Mirco Migliavacca Mirco Migliavacca Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and many others. nature.com/articles/s4158… See overview here: phys.org/news/2021-09-f… FLUXNET_Coop FLUXNET Early Career Network AmeriFlux

How can we robustly interpret, synthesize, and forecast ecosystems' responses to rising global disturbances? In her first 🎉 first-author paper Kayla Mathes argues that this challenge requires a multidimensional framework: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

From our Innovative Viewpoints track: A new multidimensional framework offers a standard way to discuss & analyze #EcosystemStability doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3… #CarbonCycling #EcologicalDisturbance #OpenAccess Kayla Mathes Gough Lab🦝

Thanks to all that tuned in! This project has been really fun to work on. Big thanks to Ben Bond-Lamberty Gough Lab🦝 @LisaTHaber Kayla Mathes and Alexey Shiklomanov for all their incredible work to be published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences January 2022!

New paper in Functional Ecology: "Power-law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types" doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… w/ Gough Lab🦝 Bob Fahey Atticus Stovall Jonathan Walter

Also accepted in the last week: "Inferring the effects of partial defoliation on the carbon cycle from forest structure: challenges and opportunities", an ERL Pespective led by Gough Lab🦝 w/ Dr Jane Foster & Jason Tallant. Hurray!

Now online! 🎉 "Climate drives modeled forest carbon cycling resistance and resilience in the Upper Great Lakes Region, USA" - great #FoRTExperiment analysis led by my colleague Kalyn Dorheim w/ Gough Lab🦝 Alexey Shiklomanov @LisaTHaber Kayla Mathes agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

How can we infer the effects of partial defoliation on the C cycle from forest structure? We don’t have all the answers, but offer some ideas in this ERL perspective, in print today w/Dr Jane Foster Ben Bond-Lamberty JT: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…. UM Biological Station VCU Research

Now out in print: Whole plant traits of coastal dune vegetation and implications for interactions with dune dynamics esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… former MS student Shannon Walker's MS thesis

How does disturbance affect the temporal dynamics of forest structural complexity? Read our synthesis of UM Biological Station disturbance studies to find out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. w/Ben Bond-Lamberty Bob Fahey @hardimanFUSElab JT, VCU Research

Cameron Clay's thesis turned publication out today 👏: "Fire after clear-cut harvesting minimally affects the recovery of ecosystem carbon pools and fluxes in a Great Lakes forest" w/ @alley_barry @LauraJHickey Brooke Propson UM Biological Station authors.elsevier.com/c/1f92Y_8cEVSh…

"Structural complexity and primary production resistance are coupled in a temperate forest", an MS thesis turned publication led by Kerstin Niedermaier 👏, doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2…, UM Biological Station VCU Research Science at PNNL and w/Ben Bond-Lamberty Jeff Atkins 🌳🌲📈.

How (and why) does lidar-derived canopy structure relate to forest soil respiration? @LauraJHickey's MS thesis published today in STOTEN has some thoughts: doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…. U.S. National Science Foundation supported, UM Biological Station and VCU Research .

Beat me to it! I'm recruiting PhD students to start fall 2023 or spring 2024. See the link for more info, and please reach out to me if you're interested!

Massive status bias in peer review. 534 reviewers randomized to review the same paper revealing the low status, high status, or neither author. 65% reject low status, 23% reject high status. Amazing work by Juergen Huber and colleagues. #prc9

Our team is hiring a postdoc to work on a NASA-supported project titled: “Globally-Derived Measures of Structure Informed by Ecological Theory and Observations”. A partnership with NEON's Keith Krause. The job announcement is here: vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careers….