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T.M. Perez

@tmperez.bsky.social

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Climate Change Ecologist, Director of Carbon Science @ Living Carbon. Presently trying to reduce and remove GHG from the atmosphere. All comments my own. www.timothymperez.com

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Despite collating >3100 heat tolerance records for >1700 species, there is limited global taxonomic and biogeographic coverage. The image below shows the @ipcc.bsky.social regions where heat tolerance records have been collected and regions still lacking heat tolerance data.

Provenance and growth locations associated with records of heat tolerances in our database distributed across their respective IPCC regions

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Of course, anyone who has been interested in heat tolerances research knows how many different methods exist. To simply these approaches, we categorized them and still found 67 different methods.

Box plots for heat tolerances associated with each of the 67 standardized methods in our database

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We (@alyssakullberg.bsky.social, Evan Rehm, @kjfeeley.bsky.social) created a database that disambiguates taxonomic, methodological, biogeographic, and cultivation data that potentially influence heat tolerances estimates. Here is a table comparing our dataset to other related datasets.

Table comparing our database to other related databases

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Microclimates matter! Presumably the southern edge of these tulips experience more sun/heat and give them a slight head start on blooming compared to those on the northern edge of this row. Spotted at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival! #tulips #skagitvalley #botany #ecophysiology

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hopefully, this database disambiguates some of the different ways to measure (and interpret) PHTs. Look at panel A in the figure below - 70 distinct methods even after trying to simplify and categorize them.

a multi-paneled figure summarizing the methodological, geographical, and taxonomic data in this database.

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A multi-paneled figure that summarizes methods, geographic, and taxonomic distributions of plant heat tolerances.

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

An eastern cottonwood that was planted in March as part of our reforestation project! Can’t wait to analyze the growth and survival data on these plantings this fall #populusdtoides #easterncottonwood #reforestation #naturalclimatesolutions.

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T.M. Perez @tmperez.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

First post on #bluesky. Excited to see how this digital scientific community unfolds… and if/how this platform plans to monetize. Anyways, here’s a December sunset from Hobuck Beach where I had the pleasure of surfing earlier in the day. Neah Bay, WA

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