‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farms. Commentary on likely positive impacts on fish by Prof Suthers UNSW Science smh.com.au/environment/co…

Using machine learning to link #climate, #phylogeny & #leaf area in eucalypts through a 50-fold expansion of leaf trait datasets🍂 Karina Guo (she/her) @jasongbragg Botanic Gardens of Sydney UNSW Science besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

🤖 Our scientists are using machine learning to delve into the untold history of #plants. Using datasets of unprecedented size, they can now can unlock hidden secrets of the botanical past. 👇 Read the full story bit.ly/4bR1WCV

The next generation of trait ecology will involve measurements with some element of automation. We've tried to pilot some of that for leaf size here with herbarium sheets. Amazing work with Karina Guo (she/her) and @jasongbragg: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13

Termites drive plant decomposition in Australian arid lands, with their influence varying across landscapes. Higher wood availability increases termite activity and their contribution to decomposition. @BapsWijas #AustralEcology Ecological Society of Australia Wiley Ecology & Evolution bit.ly/45RFqsl

Fungi are in the air… but their functional diversity and sporulation strategies vary from temperate to the tropical. Check the great work led by Nerea Abrego Faculty of Mathematics and Science combining global surveys with fungal trait data! Happy to have contributed! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Really excited to be running this workshop in my home town. Please come along if you are near Gunnedah on Sunday 25 Aug.

How citizen science can support threatened species conservation. Thomas Mesaglio Jodi Rowley Will Cornwell theconversation.com/citizen-scient…

It is out😊New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A collaboration funded by DAAD News allowed us to discuss AM fungal traits integrating perspectives from mycorrhizal, and plant and microbial ecologists Jeff Powell Carlos Aguilar-T 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 🇸🇻 🇫🇮 Matthias C. Rillig Will Cornwell Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan @HeuckMeike

It's time to update how we think about life-history traits for AM fungi! Another great paper led by Tessa Camenzind

Our research group UF IFAS Wildlife and UF/IFAS FLREC is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher focused on quantitative ecology! Pay: 65-75k USD. Looking for someone to start late 2024 or early 2025. - Experience or interest in working with state and federal agencies a must!

Keen to do environmental science with impact? Come join us UNSW Science Apply at: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5277…

New research often revises species taxonomies. Without a clear crosswalk, old datasets & studies can be challenging to amalgamate. #R package APCalign helps solve this, aligning names to #AustralianPlantCensus. Elizabeth Wenk & colleagues UNSW UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences doi.org/10.1071/BT24014

Congrats to iNaturalist 🇦🇺 for five laps around the sun! ☀️ 📊🤳 Thanks to you amazing #citizenscientists, they've just hit: - 9,000,000 species observations... - Of 60,000 different species... - From 100,000 observers! Read more below: 📚🔗 | spr.ly/6013qKWRh

📸Karina Guo (she/her) tells us the story behind this month's cover image: 🍂'I was going through hundreds of #herbarium sheets & realised that centuries of info across the globe were just waiting for someone to transcribe it as a digital dataset we can analyse' jecologyblog.com/2024/10/22/cov…

Wild herbivores' impacts on vegetation in arid Australia translate to soil seedbanks shorturl.at/no5bn. Tongtong Xu shows that seed density increased along an aridity gradient and that herbivores suppressed seed density at the most arid site. Will Cornwell @BapsWijas

Hearing the NBA and Warner struck a deal for WBD to move out of the NBA’s house after this season. There will be no lawsuit. Zaslav got some much-smaller-stakes stuff to go away for good. Will Inside the NBA get licensed to ESPN next season? That’s the next subplot to watch.

New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… We compiled master plant species lists for 2 of the 5 oldest national parks: Royal (Australia) and Yosemite (USA) by combining herbarium vouchers + iNaturalist records + official expert park lists, extensively manually curating all records.

Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter Wijas et al. @BapsWijas Will Cornwell @AmyZanne 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WWDDDMRE…

This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋 Check out the app: spr.ly/60174PzBZ Made by UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Thomas Mesaglio @[email protected] Will Cornwell and team. spr.ly/60184PzBw #rstats #Shiny #ecology