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Assistant Professor @UCRiverside studying how environmental change alters the assembly, diversity & functioning of plant communities.

Riverside, CA

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Chris Catano

2 months

Join me in southern California! My lab is now open @UCRiverside . I am recruiting grad students for Fall 2025. Contact me if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in plant community ecology, ecosystem functioning, global change, and conservation. I am also happy to meet at #ESA2024

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Chris Catano

4 years

I wasn't kidding when I said my postdoc advisor, @lars_brudvig , is the best! Here he is reading stories over Zoom to the kids of people in the lab so we can get a little extra time to ourselves (writing, analyses, catch up an emails, whatever).

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Chris Catano

4 years

Happy to announce that starting 8/31 my wife and I will be sharing three new full time positions -- kindergarten teacher, preschool teacher, and daycare worker -- on top of our other full time jobs as a postdoc and university professor. You're damn right I'm adding this to my CV.

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I am very excited to announce that I am joining @UCRiverside as an Assistant Professor of Plant Community Ecology in the Department of Botany & Plant Sciences @UCRCNAS ! My lab will open Summer 2024.

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PhD opportunities in my lab @UCRiverside . See my website (in profile) for info and how to contact me. #CommunityEcology #Metacommunity #Biodiversity #GlobalChange #Conservation . I am happy to work with prospective students and postdocs to apply for fellowships, too.

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Chris Catano

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Join me in southern California! My lab is now open @UCRiverside . I am recruiting grad students for Fall 2025. Contact me if you are interested in pursuing a PhD in plant community ecology, ecosystem functioning, global change, and conservation. I am also happy to meet at #ESA2024

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Chris Catano

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You have to "write simply for a general scientific audience" when submitting to PNAS/Science/Nature. But then every paper from cell, molecular, or cancer research is a jargon and acronym salad that is completely incomprehensible. Why the double standard for Ecology?

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4 years

Woke up this morning to a surprise at my door - a bottle of champagne and a hand written card from @lars_brudvig celebrating the publication of our first paper together. The card has prairie seed art, fitting for a paper on seed dispersal in prairie community assembly!

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4 years

No office door to hang the new pub on - to the fridge! Though competition for space to self-promote is stiff from the kid down the hall. #WorkFromHome

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Chris Catano

2 years

Two new papers to share! I previously shared this, but it is now out in early view fully formatted. If you are interested in community assembly, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, historical contingencies, or ecosystem restoration, I hope you enjoy it!

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Community assembly history alters relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions during...

Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning depend on the processes structuring community assembly. However, predicting biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships based...

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4 years

Beta diversity is the worst. Thanks for sucking up all my sample size and just generally being a jerk.

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Chris Catano

4 years

I've done as much writing in past 2 weeks as I'd typically do in 1 day. Normally I write first thing after coffee, now I don't get a chance until after 5 hrs of taking care of 3 kids under 5. By then I'm so mentally drained I find it hard to focus/write in the 2 hr window I get.

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3 years

I was deep in thought about a manuscript revision while making the kids lunch today and then realized I put mayonaise AND peanut butter on their sandwiches... and gave it to them anyways... and they ate them...

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2 years

My postdoc w/ @lars_brudvig has officially ended. Working w/ Lars was amazing; he is so supportive & brilliant! Together we've made strides integrating community assembly theory, ecosystem functioning, and restoration practice. There is so much more to come! Here is a sample:

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@JordanRutledge My dad has a PhD and 2 master's degrees and was a high school teacher. Some of my peers with PhDs and master's degrees became high school teachers. Why? Because they legitimately were passionate about education for our youth.

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3 years

Covid case in kid's daycare room, now he & his brother have to be home for next 10 days. I have a job interview coming up, so of course the timing is perfect! Covid is exacerbating inequities/hardships for ECRs at critical career points. What are we doing about it?

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Chris Catano

4 years

Enjoy our paper w/ @lars_brudvig , Emily Grman & Eric Behrens in the latest issue @ESAEcology Implication: multi- #scale evaluations of #restoration outcomes are necessary to reveal the role of regional processes in the recovery of native #biodiversity

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Chris Catano

4 months

Again, we need to embrace "slow science". The current trends are not sustainable, for science or the people doing it. Better individual decisions are necessary, but for ECRs institutions incentivize these behaviors.

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The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts

Eleven years ago I shared a fairly heavily researched summary of the state of academic publishing. I mostly argued that OA (aka author pays) was a red herring and that we should really pay attentio…

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3 years

Uh, excuse me. You're in my plot.

