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Christopher Dick

@chrisdick.bsky.social

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Prof of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, plant curator at MICH, Director of E.S. George Reserve, research on trees, tropical forests; from the Allegheny Front in Pennsylvania

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Any forest ecology types out there have experience with "Swedish Tree Grippers"? Seriously considering acquiring some for canopy work but they are costly.

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just got a #blinkcamera clip of #bobcats in a territorial standoff at my cottage. Worth listening to the audio. #AlleghenyFront #Pennsylvania

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Thursday lab at the Mud Lake bog -- an exciting finale for a semester of field botany and marking the 60th anniversary of the "Woody Plants" class at @UMich @UMSEAS and #UMichEEB

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Pleased to be hosting my earliest mentor in tropical field botany Michael Nee who will be speaking at the #MICH Herbarium tomorrow (Halloween, Friday, noon-1, Oct 31) on the "Origin of Pumpkins and Squashes". Members of the public are welcome

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Following the fantastic #ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca I visited the Tree of Tule, a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) with the world's stoutest trunk. It's highly buttressed but even after smoothing it is thicker than the largest sequoia with a smoothed diameter of 30.8 feet. #bigtrees

cypress tree with 30 foot diameter trunk

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'll be talking about hyperdominant tropical tree species at #ATBC2025 in #Oaxaca, including some recent work on Eschweilera coriacea, which despite being possibly the most common tropical tree in the world (~5 billion trees in the Amazon basin) can be hard to identify and is poorly studied.

picture of tagged tree of Eschweilera coriacea

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thais Vasconcelos @tvasconcelos.bsky.social will be the new Director of the Univ. of Michigan Herbarium starting in January -- and the first woman to fill this role in our herbarium's >100 year history. Congrats Thais!

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

finally read the small print in this poster-- #botany power!

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Osculate is a literary word meaning to kiss. Inosculate is when two trees accidentally become grafted to each other and exchange sap. Our #WoodyPlants class found this pair of osculating maple trees near Milan— note the smaller tree is so well fed that its trunk is larger above the graft. #botany

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

And in local news, deer-vehicle collisions are skyrocketing ever since Ann Arbor's City Council tabled the city's deer management program. The map below shows deer-vehicle crashes in 2023. #A2council

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Introducing 3R11L, a Blanding's turtle first marked by a U-Mich grad student in 1954 and recaptured 70 times since. She is 94 years old and laid 11 eggs this summer. She resides at the E.S. George Reserve, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pictures courtesy of Justin Congdon & Matt Cross

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