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Stephen Proulx

@evoecodynamics.bsky.social
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an inordinate fondness for bicycles. dad, cat dad, snail dad, turtle dad. loves the interplay between ecological and evolutionary dynamics. they/them.

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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our new paper out now!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Don't miss any of the ASN events at #evol2026 ! Here is a cheatsheet of ASN and tri-society events at the Cleveland meeting this year: www.amnat.org/announcement...
Evolution 2026 logo with a variety of organisms superimposed on a map of Ohio
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our new work (bit.ly/4nlB0RU) demonstrates how environmental cue reliability can drive the evolution of adaptive maternal effect plasticity. We evolved nematodes in random environments and populations receiving a reliable cue adapted to an otherwise unpredictable environment.
An image of petri dishes stacked in a custom holder with blue-light LEDs visible, creating shimmery reflections of the dish covers.A QR code displaying the bioRxiv logo with the tagline "The preprint server for biology".
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
#Asilomar2025 @asn-amnat.bsky.social Set up and ready for you to register!
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The American Naturalist conference at Asilomar starts tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! #AmNatAsilomar
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There is still time to register for the coziest, chat by the fire with your colleagues sort of EcoEvo conference, the @asn-amnat.bsky.social meeting in Asilomar, California. The meeting is Jan 3-6, 2025, and you still have a few weeks (until Dec 1) to get your abstracts in! asnasilomar2025.org
A leather couch, wooden craftsman style furniture and lamps in a large hall with a blazing fire flanked by stacks of wood.
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
guess i'll just leave the halloween decorations up.
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
It is 4 pm pacific time, which means the cats have been eagerly awaiting the closing of the refrigerator signaling the food bowls are about to be revealed.
two cats striding intently and hopefully towards the camera. The cats are similar looking green-eyed tabbies with grey and black stripes. A cat water bowl and window is in the background.
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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
🧪,🌍, #ecoevo
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
If you haven't yet registered, now is your chance! The best meeting to have a fire side chat with a vibrant group of scholars!
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
Coming to the super social at #Evo2024? Don’t forget to bring your badge – it’s your ticket to the social! See you at the Grand Quai!
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 27/07/2024
#Evol2024 IDEA plenary by @coreywelch.bsky.social starts by tracing his preparation as a field biologist to his Indigenous heritage, "seeing what you see" and "scanning" the landscape around him.
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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Excited to attend my 1st in-person @sse_evolution meeting since 2017. Check out postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social’s talk about dissertation work Sun 28 July, 3:30 PM in 520B “Adaptation to environmental variation and manipulation in a cosmopolitan plant” #Evol2024
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
So excited and proud of all the #MoreauLab talks happening at #Evol2024 this year! Be sure to check them all out! #ProudPI
List of all the Moreau Lab presentations happening at the Evolution Conference 2024
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Attending this weekend’s @evolmtg.bsky.social #Evol2024 ? Pass by room 525AB on July 28th 11:20-11:45 for some nice results and discussions surrounding virulence evolution and parasite transmission presented by yours truly :) from my postdoc in Koella lab
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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
Please join us at the Evolution2024 meeting in Montreal to discuss why we cite who we cite and why it matters. #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Happy to be in Montreal for #Evol2024 ! Stop by the @evo-journal.bluesky.social booth during the Monday afternoon coffee break to say hi or talk about the Evolution journal (I’m an AE). And my talk is Tuesday morning - great symposium on evolutionary rescue!
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Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷 @s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
I'm excited to give an @asn-amnat.bsky.social Early Career Investigator talk at #Evol2024! Come check out the award talk session on Sunday from 4:15-5:45pm (Rm 516C) to learn about what I've been up to during my postdoc and what my lab will be working on now that it's open!
First slide of my talk titled "Understanding the speciation process through phenotypes, genotypes, and behavior." The slide includes my name (Stepfanie Aguillon), my email (aguillon@ucla.edu), and my lab website (www.stepfanieaguillon.com). Additionally my adorable lab logo which includes a flicker and a swordtail growing out of a DNA strand is included.
