Are you researching weeds and soil microbes? 🎍🦠
Submit an abstract to the plant-soil forum👇
*A belowground world of opportunity: harnessing plant-soil interactions to better understand weed establishment, impact and management*
#23AWC Australasian Weeds Conference
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How does temperature and precipitation shape plant rhizosphere and root microbial communities? How does this affect microbial network robustness? Find out tomorrow in the Above-Below Interactions Session 1 at 12:00-12:15! #GSB2023 Soil Biodiversity

Niche partitioning overrides interspecific competition to determine plant species distributions along a nutrient gradient

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Wiley Ecology & Evolution Nordic Society Oikos Elizabeth Wandrag @JaneCatford #OpenAccess #ecology #coexistence #facilitation #seeds #grasslands #invasive

Soil transplantation boosts nature restoration, global comparison shows!

Today in Journal of Applied Ecology, results from international team #17countries #4continents led by Jasper Wubs Terrestrial Ecology Department - NIOO-KNAW:
nioo.knaw.nl/en/news/global… #naturerestoration #soilbiodiversity

Fascinating study now out in Molecular Ecology, led by Mario Mairal and Carlos Garcia-Verduga in collaboration with Chownlab Justine Shaw Cang Hui | 惠蒼 Bettine van Vuuren et al. We found that Baker's Rule may not always apply. #RapidEvolution #BreedingSystems
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

One week left to get your application in to join the team Biology at York - we’re looking for a teaching and scholarship lecturer who loves data and biology outside. Deadline 12th Feb jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lectur… Pls RT

After plenty of covid delays and a baby, it's great to finally get my hands on these! Our #bushfirerecoveryau guide to rare & threatened plants of Torrington SCA will be available to the community via local NPWS, LLS & Beadle Herbarium #ozplants #threatenedspecies

Together with Rachael Dudaniec, I am recruiting a PhD student to work on the eco-evolutionary genomics of #rapidevolution of #invasiveplant -insect interactions Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences under an ARC grant. Please RT and apply. Starting 2023. #phdpositions

Low statistical power and overestimated anthropogenic impacts, exacerbated by publication bias, dominate field studies in global change biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

If you can push the Catastrophic Game crowdfunder at spsr.me/BK8u over £3000 by 4pm today I will challenge Richard Waites Prof Thorunn 🇮🇸 🌿 & Gareth Evans to a live tweeted game. They’ve never played in earnest. I’ve rarely lost. Make it happen!

'cultivate a robust community of plants and animals, weaken those of your opponents, and adapt to survive the Catastrophic events the planet throws at you'
An awesome card game from the amazing Prof Pen Holland and students Biology at York is crowdfunding to spread the joy.

My (surviving) office plants can relate.

In Catastrophic, we put plant or animal traits together to make species that may or may not survive catastrophes thrown at them. But wouldn’t you like to be able to build dragons too? Support our crowdfunder next week and we’ll develop a fantasy expansion pack! #Catastrophic22

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We are thrilled to announce that ESA Plant-Soil Ecology will have a symposium at #ESASCBO2022 :
From disconnect to reconnect: integrating soil microbial communities into fundamental ecology, conservation, and restoration.
Ecological Society of Australia SCB Oceania
See you in beautiful Wollongong!👇

Stories of 'ant wars' catch the imagination - but social insects have actually evolved many ways to coexist peacefully, and in some cases ants may even cooperate with members of other nests. Learn more here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… IUSSI_NWES Ant Evolution Papers @asab_tweets

Current project opportunities available with successful scholarship:

🐝🦋🪲Invertebrate diversity on private conservation land (includes funded topup $10,000 pa from BCT NSW)

My first book, 'Coastal State Jurisdiction Over Living Resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone', has just been published with OUP Law!
Thanks to everyone who has supported this project: ANU College of Law, UOW & #ANCORS , SRW Foundation, AGD AU.
A short thread 🧵:1/8

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I second that - a great opportunity to work across disciplines and in the new and exciting Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity Biology at York

Looking for a PhD on ant ecology with an applied slant? Check out our new project on ants as ecosystem engineers: using ants to promote biodiversity, with Kelly Redeker and National Trust Biology at York, working at this beautiful fieldsite! Please RT

If you're interested in effects of wildfire on plant-soil interactions, here's another PhD Biology at York with Prof Thorunn 🇮🇸 🌿 Lindsay Banin and me #plantsoilinteractions #wildfire
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