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Inspired by the @lars_brudvig lab, here are the #BEASTLab's favorite papers of 2020!
@KitHamley and Madi Landrum both chose this amazing paper in QSR that captures a remarkable trackway at White Sands National Monument: a young woman carrying and setting down her toddler, whose tracks are crossed by a woolly mammoth, and a ground sloth! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379120305722
@CaitlinInMaine Loved this @ESAFrontiers article, which develops a new framework to identify climate change refugia in boreal forests -- including "ecosystem-protected" systems, like boreal peatland resilience to drought: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2188
Madi Landrum (a new PhD student) also liked this paper that finds that alder was in Britain earlier than thought after the last deglaciation, suggesting they may have been growing in climatic refugia further north than previously thought: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jqs.3258
New MS student @biodiversitybb was thrilled to find this AJB paper that shows we can reliably estimate plant traits from herbarium specimens, which is well-timed for her research on New England alpine plants: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.1535
One of my favorite papers of 2020 is this new @ESAEcology paper that uses frameworks in island biogeography theory to characterize the temporal dynamics of ecological communities (using short-term datasets; I'd love to apply this to longer-term ones): https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.3247
