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Orpheus Butler

@orpheusbutler.bsky.social
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Soil ecologist | ARC DECRA Fellow at Griffith University, Australia

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
First results from the P fertilisation of the EucFACE experiment are out - and they are pretty intriguing! Congrats to PhD student Min Zhao for leading this effort @newphyt.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Phosphorus addition shifts elevated <fc>CO<sub>2</sub></fc> effects on soil respiration from rhizosphere to root pathways in a mature eucalypt woodland
Summary diagram of the utilization of additional carbohydrates fixed under elevated CO2 belowground in natural low-phosphorus (P) (a) and P-fertilized (b) conditions. Soil respiration consists of het...
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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent | Nature Plants share.google/RL9wdpMxxGRh...
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - Nature Plants
Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as enduring carbon sinks.
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Adam Sharp @adam-sharp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity. This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics. rdcu.be/ezAxP
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Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function
Nature - Time-series data from tropical forests tracking weather and declines in arthropod diversity and function show that fluctuations in species were largely dependent on their El Niño...
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ManzoniLab @manzonilab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Elisa found that respiration rates scale as the product of organic carbon and microbial biomass, with minimal effects of microbial diversity. This is a cool result, supporting the use of nonlinear kinetics to interpret data at small scales (lab incubation). Great @holisoils.bsky.social team effort!
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Orpheus Butler @orpheusbutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excited to share this paper from my postdoc at The University of Sydney! We looked at soil microbial physiological responses to declining soil P at the Cooloola dune sequence on the east coast of Australia.
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