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Mark Westoby @WestobyMark

evolution and ecology, mainly plants

Joined May 2013
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leaving twitter. Will post occasionally at @westobymark.bsky.social
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Memorial Lecture Feb 26 2025 @ANU Fenner School. David Brand: The Evolution of Forestry into a Natural Capital Asset Class. fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news…

Jack Westoby Lecture 2025: The Evolution of Forestry into a Natural Capital Asset Class

The Jack Westoby Lecture recognises the contribution to forestry internationally by Jack Westoby (1912-1988). The Biennial Lecture Series was initiated in 1997 and is made possible by the generosity...

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Raina MacIntyre
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29 Oct 2024
Very concerning findings that #H5N1 from an infected human shows adaptation to mamalian spread, airborne spread in ferrets, and lethal to mice and ferrets. Highest virus replication in the lung. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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Arko Lucieer@TerraLuma
22 Oct 2024
Distinguished Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick passed away yesterday. A beloved colleague at the heart of our School for 50 years @UTAS_ , his kindness, dedication, and commitment to the Tasmanian environment will not be forgotten. He will be missed.
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Trait-based ecology, trait-free ecology and in between nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/… @mqnatsci
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Schrader et al "Islands are key for protecting the world's plant endemism" @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @Weigelt_P @lrcai @FdezPalaciosLab @IslandKostas @BioGeoKreft
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Rob Kooyman @mqnatsci theguardian.com/australia-ne…

They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are...

Rainforest trees at Nightcap national park have not evolved to deal with bushfires, leaving the landscape vulnerable for years after major burns

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Eucalypt Australia - Archived@EucalyptAus
13 May 2024
EXHIBITION ALERT: Visit "Anatomy Of The Angophora" at Ditty Wheels Gallery in Willoughby, NSW. The debut solo exhibition of artist Tim Owers celebrates the magnificent Sydney Red Gum, Angophora costata - our 2023 #EucalyptoftheYear! #LoveAGum timowers.com.au/exhibitions/…

Exhibition | Anatomy Of The Angophora | Tim Owers | May 2024

Solo Exhibition by Tim Owers | May 2024 | Ditty Wheels Gallery | Willoughby, Sydney

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terrific is the right word! -- I hadn't known of this
Ralph Stefan Weir@RalphStefanWeir
19 Apr 2024
My favourite paper by Daniel Dennett is "Where Am I?" A terrific combination of philosophy with narrative and humour lehigh.edu/~mhb0/Dennett-Whe…
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Truly sorry about Dennett's passing. A great philosopher, took biology seriously, and a very considerate person as I had reason to know.
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Up the Australian east coast, an average of 14% of plant species are lost per oC increase in mean annual temperature, and 20% are gained. @Oikos_Journal doi.org/10.1111/oik.10556
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1/3 Nice new paper from Sanchez-Martinez et al @MethodsEcolEvol about role of phylogeny in ecological comparisons across spp besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…. Two key messages aligned with Westoby et al 2023 @Jecol doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14….
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2/3 Msg 1: where covar between traits across species is also phylogenetically conservative, the phylo conservative share should be separately quantified, rather than being partialled out of the trait relationship.
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3/3 Msg 2: this can be done using multi-response phylogenetic mixed models MR-PMMs.
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Jaco Le Roux@JacoLeRoux01
4 Jan 2024
📢PhD scholarships!!! Fancy #rhizobia #invasionbiology #networkecology #microbes #botany, #fieldwork in three countries? Then this project @mqnatsci (with @ananovoaperez & @DaveRichSBosch) is for you! See surl.li/odiralink. Applications close 20-2-24. Please RT!

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Jack Westoby Memorial Lecture 21st Nov @ANUFennerSchool; Claudia Romero and Jack Putz, Active Forestry to Improve the Fates of Tropical Forests
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draliceevans.substack.com?ut… Nice overview of Claudia Goldin's work. Captures the history of feminism, at least in USA.
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A blog commentary (portuguese and english versions) on the possibility of a new communally-developed curriculum for ecology marcoarmello.wordpress.com/2… via @SobrevivendoNC, modeled on the wonderful CORE-Econ core-econ.org/.
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Journal of Ecology@JEcology
29 Aug 2023
📢J.P. Grime transformed the study of #plant #ecology, say 14 prominent scientists. 👇This piece kicks off our 3rd Grime Reviews Series with an assessment of his legacy: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Perspectives on the scientific legacy of J. Philip Grime

J.P. Grime transformed the study of plant ecology and helped shepherd the field toward international prominence as a nexus of ideas related to global environmental change. This commentary piece for...

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Sandra Diaz@sdiazecology
8 Aug 2023
El MinCyT ha financiado CONATURAR, nuestra Red Federal de Acto Impacto, sobre contribuciones de la naturaleza para la gente desde la puna jujeña a Tierra del Fuego. Gran entusiasmo! Aquí explicamos de qué se trata 👇 bit.ly/RedCONATURAR @IMBIVCONICETUNC @CONICETDialoga

IMBIV-CONICET-UNC@IMBIVCONICETUNC
8 Aug 2023
𝗦𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝘀 𝟮𝟯 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼 bit.ly/RedCONATURAR (Inicia hilo)
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