Moved to 🦋…🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳 Professor🌳Editor @ESAApplications🎋Past Chair @ESAVegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow @YaleEnvironment (Fall 2023)

Syracuse, New York, USA
Joined August 2022
Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf @SUNY
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Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. Now switching to study plant communities @ temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.
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Martin Dovciak🌱🌻🌳 retweeted
🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. See 🦋 for details. @sunyesf @SUNY @BrookhavenLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. See 🦋 for details. @sunyesf @SUNY @BrookhavenLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It was great hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf @SUNY! @Editor_EApp @ESAApplications @ESA_org
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🥁New paper from our Northeastern Mountain 🏔️ Network❗️More details on 🦋. @sunyesf @SUNY doi.org/10.1007/s10021-025-0…
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Done! A new experiment now set up on our mountain 🏔️ forest 🌳🌲site network in 4 Northeastern US states to test how seed rain, microsites, & herbivory interact to affect early stages of climate-induced tree migrations. Led by Dr. Nathan Kiel, @even_kiel25, post-doc in our group.
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A lovely visit to Baltimore @ESA_org meeting last week. So many great talks! Also great to see many colleagues+meeting new ones. A splendid day in the woods at @SmithsonianEnv w/great info about #NEON. Our lab had four presentations & we are now ready for a new semester @sunyesf.
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Adding the 4th & very important presentation @ESA_org from our lab - lead by our former PhD student, amazing Jordon Tourville, now a research ecologist @AppMtnClub. Come check out his talk on the non-climatic controls of climate-driven tree migrations: Thu, COS-168, 4:15pm
Our lab has 3 presentations @ESA_org meeting in Baltimore. Check them out if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm)
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Our lab has 3 presentations @ESA_org meeting in Baltimore. Check them out if you are interested in vegetation change over space or time under changing climate or disturbance regime. Lumbsden-Pinto: Tue, COS 046 (10:15am); Dovciak: Wed, COS 118 (3:45pm); Kiel: Wed, PS-29-046 (5pm)
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🏆 Congrats 2 Rachel Hopkins @sunyesf for her honorable mention 3rd place in the young scientist oral presentation award @IAVS5 meeting in Greeley, Colorado, for her talk on changing plant distributions on the famous Whiteface Mountain of New York State. iavs.org/page/awards_oral-pr…
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Our lab is represented at the @IAVS5 meeting by Rachel Hopkins who will discuss how elevational distributions of plants changed over 60 years with climate warming on the legendary Whiteface Mountain of New York State. If you can, check her talk out: Aug. 2, 1:30 PM, Spruce Suites
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Martin Dovciak🌱🌻🌳 retweeted
Have you ever wondered what fire 🔥 & One Health have in common? If so read the new #BioScience @AIBSbiology review👇 led by Sam Gilvarg, a PhD student @sunyesf @SUNY. I was happy to contribute to this multi-author effort integrating diverse perspectives. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf0…
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#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 2. Crete has a fun mix of hardy native trees such as the Mediterranean juniper & olive (top) as well as many trees introduced from across the world, some of which have been cultivated in Crete for centuries such as date palm & pomegranate (bottom).
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#Mediterranean #Botany, Part 3. The Mediterranean open scrub (phrygana, garrigue) has a desert-like summer climate & it occurs on rockier & more disturbed sites than taller & denser Mediterranean maquis (macchia, chaparral). The plants here are fascinating! Do you know these few?
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