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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fieldtrip throwback during #ESA26: a very hot, very fun day exploring Red Butte Canyon in SLC ☀️🌳! Huge thanks to our fantastic guides, Sarah Hinners, Nicole Smeeding, Alison Dernbach and Austin Green, for sharing their knowledge 👏

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📣 Southwest Chapter Mixer is 6:30PM tonight at Bewilder Brewing! Come and connect with ecologists working in arid and semi-arid ecosystems! Looking forward to seeing everyone there 🌭🍺

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Looking for the Southwest Chapter at ESA 2026? You can find us at our table in the exhibit hall or at one of our events! We have an organized oral session, a business mixer and a career central event. We are excited to see everyone in Salt Lake City!🌵

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

⏰ only 5 days left to apply for Travel Award for #ESA26 in SLC!

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

2026 Southwest Ecologist Travel Award is open! 🌵 We will award $550 each to 4 early-career ecologists presenting research related to ecosystems of the Southwestern US or northern Mexico at the 2026 ESA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. Apply by June 14, 2026: forms.gle/TjMaY6T7GQt6...

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Southwest Ecologist Awards ($550 travel award)

We are excited to announce the 2026 Southwest Ecologist Travel award ($550)! Funding will be awarded to four early career (students and post-graduates) and/or federal agency ecologists whose work is r...

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Voting is now open for the ESA Southwestern Chapter 2026–2027 officer positions!👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are also still seeking nominations for Event Coordinator and Social Media Manager, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague! 🌵

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2026-2027 ESA Southwest Chapter Elections

The Southwest Chapter officer elections for the next term (2026-2027) are here! We appreciate our colleagues' participation in electing our next leadership cohort. Please take your time reviewing th...

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🔊ESA Southwestern Chapter is seeking nominations for 2026-2027 positions! No prior Chapter/Section experience needed - just an interest in Southwest ecosystems, academic service, outreach, and community building. Current officers are eligible for re-election.

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Excited to announce another new workshop! *Intro to Stable Isotope Ecology* on 4/30 will help participants understand both the theory behind isotope variation in ecological systems and the analytical tools to interpret the datasets. ow.ly/EKrO50Yz8oB

Close-up photo of biological samples suspended in liquid in test tubes. Superimposed text describes the event. Click through for full information and to register.

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Get social with us at #ESA2026! Opportunities for ecologists to meet up and relax, talk shop, network and grow together are important, and we're glad to be able to support them as part of the Annual Meeting. Request your social event for Salt Lake City by April 16! ow.ly/kPgJ50Yzij6

Early career ecologists network together during a mixer at the Baltimore Hyatt Regency

A diverse group of aquatic scientists having a fun conversation together at the 2025 ESA Annual Meeting

The chair of the Coastal & Marine Ecology Section presents an award certificate to a student at the 2025 Brackish Bash

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🆕 historical fire ecology research, in our #OpenAccess journal "Ecosphere" ⬇️

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“I am honored to accept this position and look forward to working with the ESA community to advance the Society’s mission in the years ahead.” We are pleased to announce that Adrienne Sponberg, PhD, has been named the new executive director of ESA. Read the press release: ow.ly/17eq50Yct2F

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New & featured on the ESA Career Center: * Assistant Professor of Biology Texas Tech University * Landscape Ecologist Simon Fraser University * Dean UC Santa Barbara * SW Fla Habitat Restoration Chair, Florida Gulf Coast University Find these & many more new opportunities! ow.ly/R8RC50Y7HLW

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

come connect with ESA southwest chapter!

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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I’m at #AGU25 in NOLA and will be presenting my poster on hybrid oak physiology Monday morning! Would love to chat science, or just stop by to say hi!

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Meet the 2026 team for the ESA Southwest Chapter! 🌵☀️ We're super excited to serve our community and support your science in any way we can! Got questions or ideas? Send them our way! Stay tuned for introduction posts of each of our amazing new leaders!

