phenolology 🐢 @scisus@scholar.social

I've been hanging out on https://www.facultydiversity.org/ lately. If your uni has a subscription, it's got some really nice professional development material and help with doing your dissertation. Encouraging and doing a decent job illuminating some "hidden curriculum" stuff.

Got a little writing done this morning and it clarified what I need to do next with my analysis.

Want to spend the rest of the morning getting predictions out of my model so I can make some pretty summary figures.

Updated Ubuntu and R today. Will any of my code ever run again? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Disruptions to my routine really make it hard for me to work.

I really struggle to sit through talks and lectures, even when I'm really interested in them.

Fight or flight? Potential tradeoffs between drought defense and reproduction in conifers https://academic.oup.com/treephys/advance-article/doi/10.1093/treephys/tpz031/5423353

Refining predictions of population decline at species' rear edges https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14597

And the rest of my google scholar alerts can go in the trash because I'm done for the day! Time for lunch and a nice walk :D

Differentiation and Non-Linear Responses in Temporal Phenotypic Plasticity of Seasonal Phenophases in a Common Garden of Crataegus monogyna Jacq. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/4/293 Oh! I'm really glad I came across this since I'm using a similar phenological model and testing for provenance effects and I think I'll be able to use their method for comparing provenances. Yay!

Climatic cues for secondary growth and cone production are sex-dependent in the long-lived dioecious conifer Araucaria araucana https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168192319301741

The transcriptional activity of a temperature-sensitive transcription factor module is associated with pollen shedding time in pine https://academic.oup.com/treephys/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/treephys/tpz023/5487768

Genetic structure ofPinus parvifloraon Mt. Fuji in relation to thehoarding behavior of the Japanese nutcracker https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.2694

So I think this paper will help me get up to speed on expectations for non-wind pollinated trees in the tropics.

Short distance pollen dispersal and low genetic diversity in a subcanopy tropical rainforest tree, Fontainea picrosperma (Euphorbiaceae)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-019-0231-1

They seem surprised by "At least 63% of seeds are sired by male trees located within 30 m of the mother." That's not too far off from what we find for wind pollinated forest trees in more northern climates - about half the fathers are from ~50m and about half are from all over the freaking place.

PhenoPine: A simulation model to trace the phenological changes in Pinus roxhburghii in response to ambient temperature rise https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380019301681

I'm particularly excited about reading this one because I'm building phenological models in pine - though in *contorta* instead of *roxhburghii*

#forests #phenology #pine

Effective gene flow patterns across a fragmented landscape in southern Costa Rica for Symphonia globulifera (Clusiaceae); a species with mobile seed and pollen dispersers https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/37209

Habitat fragmentation reduces plant progeny quality: a global synthesis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13272

#geneflow #forests #fragmentation

5:30am, being still, watching the sun rise.

The answer to a problem I've been struggling with for weeks interpreting my results gently surfaces.

Good morning everyone!

Can you type "exponential" without first typing "exponentail" first? 🐒

Me? today? Not even once.

I should have run these models in the winter.

Sometimes making your stan model more complex makes it go WAY FASTER. https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_19/stan-users-guide/multivariate-hierarchical-priors-section.html