Melissa Pastore

Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our new benchmarking paper on the FIA soil monitoring program—developed by an amazing, regionally diverse team from across the U.S.! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYgR1L%7E...

Snow refugia: Managing temperate forest canopies to maintain winter conditions Climate change is reducing snowpack across temperate regions with negative consequences for human and natural systems. Because forest canopies create microclimates that preserve snowpack, managing fo...

How do #forests influence #snowpack dynamics in the northeastern US? Check out our new paper led by @lispastore.bsky.social and Dr. Nelson (@appmtnclub.bsky.social) published in @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Hint: mixedwood forests = snow refugia.

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New paper led by @mishastemkovski.bsky.social Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Effects of browsing by white-tailed deer on tree regeneration vary by ontogeny and palatability in forests of the northeastern USA Tree regeneration in northern temperate and southern boreal forests is threatened by multiple factors, including over-browsing by ungulates such as wh…

Check out our new paper led by Lucas Harris 🌱🦌 Effects of browsing by white-tailed deer on tree regeneration vary by ontogeny and palatability in forests of the northeastern USA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you! Looking forward to checking out the book when it’s ready!

Bulk density calculation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests - Biogeochemistry Soils are the largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth, yet substantial uncertainty in the size and stability of this pool remains. Much of this uncertainty stems from the characterization of bulk den...

New paper led by Ashley Lang 🚨 Bulk density calcuation methods systematically alter estimates of soil organic carbon stocks in United States forests link.springer.com/article/10.1...