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3-yr (!) postdoctoral opportunity at UCT working on our "Seasonality in the Cape" project. Will suit postdoc working at the interface of ecological observation and remote sensing. Deadline 16th Jan 2019. Jasper Res Altwegg Advert here: uct.ac.za/sites/default/…

Interested in drought ecophysiology and working in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world?

Thanks to DataCamp for providing academic access to their fantastic learning platform for R for my Global Change Ecology class. Check out datacamp.com

New paper just out showing branching has little impact on hydraulic efficiency. Rethinking the sexual dimorphism paradigm in Leucadendron PeerJ Publishing peerj.com/articles/6835 #Ecology #PlantScience @adam_roddy

Postdoc position available at UCT - "Advancing our understanding of plant hydraulic function in the GCFR". Deadline: 31st Aug, 2019. For further information: uct.ac.za/sites/default/…

Mailed it! Our new paper on a quick, cost-effective return mail campaign revealing two tap water worlds (surface versus groundwater) across South Africa has just come out at nature.com/articles/s4159… Scientific Reports Biological Sci UCT Res Altwegg Jasper @bumbanian

What a great video. Well worth 6mins of your time. Are #grasshuggers a thing yet? They should be. youtube.com/watch?v=GAoVZo…

Our paper on plasticity vs conservatism of fynbos and renosterveld shrublands to rainfall seasonality is just out. Product of collaboration with NCC Environmental Services Drie Kuilen NatRes ACCESS Secretariat and years of hard work from PhD student Justin van Blerk 👏👏👏 doi.org/10.1111/nph.17… Res Altwegg

Understanding our groundwater in the Mother City youtu.be/ft8_WG-eF5Q Great help for borehole owners #CitizenScience ✊🏽 #groundwater will be critical in #CapeTown ‘s future #droughts Andre Fourie Kevin Winter Klaudia Mostert GroundWater Division IAHgroundwater @drshafickadams

Experimental evidence that reseeders and resprouters react quite different to changed rainfall seasonality Adam West Plant Conservation Biological Sci UCT SEEC UCT Research sciencedirect.com/science/articl… another paper from Justin v Blerk's thesis

Just out: Drought and desiccation tolerance in campos rupestres. authors.elsevier.com/c/1dFL-MUQfVgw… Really nice to see side-by-side pics from this study and our fynbos drought work, showing the common design. And a reminder of just how much work these drought experiments are! 😅

From the ashes: historical botanic photos destroyed in Cape Town fire resurrected theguardian.com/environment/20…

New paper just out: Does drought limit resprouter recruitment in Erica? A test using seeder and resprouter seedlings of Erica coccinea. publish.csiro.au/bt/BT21015

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Should it be renamed the "fynroot" biome? Our new paper in PNAS, led by Mingzhen Lu, shows that the fynbos keeps out the forest by having the thinnest roots in the world. Jasper UCT Research [email protected] Mingzhen Lu pnas.org/content/119/9/…

Such a cool explanation of a decade-old puzzle in the CFR. Male and female restios differ in water use efficiency due to phenology, not physiology. Males get a head start, growing when hot and dry, to be ready with pollen when females mature. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ae… [email protected]

Drones improve our ability to detect post-fire recovery in shrublands, especially for the important grassy component of these ecosystems. Powerful tool when combined with ground surveys (and it is fun too)! link.springer.com/article/10.100… Jasper Biological Sci UCT UCT Research

Here's to persistence!😅 This paper was conceived 12yrs ago. So happy to see it published at last. A neat, technically difficult study, that considerably expands our understanding of fynbos plant responses to moisture stress. rdcu.be/c37cQ

New paper on "Unpacking satellite pixels". Using a multiyear dataset from the Fynbos Biome, we show that UAVs allow us to reveal the drought and phenological responses of shallow- versus deep-rooted shrubs that are otherwise invisible from satellites. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…