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The December cover of "Ecological Applications" is feeling the burn! This prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada forest shows the immediate carbon cost of wildfire mitigation—but new research reveals that treatments like this one also have long-term benefits Find the full issue: tinyurl.com/ms6z58f2

Cover of the December 2025 issue of Ecological Applications

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Check out the #OpenAccess study here, in our journal "Ecological Applications"! doi.org/10.1002/eap....

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Applications": Tree seeds in the canopy can beat the heat, sometimes fueling surprise forest comebacks after extreme fires 📄Canopy seed survival through extreme fire in non-serotinous conifers: An unexpected source of forest resilience doi.org/10.1002/eap....

$Canopy seed survival conceptual model and key environmental gradients evaluated. (a) Hypothetical timeline of reproductive phenology and its relation to the presence of viable canopy seeds. (b, c) Location of study plots within the Caldor Fire (b) and Dixie Fire (c), with background shading indicating burn date. (d) Drone-derived orthomosaic from 2022 of a section of the Caldor Fire, exhibiting gradients between surviving green trees (green), killed trees with low canopy burn fraction (brown) and killed trees with high canopy burn fraction (gray-black), and indicating the locations of five edge plots (green points), interior plots with low canopy burn fraction (brown points) and interior plots with high canopy burn fraction (black points). (e) An example of a stand with low canopy burn fraction, with abundant yellow pine cones and seedlings. (f) An example of a plot with high canopy burn fraction, with yellow pine cones but few seedlings.$

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecological Monographs": Roots and fungi team up differently as forests age, resulting in movement along a nutrient acquisition continuum over time 📄Root-mycorrhizal foraging strategies shift with forest age more than with nitrogen manipulation doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Nutrient foraging continuum shifts with stand age in the temperate larch forest. Tree nutrient foraging depends on (c) root and (d) mycorrhizal traits, and (b) associated fungi and (a) interacts with soil-associated fungi. (e) When a young sapling grows, the root system architecture parameters, such as root biomass or root length density, allometrically grow with the shoot (gray line); however, the proportion of carbon investment to resource acquiring organs is likely to decrease as the forest ages, and the root segment metabolic activity, such as respiration, declines (brown line). As a result, the ectomycorrhizal fungi foraging type adapts to the combinations of root carbon supplies and the quantity and quality of soil nutrients; thus, long-distance exploration types are likely to become short-distance types when soil inorganic N accumulates over time. Overall, the nutrient foraging shifts from an “explorative strategy” of young stands to a "conservative strategy" of mature stands.

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🆕 in Ecosphere's #MacrosystemsEcology track: How closely do soil moisture & streamflow sync up over time? A close look at seasonal dry-down 📄Aridity reduces lag times between aquatic and terrestrial dry-down among watersheds and across years in the northwest US doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

(a) Example of long-term average, seasonal drought propagation for atmospheric demand (−PET), precipitation (Precip.), shallow soil moisture (SM), deep SM, and streamflow for a single high-elevation pixel in the Upper Donner und Blitzen watershed. (b) Example of moving window analysis to characterize the relationship between terrestrial and aquatic drought for a single high-elevation pixel in the Upper Donner und Blitzen watershed (as in panel a).

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Thank you to everybody that attended our events at ESA2025 in Baltimore! We'd love to hear from u on how we did! Please fill this survey w/ your thoughts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... See you in SLC next year! :D

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Applications are now open for the 2025 ESA Southwest Travel awards for ecologists and members of our Chapter presenting or just attending ESA this year! If you fit the description or know someone who does, apply and share! Looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Southwest Ecologist Awards ($700 travel award)

We are excited to announce the 2025 Southwest Ecologist Travel award ($700)! Funding will be awarded to three early career (students and post-graduates) and/or federal agency ecologists whose work is ...

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hi all! We are finally here on Bluesky and we would like to introduce our 2024-2025 leadership team! Better late than never before we run another election later this year. We have awesome events planned for ESA2025 in Baltimore. So, stay tuned!

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