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Sam Reed

@sampowersreed.bsky.social
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Forest Climate Adaptation, Biodiversity Conservation, & Disturbance Climate and Conservation Manager at Friends of the Boundary Waters 🛶

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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So, what the heck happens to the Boundary Waters after a fire? What will grow back after the 2026 fires, and how is climate change shaping what comes next? To find the answers, check out our new Boreal Compass Substack where I write with Lee Frelich on the mysteries of fire in the Boundary Waters
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The mystery of fire in the Boundary Waters
What the past tells us and what the future might hold
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hot off the damn presses: New open access paper in Climatic Change on how we NEED to talk about maladaptation. We argue that maladaptation deserves rich and transdisciplinary dialogue to support awareness, organizational learning, and inclusivity.
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We need to talk about maladaptation - Climatic Change
Climatic Change - Climate adaptation actions should help, not harm. However, adaptation efforts can backfire, increasing vulnerability to climate change—a phenomenon known as maladaptation....
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Only a few days left to apply for our #Climate and #Conservation Associate position!
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Friends of the Boundary Waters @bwca.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We’re excited to grow our Climate and Conservation Department and are looking for someone who’s ready to dig into research, collaboration, and real-world climate solutions for the BWCA and northern MN. Details: www.friends-bwca.org/careers/ Applications close March 4, 2026.
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Please share! I am positively stoked to be hiring a #Climate and #Conservation Associate. Together we will lay the foundation for Friend's Climate and Conservation Department and help support climate resilience in one the most special places on Earth.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New Rooted in Research highlighting our work on how fire, deer, and canopy gaps interactively change the forest seed bank:
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Restoring future forests: how fire, deer, and canopy gaps shape forest seed banks and regeneration potential | US Forest Service Research and Development
At the Fernow Experimental Forest, scientists examined how prescribed fire, deer exclusion, and canopy gap creation applied individually and in combination influenced seed bank diversity and compositi...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
High deer densities are one of the main challenges in temperate forest restoration and management. But not all deer are the same! In this review we consider the evidence for their impacts on woody vegetation ->
The number of studies reporting the occurrence of each deer species, together with the different effects on woody vegetation that were studied. Note that the numbers in this matrix add up to more than the total number of studies (n = 455), as many studies reported more than one deer species present and more than one effect category.
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New preprint of ours using the B4WarmED experiment to 1) Test how warming and rainfall reduction influence litter decomp of 8 temperate-boreal tree species and 2) How ambient- and warm-grown litter of the same species decompose in different warming environments Check it out! 🍁🌎🌡️
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Direct and indirect interactions among warming, water, and growing condition slow decomposition rates of temperate-boreal tree litter
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
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Northwest RISCC Network @nwriscc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hi Bluesky! 👋 Let us introduce ourselves! The Northwest Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (NW RISCC) Network (nwriscc.org) is a partnership of regional agencies and orgs connecting climate adaptation & invasive species science and management. Check out this 🧵 to learn more! 1/3
An invasive European green crab is held by a rubber-gloved hand
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Dr. Jon Bennett @bennettecology.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I am looking for a postdoc to join a large project where we are sampling plants and soils from across the Canadian prairies to identify genomic indicators (plant genotypes, eDNA, soil biome) of ecosystem function. This person would work with the team to integrate data, with significant latitude. 🌍
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I just read this paper and honestly, it is so useful. Highly recommend folks in the climate adaptation space read it. This is the type of strong, quantitative evidence for prescribed fire that is needed in northern and eastern forests.
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New story on our most recent @journalofecology.bsky.social manuscript: Get the inside scoop on how combined fire, deer, and treefall gaps influence the forest seed bank
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A hidden forest future | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
Smoke from a prescribed burn in a forest.  What if the future of a forest was determined not by the trees we see, but by the seeds hidden beneath our feet? A groundbreaking study, recently published i...
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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐 go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Another example of the strong connection between fire (and other disturbances) and the soil seed bank. "Combined fire, canopy gaps and deer presence led to high seed bank diversity and the most unique seed communities" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🔥🌳🦌Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps & deer jointly change the #forest #seed bank besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Interesting work! I’m super curious to see if this would hold up in a field experiment. May add another line of evidence for low deer densities being beneficial for temperate forests
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Join our faculty! We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word! careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States
Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 7, 2025. Questions regarding this position...
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2340606 - CAREER: Quantifying how and when global change alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning Lock
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A big one: Our new paper on how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, & canopy gaps 🌳 🌳 change the forest seed bank is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social An absolute beast to write, but with a superstar team (Alex Royo, Cassie Olmsted, Walt Carson, Lee Frelich, & Peter Reich) anything is possible!
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Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
Forest disturbance regimes have changed around the world and are being restored or manipulated to support biodiversity. Reintroduction of disturbance leads to unique plant communities, but we do not ...