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European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
We are very excited for the kick-off of the in-person part of the Joint Congress this week in Montreal! Safe travels everyone and follow @evolmtg.bsky.social for conference updates #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
We're excited to see in-person attendees in Montréal on Friday! Don't forget to download the conference app and check out the schedule. #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
I am OVER THE MOON that our paper is out at Am Nat today! We find phylogeny & biogeographic contingency shape functional diversity in cichlid radiations. It's my first as co-first author, & Chris Martinez was an A+ co-lead. We had an amazing team-I am so proud of this work! doi.org/10.1086/731477
gif depicting a suction feeding strike of the cichlid fish Boulengerochromis microlepis. The fish swims towards its prey, expands its jaws, and sucks in a small prey item.An image of a figure from the manuscript. The figure depicts a principal components analysis as a scatterplot demonstrating the axes of diversity of feeding kinematics among cichlids fishes. The Neotropical cichlids are very diverse, and access unique regions of kinematic space, while the distribution of kinematics among Lake Tanganyikan cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation of Lake Malawi cichlids, and likewise, the distribution of kinematics of Lake Malawi cichlids fully encompasses the younger radiation from Lake Victoria.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
This year’s SSE Presidents’ Award goes to Dr. Samarth Mathur for his paper, “An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations.” Congratulations Dr. Mathur! shorturl.at/f45PN @journal-evo.bsky.social
Headshot of Samarth Mathur. Text: Samarth Mathur, An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations, Society for the Study of Evolution SSE Presidents' Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper in Evolution.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Prime Day, Schmime Day. Hey, listen, indie bookstores are out there being awesome every day. And they tend to ship directly to you, even if you're not local to the store. They're where the books live! And booksellers are book wizards! Bonafide bibliomancers fast with the recommendations.
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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
The heck? Both Esquire and the NYT have put out "best books" lists, and THE FIFTH SEASON is on both! Is there a holiday coming up or something? Anyway, yay! Esquire's is SFF-specific (#4) and the NYT's is this-century specific (#44). www.esquire.com/entertainmen... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
See if your favorites made our expanded list.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 12/06/2024
I'm excited to see "Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields" out today — it's a comprehensive evidence review and policy report from a think tank event I joined last year My quick intro post: lab.jbyoder.org/2024/06/12/p... And the full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1mjFr...
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Policy report: “Inclusion and Advancement of LGBTQ+ People in STEM Fields”
Posing with Alli Mattheis after we spent the day recruiting survey participants at Twin Cities Pride, way back in 2013. (jby) Last May I was invited to Washington, DC, for a symposium and workshop …
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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
IITE webinar William Campillay-Llanos (University of Talca, Chile): Body size impact on trophic dynamics: mathematical modeling and biological control in a three-level food chain 11 June, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 Web: iite.info/seminar/ 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
The SafeEvolution initiative is recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for everyone (1/2).
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EvoAllies 2024
We are recruiting new EvoAllies for the Evolution meetings as part of our SafeEvolution initiative. The goal of the program is to improve the climate at the meetings, making them more welcoming for ev...
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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
IITE webinar Géza Meszéna (Eötvös University, Budapest): What is niche-space? The exact and intuitive theory. 28 May, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 Web: iite.info/seminar/ 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo
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Stephen Proulx @evoecodynamics.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
Spread the word! Note that the committee is particularly receptive to proposals from early career scientists and that it can be a great way to get a exposure for a developing research area!
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 15/05/2024
2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space www.molecularecologist.com/2024/05/15/2...
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2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space
The Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of mol…
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Storz et al. report the discovery of multiple species of Andean mice living at extreme elevations that far surpass previously assumed range limits for mammals. These discoveries contribute to a new appreciation of the environmental limits of vertebrate life: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
East face of Volcán Llullaillaco (Chile-Argentina), with a troop of vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in the foreground. With an elevation of 6739 m above sea-level, Llullaillaco is the second-highest active volcano in the world. It is one of 21 Andean volcanoes that served as the focus of extreme high-elevation surveys of small mammals by Storz et al. Photo credit: Naim M. Bautista
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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation
We are thrilled to announce the launch of an Ecology and Evolution section of microPublication Biology! Please support this new venture as an author, reviewer, and/or promoter!

microPublication Biology publishes single, validated findings that may be novel, reproduced, negative, or are the result of small projects that may not fit into a larger article. The major goal of microPublication Biology is to rapidly place research findings into the public domain. microPublication Biology only accepts original, high-quality data and work, independent of perceived impact. Review and publication standards align with COPE ethical guidelines. All published articles are published in English and are peer-reviewed by at least one expert reviewer. 

Articles typically include a short abstract, a main section approximately 1000 words in length, a methods section, one figure (which can have multiple panels), and tables if appropriate.What types of papers are suitable for microPublication?
- Exciting new research findings or methods that you want to publish rapidly in the public domain.
- Experimental findings derived from small projects.
- Preliminary data to cite in grant proposals.
- Findings included in an existing publication as “unpublished observation” or “data not shown”.
- Publishing results instead of burying them in supplemental materials.
- Nature notes and natural history observations.
- Successful or unsuccessful replication of published work.
- Cautionary information.
- Negative results.
