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Jim Dalling

@dallingjim.bsky.social

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Professor of tropical forest ecology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Tropical soils, seeds and fungal interactions. Mostly Panama, mostly montane.

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Jim Dalling @dallingjim.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Hi Martin - I would like to join too - representing montane and premontane forests in Panama. Jim

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Jim Dalling @dallingjim.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

🧪 Happy to share a link to our Tansley Review on wood nutrients: underexplored functional traits. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... We highlight the enormous variation in wood nutrient concentrations among species, links to masting, resprouting and ecosystem carbon via decomposition.

Sapwood phosphorus concentrations for temperate, subtropical and tropical trees

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Jim Dalling @dallingjim.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Publish paper with zombie in the title? ✅ Read about a unique species of tree fern endemic to Panama that converts the vascular tissue of its dead leaves into roots for nutrient uptake. news.illinois.edu/view/6367/11... Illustration: Camila Pizano; Coloring: Michael B. Vincent

Drawing of Cyathea rojasiana from Fortuna, Panama showing the old senescent leaves reoriented to the ground and which sprout fine roots from existing leaf vascular tissue

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