Battelle’s Post

Ever wonder about climate change’s effects on the interrelation between fungi and forests? Or about the impact of plant diversity management and intensification methods on grazing lands, or how using satellite data can inform us about plant traits? Read the new Inside Battelle blog, where we highlighting the latest research leveraging data from the NEON Program that we proudly operate for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Originally conceived at the turn of the millennium and designed to collect measurements for three decades, NEON is a U.S.-wide network of 81 field sites that offers the global scientific community access to rich, continent-scale datasets that are driving ecological research. https://okt.to/aYEZoJ

Ever wonder about climate change’s effects on the interrelation between fungi and forests? Or about the impact of plant diversity management and intensification methods on grazing lands, or how using satellite data can inform us about plant traits? Read the new Inside Battelle blog, where we highlighting the latest research leveraging data from the NEON Program that we proudly operate for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Originally conceived at the turn of the millennium and designed to collect measurements for three decades, NEON is a U.S.-wide network of 81 field sites that offers the global scientific community access to rich, continent-scale datasets that are driving ecological research. https://okt.to/3WQwOa

Not spatial resolution, not temporal resolution, but climate proximity is what ultimately matters. Indeed, in a new paper we show a 247% (!) improvement in ecological model performance using proximal microclimate data. I break this important concept down for you in this new blogpost: https://lnkd.in/eu8RFYZ3 A truly important paper (a landmark paper, I'd say), led by the always amazing David Klinges, now published in @GEB_macro. Written with a whole bunch of great minds from the SoilTemp network. The paper can be found here: https://lnkd.in/ePpDrsuB

Greening and browning: how the forest condition changed during last 20 years in the European temperate zone? Check out our (together with Agata Hościło) latest research article "Temporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness for the Main Forest-Forming Tree Species in the European Temperate Zone" 👇 👇 https://lnkd.in/dftfNFbX

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Chang Liu and Koenraad Van Meerbeek applied joint species distribution models (SDM) to explore the responses of grassland communities in Europe to climate and land cover change under different future scenarios. Check out the interesting article below! https://lnkd.in/eGnGbuPZ

An #NSFfunded study reveals an ideal tree property that makes some regions of the Amazon rainforest more drought-resilient.🔥💧🌳 In southern Amazonia (near the Brazilian Shield rock formation), forests have shorter trees with shorter roots. According to researchers, these trees depend on shallow water tables — making the forests in the region less drought-resilient. Conversely, forests in the northern Amazon's Guiana Shield were more drought resilient because the trees there grow tall and their roots deep (reaching shallow and deep-water tables alike). "This is an innovative approach to thinking about the other side of drought, the unseen belowground component," says Kendra McLauchlan, a program director in the NSF Division of Environmental Biology. Studies like this help us understand the regional differences across the Amazon rainforest — knowledge critical to improving predictions of forest responses to climate change and informing conservation efforts. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4dc35pH 📷: Neil Palmer/CIAT #NSFfunded

William Dietrich (Miller Professor 1998) is a co-author of the paper "Anticipating responses to climate change and planning for resilience in California’s freshwater ecosystems," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It calls on California leaders to do more to recover degraded freshwater ecosystems and protect the resilience, health, and viability of existing ecosystems. #ecology #ecosystems #climate #science #stem #millerfellow

Good to see the exploration of how using the REDD framework for monitoring the success of protecting forests continuing with some more peer-reviewed science. I am sure that The Guardian will be featuring these insightful findings as headline news today in their relentless pursuit of balance in their reporting 😉 #forests #science

Shuyan Zhan, Huixuan Li, Zoey Xu, Demiao S., Ryan Shen, and I are happy to share our masters capstone project. This ArcGIS StoryMap examines the growth and distribution of deer tick populations in Pennsylvania. This is a free resource that residents are encouraged to use!

🐟What does #climatechange have in store for Pacific Coast fish? 📈Julia Indivero's quantitative #research is modeling fish distribution as it's impacted by ocean oxygen and temperature. 💡How is this information useful for managing future #fisheries? Find out in our newest research article with Julia, a PhD student in SAFS in the University of Washington College of the Environment. https://lnkd.in/g3hhEV7W