- If the amount of your data does not fit within one microPublication, you can prepare several submissions, each focused on an independent result, and tie the articles together with an Integrations article, which serves as a summary narrative article (see here for an example).mock microPublication logo depicting a cardinal, orb weaver, oak leaves/acorns, anolis, and shelf fungi.
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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
IITE webinar Robin Snyder (Case Western): The role of luck in reproductive skew and individual success 26 March, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287 🧪,🌍, #ecoevo
IITE webinar
Robin Snyder (Case Western):
The role of luck in reproductive skew and individual success
26 March, 2024, 9 a.m. Pacific
Zoom: liu-se.zoom.us/j/63158449287
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Every time I mention the 3rd edition of my book, people throw money at me and ask when it will be published. Here are some evasive answers and broad details:
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The Third Edition, the Dotted Half Note of Editions
Franco of Cologne was a 13th century music theorist. Franco developed many of the conventions of modern music notation. Including the terrible idea of adding a dot to a note to indicate that its durat...
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Géza Meszéna @gezam.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
🌍 #ecoevo
Our book "Theory-based Ecology: A Darwinian approach" by Liz Pásztor, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Gabriella Magyar, Tamás Czárán, & Géza Meszéna, published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/12/2023
New paper out today: An "unprecedented" range map of the eastern and western Joshua tree, based on Google Maps satellite imagery for more than SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND quarter-square kilometer grid cells Blog post rundown: lab.jbyoder.org/2023/12/14/n... And the paper: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...
Two panels: A Google Maps satellite image of desert scrubland with white arrows pointing out large Joshua trees, which cast distinctive shadows; and a large Joshua tree in a desert landscape tinted green with spring growthA map of the Mojave Desert with the predicted presence of Joshua trees indicated by blue (low probability of presence) to red (high probability) shading
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Undergrads! Thinking of attending the Evolution meeting in Montréal w/ ASN, ESEB, SSB, & SSE? You may be eligible for financial assistance, lodging, and more. The societies aim to create a diverse pool of student attendees! Applications due Jan 29, 2024: www.evolutionsociety.org/education/un...
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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
This is really cool - using the distribution of cells in a pipette tip for CFU quantification: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes - Nature Microbiology
Using agar media suspended in pipette tips and a standard camera, the geometric viability assay provides a user-friendly and scalable update to standard colony-forming-unit-count approaches.
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Patrick Phillips @patrickphillips.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Truly epic preprint from @amywebster.bsky.social : Epigenetic context predicts gene expression variation and reproductive traits across genetically identical individuals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ned Dochtermann @neddochtermann.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
So it was a frequent twitter topic but what's the consensus of how to deal with coauthors you're no longer able to contact? I'm about to submit a revision and I haven't been able to contact a UG coauthor. They last saw a draft about two years ago and have been out of contact since.
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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
You can find all the training material (slides, lecture recordings, workshop tutorials) of our week-long summer school on open science in this repository: osf.io/nymr5/ Happy self-learning! #OSCSummerSchool23
Programme of the LMU Open Science Center Summer School 2023 - all info at: https://malikaihle.github.io/OSC-Open-Research-Summer-School-2023/
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Zach Reitz @zachreitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
It's nice to be back at UCSB! Today I start an exciting new postdoc with @mixotrophe.bsky.social and @evoecodynamics.bsky.social, working on mathematical models for siderophore production. Is this part of some quest to explore every corner of metallophore research? Stay tuned to find out!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT. cpb.sf.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...
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CPB Postdoctoral Fellowship
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN POPULATION BIOLOGY   EFFECTIVE:  September 26, 2023 DEADLINE:  November 1, 2023
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Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology (IITE) just announced their fall seminars over at the old place. "As ever, all our Zoom seminars are free and open to all around the world - for more information: iite.info/seminar/ See you next week!"
Schedule of fall IITE talks:
26 September, 2023 -- Claus Rüffler (Uppsala): Community Assembly and Complex Life Cycles
3 October, 2023 -- Eric Pedersen (Concordia University, Montreal): How do we define a patch? Deriving subpopulation structure from movement models using random-walk-based distance metrics
17 October, 2023 -- Tanya Rogers (NOAA): Chaos and intermittent instability in ecological systems
7 November, 2023 -- Elisa Thebault (IEES Paris): Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation
14 November, 2023 -- Hanna Kokko (Zürich)
28 November, 2023 -- Vadim Karatayev (University of Guleph)
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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
In this case, it's actually not :) Fungal fairy rings can be quite different from vegetation rings (the one pictured is of a blue grama ring; quite common in NM). Here's our paper studying the exact phenomenon if you're interested!
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Plant-microbe interactions as a cause of ring formation in Bouteloua gracilis
Patterned vegetation growth such as grass rings is found in many arid ecosystems, yet the mechanisms behind their formation are often unknown and have…
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