Job #AJO31549, Postdoctoral Associate, Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

More than 44,000 fires have burned nearly 4 million acres across the U.S. so far in 2025, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, but only a handful have been megafires. A new study found t...

The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more l...

Private timberlands in Northern California are more likely to see high-severity wildfire than areas in and around public forests, a new study found.

Private timberlands in Northern California are more likely to see high-severity wildfire than areas in and around public forests, a new study found.

Wildfires are consistently more severe in private industrial forests than public ones. In this paper, we identify the drivers of this pattern. Namely, we show that fire severity is elevated in dense,...

In ecology, there is an underappreciated but fundamental distinction between systems in which the depletion of limiting resources reduces the growth rates of competitors and systems in which resource...

Ecological communities frequently exhibit remarkable taxonomic and trait diversity, and this diversity is consistently shown to regulate ecosystem function and resilience. However, ecologists lack a ...

Podcast Episode · Talking Climate · 02/25/2025 · 44m

The rationale behind trait-based ecology is that shifting focus from species’ taxonomic names to their measurable characteristics (‘functional traits’…