Associate professor at UNSW. Interested in the ecology and evolution of plants.
San Francisco⇢Amsterdam⇢Sydney
Joined August 2010
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Results from a globally replicated experiment: microbes respond to temperature in a very well known way, but termites are much more sensitive to temperature. Termites are massively understudied for how important they are globally, and warming is likely to make them more important
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This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋
Check out the app: spr.ly/60174PzBZ
Made by @unswbees @thomasmesaglio @fonti_kar @will_cornwell and team.
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#rstats #Shiny #ecology
ALT Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio
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Faster than expected: release of nitrogen and phosphorus from decomposing woody litter
Wijas et al. @BapsWijas @will_cornwell @AmyZanne
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
ALT Nutrient release curves and carbon : nitrogen ratio of woody litter against the proportion of mass remaining.
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New paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.202…
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.
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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.
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Wild herbivores' impacts on vegetation in arid Australia translate to soil seedbanks shorturl.at/no5bn. @TongtongXu16 shows that seed density increased along an aridity gradient and that herbivores suppressed seed density at the most arid site. @willcornwelll @BapsWijas
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📸@dandy_gumnut 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/…
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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
ALT Mallee ringneck parrot (Barnardius zonarius spp. barnardi) perched on a branch against the iNaturalist Au logo
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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 @unswbees doi.org/10.1071/BT24014
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Keen to do environmental science with impact? Come join us @UNSWScience Apply at: external-careers.jobs.unsw.e…
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Our research group @UFWildlife and @UFIFAS_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!
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It's time to update how we think about life-history traits for AM fungi! Another great paper led by @t_camenzind
Revisiting life-history theory in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with stoichiometric principles
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#Viewpoint by Camenzind et al.
@t_camenzind @jsoilecol @AguilarT_CA, @mrillig
#arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi
ALT Similarity in stoichiometric patterns in plant and AM fungi and its implication for life-history trade-offs.
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It is out😊@NewPhyt nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
A collaboration funded by @DAAD_Germany allowed us to discuss AM fungal traits integrating perspectives from mycorrhizal, and plant and microbial ecologists @jsoilecol @AguilarT_CA @mrillig @will_cornwell @SolomonMcMahan @HeuckMeike
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How citizen science can support threatened species conservation. @thomasmesaglio @jodirowley @will_cornwell theconversation.com/citizen-…
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Really excited to be running this workshop in my home town. Please come along if you are near Gunnedah on Sunday 25 Aug.
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Fungi are in the air…
but their functional diversity and sporulation strategies vary from temperate to the tropical.
Check the great work led by @AbregoNerea @jyuscience combining global surveys with fungal trait data! Happy to have contributed!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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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 @EcolSocAus @WileyEcolEvol bit.ly/45RFqsl
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🤖 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 @dandy_gumnut and @jasongbragg: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Using machine learning to link #climate, #phylogeny & #leaf area in eucalypts through a 50-fold expansion of leaf trait datasets🍂
@dandy_gumnut @jasongbragg @BotanicSydney @UNSWScience besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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‘Absolutely incorrect’: The evidence is in on whales and offshore wind farms. Commentary on likely positive impacts on fish by Prof Suthers @UNSWScience smh.com.au/environment/conse…
