One of the nicest use of multiple working hypotheses (and predictions) in a correlative study that I've seen in quite a while: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Another heliconia-hummingbird field season begins at Las Cruces Biological Station! Alas, this time without me due to a hamstring tear. Video from indomitable PhD student Ferne Kotlyar (green hermit at Heliconia tortuosa).

The intrepid Ferne Kotlyar continues her fascinating work to resolve the pollination paradox (how plants avoid mating with neighbors when animals optimally forage). #hummingbird #pollination

Re-reading this classic after a 30-year gap(!) and again laughing out loud and appreciating the brilliance of Farley Mowat.

JOB ALERT! This is a good one.....I should know having spent 20 years of my career at SMBC. Seriously don't let this one slip by without applying. RT please

My lab group at CSU is recruiting for a new PhD student. For more details see here - sites.google.com/rams.colostate…

Great to see the EU policy considering forest degradation. Next step- make sure that degradation is accurately quantified. Quantifying forest degradation requires a long-term, landscape-scale approach | Nature Ecology & Evolution nature.com/articles/s4155…

Exciting to see the new Rafik Anadol sculpture Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts - the AI-generated visual representation of terabytes of our songbird bioacoustics data from Andrews Forest and the PNW Bioacoustics Project. "When computers dream about bird song". David Hill lurking in back.

It's been a tough few years for the Andrews Forest HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and US LTER with the fires, and the Oregon State Foundation & Alumni Association OSU Foundation is helping us recover. Please consider contributing: damproudday.org/campaigns/h-j-…

AI for acoustic auto-recognition of murrelets. Congrats to lead Adam Duarte! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Oregon researchers threaten to to use AI to study coastal seabirds... (word placement is everything) opb.org/article/2024/0…

As many questions as answers in this paper: Why such a strong latitudinal gradient in forest species, even after accounting for expected high tropical richness? It is only partially due to high (historical) forest amount. Twitter thoughts appreciated. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

How can biodiversity conservation improve the climate crisis? academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

If anyone is going to European Conservation Biology next week and would like to meet up, please DM me. Should be a fun meeting. Presenting on carbon and biodiversity in managed forests.

Cool paper alert, with high relevance to climate envelope models: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations Kendall Jefferys for your first scientific paper (and on hummingbirds no less)! Impressive use of species distribution models and long-term BBS data to uncover drivers of rufous hummingbird population declines: ace-eco.org/vol19/iss2/art…

Here we go again: the Ore (2024) fire is pressing in on the NW corner of the Andrews Forest US LTER and threatening to burn what remains of our green forest after the Lookout Fire. Fingers crossed that firefighters remain safe and that the fireline at the HJA boundary holds.

Really nice interview with Dave Herasimtschuk on old growth in the PNW: npr.org/sections/the-p… Andrews Forest US LTER