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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻

@dovciak-lab.bsky.social

🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳Biodiversity🦋Mountains🏔️Climate🌦️Professor🌳NSF Mid-Career Award🍀Editor, Ecological Applications🎋Past Chair, ESA Vegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow, Yale School of the Environment (Fall 2023). https://www.esf.edu/faculty/dovciak/

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About Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station | Martin Dovciak Check out this lovely video on really cool research & education activities in the heart of the Adirondacks by our former lab member & Shingle Shanty Preserve & Research Station director Stephen Langdo...

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09.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, congrats Angela and the team!

26.11.2025 04:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed!

23.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great & growing global conference. Worth going if you can make it.

13.11.2025 20:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dobrý nápad. Také by sa zišlo aj na Slovensku. 😁

09.11.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love these fall botany field trips with my students to magical nature spots in Central New York State. Emerald forests, azure lakes, and multicolor meadows and old fields abounding with plant life… ... I love these fall botany field trips with my students to magical nature spots in Central New York State. Emerald forests, azure lakes, and multicolor meadows and old fields abounding with plant life a...

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23.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Ha, my former PhD student is from Mendoza, but I have never been. It looks nice.

08.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We are not looking at micro fungi but an interesting idea. We are finding that conifer litter is generally worse establishment habitat even for conifer seedlings compared to the other substrates.

07.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Have you ever wondered if temperate🌳 & boreal🌲 tree seedlings🌱germinate & grow best in their own leaf litter, heterospecific litter, on moss, or on bare soil? If so stay tuned for more from Tee Atwater’s honors thesis experiment completed this Fall! @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social

06.11.2025 20:35 — 👍 43    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Congrats!

05.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SUNY ESF listed among the nation's leaders for sustainability The university was recently rated as a top performer among colleges by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

It’s great to work at one of the top-ranked doctoral degree granting institutions on sustainability. At @sunyesf.bsky.social we live what we teach and study!
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02.11.2025 03:23 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Excellent talk today on abrupt vs. slow forest 🌳🌲 change by @nathankiel.bsky.social @sunyesf.bsky.social given @syracuseup.bsky.social biology seminar series. It was super interesting to think of forest change drivers spanning climate zones & disturbance regimes from Yellowstone to the US Northeast

31.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

So sad.

31.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love these fall botany field trips with my students to magical nature spots in Central New York State. Emerald forests, azure lakes, and multicolor meadows and old fields abounding with plant life… ... I love these fall botany field trips with my students to magical nature spots in Central New York State. Emerald forests, azure lakes, and multicolor meadows and old fields abounding with plant life a...

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23.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This is excellent. Just planning another visit with my Tropical Ecology class to Embera community in Panama (altought not to Darién). Will add this to class reading list!

23.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice!

10.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice!

09.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Welcome our new lab member & MS student, Jenna Meyer! Jenna comes from Binghamton University where she studied how plant diversity affects ecological functions in lawns for her honors thesis. She is now switching to study plant communities at temperate-boreal forest ecotones @sunyesf.bsky.social

08.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, please add me in. I study plant communities & plant growth using statistical models.

07.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…

🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

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03.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 47    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…

🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

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03.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 47    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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I enjoyed hosting Dr. Juan Corley, Ecological Applications Editor-in-Chief @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social & learning about novel insect-tree interactions of non-native North American trees & European insects in Argentina. Thanks Juan for great talk @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social❗️🌐🌎

03.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Ben, can you please add me to the list? Part of my research explores effects of different lan management approaches in forest ecosystems. Thanks!

27.09.2025 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
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20.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1007/s100...

20.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

This is really cool. Will add to my Tropical Ecology class readings. Heliconia-humming bird relations are really interesting, particularly in the Caribbean!

19.09.2025 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats Clayton!

11.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. Forest is changing due to changing climate, which is a form of succession.

07.09.2025 11:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nope. Treelines have been moving too (so me more, some less), but the upslope movement will be limited by rocky substrates and eventually the height of the mountains…

07.09.2025 03:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some high-elevation conifers in our region appear to be migrating to higher, cooler elevations as the climate warms, but lower elevation temperate deciduous tree species are not. Our new study aims to explain some of the reasons why that may be the case.

06.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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