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hi 👋 new BlueSky followers! Introducing our lab group @colorado.edu. We aim to understand and design solutions to the grand challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Our research combines global change ecology, community ecology, ecosystem sci, economics & conservation science to: 1/n
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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Awesome but damnit all to hell, #grasslands cover around 40% of terrestrial Earth and they need restored too. As do wetlands. If we could just bring a teensy bit of nuance to these huge policy declarations, I’d appreciate it. #ecorestore #restoration
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Jeff Atkins @atkinsjeff.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
So at next week's #AGU24 I will be giving 2 talks: - fire severity effects on carbon cycling/soil respiration - using ICESat-2 to map hurricane disturbance And 4 posters related to our ICESat-2 work (collaborators couldn't come so I inherited them!) 🧪
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Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @mwcasc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hello! We're new around here, so a short introduction 🎤 We're the Midwest CASC, a regional center that teams scientists with resource managers to deliver science to help fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate. We'll be sharing resources related to #ClimateAdaptation
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My employer @ione-umn.bsky.social is now on Bluesky - Recommend giving 'em a follow to get the scoop on some of the coolest environmental research and sustainability leadership on the block 🌎🧪🌐🌡️ Plus applications for the 3rd cohort of the IonE Postdoc Fellowship is open now 😎 environment.umn.edu
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Institute on the Environment | Discovering Solutions to Earth's Greatest Enviromental Challenges
IonE is leading the way toward a future in which people and the environment prosper together.
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Do other people add the Oxford commas back into their manuscript proofs? I feel like this stylistic point should be up to the authors...
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For #WorldSoilDay, I want to share our recent paper that tested how deer 🦌 and canopy gaps 🍁 influence invasive earthworms 🪱 We found that fencing out deer and creating canopy gaps decreased invasive earthworm density & biomass But keeping new 🪱 out of North American forest soils is still key 🔑 🌎
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Linked disturbance in the temperate forest: Earthworms, deer, and canopy gaps
Despite the large body of theory concerning multiple disturbances, relatively few attempts have been made to test the theoretical assumptions of how and if disturbances interact. Of particular import...
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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
go.bsky.app/Kgs8qMR
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This starter pack is getting some renewed attention, so I’ll be a bit more active in adding folks to it Just let me know if you’d like to be added :) Still looking for tropical foresters as well
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Spread the word: Apps are open for the Institute on the Environment's Postdoctoral Fellowship 🧪🌎🌐 This postdoc has been truly transformational for me as I have gotten my feet wet in climate adaptation and social sciences while working in a cohort of 20 postdocs! Hmu if you have any questions :)
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Tim Osborn @timosbornclim.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I've made a starter pack of those with interests in tree-ring science e.g. dendroclimatology, dendrochronology, dendroecology. Please let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed!) or to suggest others to add go.bsky.app/LXrT3xb
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Jérémy Cours 🌳 @jeremycours.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🍁 Forest Ecology feed ! The feed is open to any research related to forest ecology around the world, including landscape, conservation, social, policy, zoology, etc. 🌳 You can DM me to be added as contributor. Use the 🍁 or #forestecol in your posts to appear in the feed. bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is extremely cool
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Excellent thread (using a v interesting paper) on how good science requires time and patience
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I can’t explain it, but USGS scientists are the most pure. Those MFers are in it for the love of the game.
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Diele Lobo @dielelobo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Proud to share this post about our newly published papers! A heartfelt thank you 💙to my co-authors for their dedication to making conservation a field where professionals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds feel a sense of belonging— this paper is a reflection of that commitment.
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I don't usually promote datasets, but I feel like seed bank folks are always in need of data for meta-analyses. So, new dataset is below! Spoiler alert: It relates to our new paper where we factorially test how combined fire 🔥, deer 🦌, and canopy gaps 🌬️/🪚 change the seed bank. More to come 👀
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Dryad | Data -- Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Do you measure trees using fancy technology but not from particularly far away? If so then join us! Ask @mokros.bsky.social to be added. go.bsky.app/SvNVBfb
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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
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Morgan Crowley, PhD @morganahcrowley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In Canada, some provinces track when, where and how much…. But not every province and I don’t know if it is publicly available! One of our intended Canadian products from #WildFireSat is to classify the different types of fires detected (forest fire, Rx, ag and grassland). Cc @amonthei.bsky.social
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Or even better: How many acres AND where? Would truly love for someone to figure this out 🔥 🌎
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Early Career Ecologists starter pack is officially completed! Please have a look and give a follow to each and every one of these amazing individuals And, to anyone who is still interested in joining, perhaps we can do part 2 in a bit? go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Here a pack of institutions relevant for the field of biodiversity governance. Both science and policy. Institutions only! Which ones are missing? go.bsky.app/DdDYBMT
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Sam Reed @sampowersreed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Human-Wildlife Interactions: My grandfather and his buddies sneak onto the New Orlean’s City Park golf course at 4 AM every day and play with light up balls until the sun comes up. Today gramps couldn’t get to his bag bc of the “fairway lizard”which I take is a relatively common occurrence.
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy
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Anna Yang @anna-yang.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi Bluesky! Let me introduce myself: I’m a Hmong woman and scientist studying temperate forest disturbances, currently focused on mature and old-growth forests, favorite disturbances are diseases 🍄‍🟫, taking a brief sabbatical from DnD 🐉 while I wrangle two toddlers
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