Busy Friday! Congratulations to Jordon Tourville for an excellent PhD capstone seminar & defense. Jordon studied how biotic interactions affect tree range shifts under changing climate along montane elevational gradients. His first paper is here:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13993

#NSFfunded #TreeSeedlings #JournalOfEcology #Mountains

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https://ecoevo.social/@DovciakLab/109411628386495880

Forest canopy gaps can have varied effects on tree seedling distributions over elevation, and thus on potential species elevational range shifts over time. These effects seem to be greater at higher elevations where (a) canopy openness is greater, and (b) conifers (spruce, fir) exhibit positive responses to canopy openness.

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13993

#JournalofEcology #NSFfunded #Forest #ForestGap #TreeDemography #ClimaticGradient #ElevationGradient
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