Chicana. Assistant Professor. Biodiversidad y cambio climático. Tropical and temperate mountains. https://biodiversityresearchlab.com
VA + PR
#NSFfunded #Ecology #Macroecology #TropicalEcology #ClimateChange #GlobalChange #PlantEcology #DataScience #Chingona
Poetry xhicanismo from California
Cajas de cartón para hacer casonas, fog inebriates fermented, dreams stolen, abandoned, the weight no longer soportable, an empty backpack in desert shades of pink.
Looking for collaborators and ideas for 'easily' measured plant physiology (stomatal density, conductance?) for Proyecto ALTA.
Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Virginia, Tennessee
Tropical and temperate mountains
Woody and herbaceous species
What are the big (or little) unknowns?
Field work Proyecto ALTA:
Showing new lab tech the ropes
The boy's throwing a tantrum. If you haven't used Movetodon to find people you know on Twitter, now is the time. He'll be deleting links and handles that people have posted shortly.
I'm grieving Twitter. I've been there for eleven years, and made so many close connections there. Heck, I just won a major science communication award for my work on Twitter. It took a decade to get to >100k followers. It's weird to be starting over again.
Book deals, etc. are affected by social follower counts, so this sort of thing isn't trivial. My outreach isn't the source of my income (thankfully), but it's deeply important to me. And the work continues, but I'll be in my feels for a bit.
New lab paper alert:
Trait-based ecology is not yet predictive because the proliferation of new metrics muddied the waters.
Where others zig, we zag.
We propose testing old theories with new data.
We advocate for the ubiquitous power law and argue environmental variability in space and time fundamentally shapes trait variation.
Keep an eye out for Umaña led paper where we provide an empirical test.
Priscilla Muriel
Botany One
Jacquelyn Gill
Brian J. Enquist
Joshua Drew