@DroughtNet

Global network of experiments to understand how ecosystems respond to drought. Funded by @NSF.

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Joined May 2018
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Happy shortest night of the year from the Norwegian heathlands and one of the wettest (and possibly the shortest) @DroughtNet sites!
Dramatic stormy skies over a calm bay with very short rainout shelters and a heathland in the foreground.

ALT Dramatic stormy skies over a calm bay with very short rainout shelters and a heathland in the foreground.

View from underneath a rainout shelter that’s fenced in against sheep, toward the bay at a sunnier time.

ALT View from underneath a rainout shelter that’s fenced in against sheep, toward the bay at a sunnier time.

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Are you happy when plants are sad? Then submit an abstract to our AGU session on drought by Aug 2! Organized with @JuliaKGreen1 and @merneovine. agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/prel…
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SalGo Team@SalGoTeam10 Mar 2023
Despite the snow and rain, we were able to go to @WythamWoods this week to start UAVs training. We are waiting for the growing season to start sampling! @DroughtNet @DragnetGlobal @e_borer
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"Traits that distinguish dominant species across aridity gradients differ from those that respond to soil moisture" One of the first projects I worked on in grad school is now published! Check it out here: rdcu.be/c3sbG link.springer.com/article/10…
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@DroughtNet Southern hemisphere spring and treatment application on the Ukulinga NPKD plots
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Microbes play a critical role in helping plants deal with drought. New paper by @KBSLTER scientists @jenmj321, Emma Boehm, Kevin Kahmark, @JenLauEvoEco, & @evanssarahe finds response of microbial community to drought depended on the crop species present. online.ucpress.edu/elementa/…
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US LTER@USLTER12 Oct 2022
A great @ucsb_nceas roundtable by the Drought Synthesis Group showed how coordinated, distributed experiments such as @DroughtNet lead to great ecological insight—especially when they have global representation, are easy to join, and have motivated researchers onboard.
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Jeff Dukes@DukesJeff25 Aug 2022
Across 100 sites globally, @DroughtNet found that extreme drought cut grassland production much more than might have been suspected. Science Magazine covered the group's first-year results presented at #ESA2022 by @CubanKate! Very relevant today. science.org/content/article/…

Scientists exposed plants to a yearlong drought. The result is worrying for climate change

Global experiment found ability of grasses and shrubs to store carbon suffered

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Our paper is published at @NatureComms today! We found that vegetation sensitivity to precipitation has increased in the drylands and decreased in the wet regions during the past four decades. CO2 is the major cause for these divergent trends. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Increasing sensitivity of dryland vegetation greenness to precipitation due to rising atmospheric...

Nature Communications - Changes in vegetation responses to precipitation may be hydroclimate dependent. Here the authors reveal contrasting trends of vegetation sensitivity to precipitation in...

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Amazing view from the top! Installing sapflow and dendrometers @ICOS_RI Hurdal to see how mature Norway Spruce respond to drought and high temperatures @MorganeMerlin1 @NIBIO_no @UniNMBU
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Doing drought stuff at Cedar Creek 😊
Dr. Amy C. Churchill@ACChurchill_Eco29 Apr 2022
Shelters are up for the drought in an old-field chronosequence project @CedarCreekESR @EcologistMaggie @nehamohanbabu @k_castillioni @FarahFarahc @USDA_NIFA #grasslands
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📢Leaf plasticity helps Quercus ilex to tolerate moderate #drought but not severe water stress 🍃 Check our last 📰in @PlantCellEnvir led by J.M. Limousin 👇👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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#droughts can be spatially propagated & exacerbated through reduced downwind moisture transport & rainfall @NatureGeosci #climate doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-0…
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Henry Adams@EnvEcoLab6 Apr 2022
Have a question for the plant #ecophys folks out there. How do you define INTRINSIC water use efficiency? Ratio of fluxes, ratio of C isotopes? can you tell me a WUE that is not intrinsic? Asking for myself, would love to hear some opinions.
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We are hiring! The new School of Natural Sciences at MQ is looking for plant biologists, especially in plant ecology, ecophysiology and plant-focused urban ecology and sustainability: mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Car…
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Check out the new @DragnetGlobal website & see how we are growing. @NutNetGlobal @USLTER @umncbs @LG_Shoemaker @LaurenShoe4 @e_seabloom @e_borer #OpenScience #Disturbance #Nitrogen #Phosphorus #Ecosystems #Grasslands #Biodiversity #GlobalChange dragnetglobal.weebly.com/
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Join us at the HIE! We're seeking a Senior Technical Support Officer to support a range of eddy covariance and experimental climate change facilities at Western Sydney University (Hawkesbury Campus). For more details and to apply: seek.com.au/job/56412153?typ… Please share!
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TBI@TeaBagIndex29 Mar 2022
Who wants to help us to compare tea bags this summer? We are performing a ring test and are looking for people that want to bury ca. 200 bags. Northern europe is already covered but other geographic areas are wished for!
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Jeff Dukes@DukesJeff8 Feb 2022
Help us study trees and water stress in Indiana forests–apply to be a research technician! Full-time job w benefits working @PurdueFNR’s Martell Forest. Work with me, @ElinMJacobs, @i6paudel, collab. w/@RichPhillipsLab, @Novick_Lab_IU & more. Qs to me. careers.purdue.edu/job/West-…
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WK Smith 🌎@Wkolby21 Jan 2022
Beautiful day at #RainManSR in the Santa Rita Experimental Range for winter precipitation treatments w/ @jacobjblais @UASNRE @uazresearch @uazenvironment
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