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Zach Gold

@zachgold.bsky.social
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PhD student, plant community ecologist

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 17/08/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... An amazing paper led by Jamie on the feedback between competition and evolution!
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Eco-evolutionary feedback reshapes competitive dynamics in an orchard fly system
The feedback between competition and evolution is central to hypotheses about the origin and maintenance of species diversity. Yet, whether competition-induced evolution is sufficiently rapid, consist...
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Princeton Vaughn @princetonvaughn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thrilled to have my first thesis chapter published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We combine genomics, gene editing, and performance experiments to reveal the genetic basis and functional consequences of hurricane-induced trait shifts in island lizards! Check it out: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Genomic targets of hurricane-induced selection on clinging performance in an island lizard
Vaughn et al. show that hurricanes drive parallel genomic selection signatures in island anoles. One candidate locus (hs6st1) is associated with rear toe length. CRISPR disruption reduces hindfoot ele...
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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.
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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...
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Zach Gold @zachgold.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our new paper in @pnas.org (co-led by @theogibbs.bsky.social) demonstrates that spatial patterns can modify interactions in plant communities of more than two species! (1/8)
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p... 🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Relationship between fire severity (dNBR, x axis) and early postfire recovery (y axis) for the different vegetation types affected in the Bermeja, Culebra and Hurdes wildfires (Spain). A: based on the Spanish Forest Map (MFE) data; B: based on the Spanish National Inventory (IFN). Dashed lines correspond to global means.
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Harman Jaggi @harmanjaggi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Biocultural vulnerability of traditional crops in the Indian Trans-Himalaya
Traditional understudied crops in Indian Trans-Himalaya offer unique ecological, genetic, and nutritional potential.
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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Why are wildfires more severe in private industrial forests? Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has the answers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 Thread below
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Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
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,...
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Theo Gibbs @theogibbs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Happy to share a new preprint! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social. We use a spatially explicit experimental design to ask: do higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities? Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
(A) A conceptual diagram of interspecific and intraspecific higher-order interactions among annual plants. (B) Conceptual diagrams (along with pictures of actual annual plants) of two different spatial arrangements of competitors to manipulate the relative frequecy of inter to intraspecific higher-order interactions.
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