Great Meeting & Mixer, new connections, and a fantastic evening at the ESA 2026 Vegetation Section!
Thank you to everyone who joined us to network with colleagues, celebrate our community, and welcome new section leadership. We look forward to seeing you next year! #ESA2026
Congratulations to Gibbs et al. 2026, recipients of the 2026 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the ESA Vegetation Section for the best paper in vegetation science!
Congratulations on this outstanding contribution to vegetation ecology!
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#ESA2026
The ESA Vegetation Section is accepting nominations for the Robert P. McIntosh Award, recognizing the best paper in vegetation ecology published in the previous year.
Deadline: May 31
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Applications are open for the ESA Vegetation Section Ton Damman Award, recognizing the best student oral presentation in vegetation ecology at the #ESA2026 Annual Meeting.
Deadline: May 31
esa.org/saltlake2026/esa-sup….
The ESA Vegetation Section is accepting nominations for the Robert P. McIntosh Award, recognizing the best paper in vegetation ecology published in the previous year.
Deadline: May 31
esa.org/saltlake2026/esa-sup…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
📢 Call for Abstracts!
A new Twin Special Issue on “History of Vegetation Science” is now open 🌿
Explore the evolution of ideas, methods, and people shaping vegetation science.
📅 Deadline: 30 April 2026
🔗 Read more & Submit
vegsciblog.org/2026/01/13/tw…
#VegetationScience #CallForAbstracts #PhD #Research#IAVS
The Ton Damman Award honors the best graduate student oral presentation at the ESA 2025
Congratulations to E. Takyi and coauthors, 2025 recipients, for their work showing how fire suppression reshapes woody communities and functional traits in savannas.
esa.org/vegetation/awards/to…
The Robert P. McIntosh Award 🎉
Congratulations to Jalene M. LaMontagne and coauthors, winners of the 2025 award for their work linking community-level seed production synchrony to traits and climate across North America.
esa.org/vegetation/awards/ro…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
Applications open: We seek budding science communicators across the field! Fellows earn training, mentorship, a $3,000 stipend and plenty of support as they develop comms projects for U.S. National Park Service teams. Apply by 4/2! esa.org/programs/scip/fellow…
ALT A collage of a scientist taking data in a forest, with a cascading brook and superimposed text describing the program -- click through for full information and to register.
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
🔔Interested in patterns & drivers of🌳species range shifts across temperate-boreal forest biome transitions under a changing climate❓If so & you are in the area, check out my talk on Nov. 30 @yaleforestry @YaleEnvironment on my lab's research @sunyesf.
yaleconnect.yale.edu/TFS/rsv…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
So happy to share our new paper, published in Remote Sensing of Environment: 🛩️🌳 "Using airborne LiDAR to map forest microclimate temperature buffering or amplification"!
doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.1…
Here's a small thread with the major results + a free share link for full access ⬇️
ALT This is the graphical abstract of the paper. In short, here are the highlights: ● Airborne LiDAR is ideal to predict forest thermal environment at a high resolution ● We used Maximum height, Plant Area & Vertical Complexity Index as structure metrics ● Forest structure explained 91 % of microclimate variability at a 10-m resolution ● We mapped the buffering or amplification effect of forest on microclimate temperature ● Ecologists, conservationists and forest managers would highly benefit from such maps
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
Love this new seed banking for restoration project at @HFandG! And seeing ecologists in the news. ideastream.org/environment-e… great story by @Ida_in_Cle for @ideastream -- watch the video!
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
Excellent post doc opportunity: slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-… Thresholds and tipping points to global warming: plant and soil communities, field work in NZ and Japan, life in northern Sweden, work with @PaulKardol what's not to love? Please share
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
We are hiring an Assistant Professor in #Horticulture @ucdavis @UCDavisPlants We'd be grateful if you could share this post among your graduating students, postdocs, suitable candidates and professional networks. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06062
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
🔔New paper on🍄&🌳❗️ Proximity to an old-growth forest edge & ectomycorrhizal tree islands enhance fungal colonization of ectomycorrhizal tree seedlings in secondary forest soils! Kudos to Dr. Andy Cortese from Tom Horton's lab @sunyesf! @plantandsoil
link.springer.com/article/10…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
Identifying Mozambique's most critical areas for plant conservation: An evaluation of protected areas and Important Plant Areas - Richards - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
Trees grow their stem mostly at night to avoid high vapor pressure deficits.
Quite a surprise to me - never miss the link to physiological processes!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
🔔New paper❗️ Treelines in the U.S. Northeast shifted upslope by 3 m/decade on average w/climate warming. Treeline form, topography, & mesoclimate affected the magnitude of the shift! Kudos to @JordonTourville for this PhD work @sunyesf w/@AppMtnClub!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
#ESA2023 More from our great Joint Social with @ESA_org Vegetation Panel & North American Chapter of @IAVS5. Below, @Alyssa_Young3 receiving her 2023 Robert P. McIntosh Award from yours truly for the best recent paper in vegetation ecology. doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-0…
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
We are advertising a PhD project studying beautiful heath forests in Borneo with NERC DTP #IAPETUS2 with me, @francisbrearley, @GiacoSellan and Jill Thompson, CEH. Deadline 8th Jan. Details👇
ESA Vegetation Section retweeted
🚨Job Alert🚨@mwlr_nz is hiring a permanent Forest Ecology Researcher! If you have a PhD in Forest/Plant Ecology and are looking to lead and collaborate with ecologists to understand forest ecosystems, this might be the job for you!🌳rb.gy/a6vmh
