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Old-growth forests provide climate relief for some bird species

Findings from a recent study indicate that old-growth forests may provide thermal refugia for species that are sensitive to climate change effects. The compositional diversity and microclimatic conditions of old-growth forests may provide resources and conditions that are less available in simple second-growth forest stands under global warming. The authors conclude that "Conservation of old-growth forests, or their characteristics in managed forests, could help slow the negative effects of climate warming on some breeding bird populations via microclimate buffering and possibly insurance e

Open - Postdoctoral Fellowship on Interactions

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The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-term Ecological Research Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to investigate species interactions and forest microclimates as drivers of community structure and ecosystem processes. The postdoc will contribute to field experiments focused on how species interactions (competition, mutualism) affect species distributions (of trees, mosses, lichens, and other taxa), as well as how microclimate might moderate species interactions and ecosystem processes. There will also be opportunities to work with long-term datasets to address questions relating to microclimate (10 years of under-canopy microclimate data across 184 sites) and species distributions in forested terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems. See full announcement for details and for instructions on how to apply.

Stream Invertebrate Sampling 2021

Bill Gerth uses his hand to gently disturb the stream bottom and dislodge stream invertebrates as the water flows into the Surber net

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