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2 PhD project positions available at my lab, UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences - starting early 2022 (Open to all nationalities; fully funded: $42k per year for 3.5 years): 1: findaphd.com/phds/project/d… 2: findaphd.com/phds/project/r… Please RT! #phdpositions PhD Positions #findaphd FindAPhD David Warton

Remove or retain: ecosystem effects of woody encroachment and removal are linked to plant structural and functional traits David John Eldridge Jingyi_arideco nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Thesis submitted today!🥳 A huge thanks to David John Eldridge for the solid supports and excellent supervision. Thanks my lab mates Samantha Travers Max Mallen-Cooper 🌿🌈 and all the people that help me in the past 3.5 yrs. Thanks for making my overseas PhD journey a fantastic and enjoyable one.

Soil resources become heterogeneous in arid environments, will the soil multifunctionality has the same response under drier climates? Our David John Eldridge new art in CATENA answer this question based on field surveys from the coast to deserts doi.org/10.1016/j.cate…

The first time I went to Norway, I was a little awestruck that so much of the ground was covered in thick mats of lichen. I’ve spent the last few summers looking at how different lichen species affect microclimate (findings now officially out: doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…)

Here's Cape Town University's William Bond's excellent video on the Untold Story of Grasses. Grasses created an open sunlit world, rich in plants and animals. They feed us and sustain our cities but are under threat. Learn more here buff.ly/30nQ9cR

Thanks Oatley Flora and Fauna Conservation Society for supporting my research and David John Eldridge for helps on the talk. It was a great opportunity to science communicate the whole PhD project to the public Ecosystem Science UNSW Science

Have you ever wonder how the whole plant community responds to increasing aridity?🤔 Our David John Eldridge paper in Biogeography.News can give you the answer! Tree, shrub and grass community have their own ways to cope with dryness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

New BioFunLab Pablo de Olavide art!! Journal of Ecology Interested in the links between soil microbial communities and plant germination?? This paper led by David John Eldridge is for you!! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Awesome collaboration w/ Prof Brajesh Singh Juntao WANG Jingyi_arideco

Community‐level responses to increasing dryness vary with plant growth form across an extensive aridity gradient. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

Unmanaged #kangaroos present major challengers for #agricultural producers. Our recent work shows benign effects of low kangaroo densities on soil health in a peri-urban environment doi.org/10.1111/emr.12… Samantha Travers Jingyi_arideco Aus Rangeland Soc

Very excited to share my first #TansleyReview in New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph.17… We combined a literature review w/ the analysis of global standardized databases & remote sensing products to synthesize our understanding of the biogeography of global drylands. Key highlihts are:

Early biocrust research at CSIRO Lake Mere Station from the early 1990s finally sees the light of day. Functional #traits of #biocrusts reinforce landscape-level patterning in mulga woodlands Jingyi_arideco Max Mallen-Cooper 🌿🌈 Ecosystem Science sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New in Geoderma: "Biocrust functional traits reinforce runon-runoff patchiness in drylands" by David Eldridge, Max Mallen-Cooper, and Jingyi Ding. buff.ly/3v9IufK

Soils in parks and roadsides provide critical #soilfunctions. How do old and new city soils compare in #westernSydney? Our paper out in Plant and Soil - great collaboration with Prof Brajesh Singh ManuDelgadoBaquerizo doi.org/10.1007/s11104…

Come and hear me talk about how ecosystems are responding to climate change and hear beautiful classical music from Luu Hong Quang (pictured, piano), Regina Buenaventura (violin) and Marcus Chun (guitar). 16 June, City Recital Hall, free. UNSW Science cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/event…

Oversea studying journey coming to the end. Got my Dr. title and the graduation photo (gown borrowed). Thanks everyone for making it an amazing experience. Job interviewing on the way, might start academic career in a Uni in Beijing. Keep contact, collaborate and stay safe.

Biocrust researchers ("crusties") love the analogy that soil mosses & lichens are like a big leaf stretched across the soil. They're both classic photosynthetic surfaces. Will Cornwell and I decided to test this analogy with actual data: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Do you want to monitor soil microbe dynamics in a quick-dirty way? Soil surface condition might be a go! Our Samantha Travers David John Eldridge new paper in Geoderma - the global #OA journal of soil science found close relationship between soil microbe and soil surface health in forests and shrublands.👉authors.elsevier.com/a/1dhe0_OJuFQMd

Time to become a UNSW Alumni when I found out my UNSW email being disabled this morning. Please contact via [email protected] and I will update when I finally settle down.