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Emily Geest, PhD

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Butterfly ecologist ๐Ÿฆ‹

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Iโ€™m still figuring out how this site works but I just found all the science, ecology, and entomology starter packs! So exciting to see so many scientists in one place!

25.01.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My other new paper! This one looks at a 36-year dataset on a rare marsh sinkhole pond. A highlight is the inverse relationship between American lotus and pickerel weedโ€”when one thrives, the other declines.

monativeplants.org/wp-content/u...

19.01.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The effect of land use intensity and habitat characteristics on butterfly community composition within the Southern Great Plains of the United States Land use intensity influenced overall butterfly community composition with sites managed only with fire having the most dissimilar butterfly community compared to three other management regimens (fir...

Brand new here, but Iโ€™ve had a ton of papers come out lately so I might as well share them!

For this one I explored how butterflies respond to different fire regimens! Using fire alone creates a totally different butterfly community compared to fire/haying or fire/grazing.

doi.org/10.1002/glr2...

19.01.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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