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Chris Catano

4 years

postdocs have largely been ignored when it comes to covid relief. Our short term contracts are expiring, hiring has slowed/froze, funding hasn't been extended. Many passionate, highly skilled people, especially those already marginalized, will be lost. What r u doing about it?

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Postdocs need urgent financial support amid COVID conditions

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Chris Catano

3 years

Me trying to make sense of my beta diversity results for my esa talk

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Chris Catano

4 years

Somewhere down there in the stinging nettle is the stake I need to flag. Reviewer #2 better appreciate this...

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Chris Catano

3 years

6 yr old was close contact to COVID+ kid in school. Second of our kids this month to be exposed. Each time it is two weeks quarantine at home. This is the reality for working parents. I know many are acting like things are "back to normal", but they aren't for many of us.

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Chris Catano

2 years

Now out @ESAEcology , we show that #spatial dimensions of #biodiversity appear most important for #scaling forest #productivity in heterogenous landscapes. w/ @ReuJackie , @M_J_Spasojevic , @jamyersecology

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Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales

Despite the importance of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships in ecology and conservation, relatively little is known about how BEF relationships change across spatial scales....

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Chris Catano

3 years

@lars_brudvig & I outline a framework to make restoration science more predictive. We need to confront uncertainties head on to develop forecasting capabilities, improve outcomes across scales & inform policy #GenerationRestoration @SERestoration

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Chris Catano

4 years

First year of #DRAGnet sampling is in the books! w/ @lars_brudvig @KelloggBioStn #TallgrassPrairie

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Chris Catano

4 years

Our ESA session was accepted! Get ready to hear from an all-star group, @gerlame , @LG_Shoemaker , @lesldeck , @jamyersecology , @eeb_science , and myself talk about new experimental evidence for the consequences of #stochasticity for community assembly & evolution. w/ @lars_brudvig .

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Chris Catano

5 years

Very excited to be finishing my PhD!

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Chris Catano

5 years

How does biodiversity stabilize ecosystems across scales? Our new paper @RSocPublishing shows that spatial variation in bird composition (beta diversity) has a key role in scaling biomass stability from local to regional ecosystems. w/ @jamyersecology

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Local species diversity, β-diversity and climate influence the regional stability of bird biomass...

Biodiversity often stabilizes aggregate ecosystem properties (e.g. biomass) at small spatial scales. However, the importance of species diversity within communities and variation in species composi...

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Chris Catano

5 years

Just arrived in Michigan to start a dream post-doc with @lars_brudvig ! View of the #LTER @KelloggBioStn from my living room!

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Chris Catano

4 years

Excited to share our new paper in @ESAEcology , w/ Emily Grman, Eric Behrens, and @lars_brudvig . We show species pool size causes scale‐dependent effects on diversity in grasslands undergoing restoration by altering the shape of species‐area relationships.

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Chris Catano

3 years

#DRAGnet seedbank germanition from our praire site @KelloggBioStn . Number of individuals ready to ID! @NutNetGlobal

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Chris Catano

4 years

Day 2 (year 3) sampling our large praire restoration experiment (576 plots) in w/ @lars_brudvig ! We want to understand how the diversity and rate of seed arrival alters community assembly and restoration outcomes.

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Chris Catano

2 years

Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales Excited to share our new paper in @ESAEcology led by the amazing @ReuJackie , former @WUSTLBio undergrad and @WashUTyson fellow, with myself, @M_J_Spasojevic & @jamyersecology .

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Beta diversity as a driver of forest biomass across spatial scales

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Chris Catano

2 years

Warm Michigan day sampling year 5 of our landscape scale praire restoration experiment @KelloggBioStn . We are testing hypotheses for how species pools & dispersal alter plant community assembly processes.

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4 years

Monarch caterpillar snacking on a milkweed in our prairie community assembly experiment.

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Chris Catano

3 years

I'm working in my office for the first time in 1.5 years! My kids are in school/daycare for the first time in 1.5 years! For this entire time I've been working at home w/ 3 kids under 6. It's been exhausting & unproductive, but I've got to watch them grow.

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1 year

I started a new position @EmoryUniversity working w/ @Jaap_de_Roode ! I am applying multi-scale community assembly theory to understand the role of #microbiomes in mediating tri-trophic interactions between #milkweeds , #monarchs , and protozoan #parasites .

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2 years

Excited to share a new paper with @DrAnnaFunk and @lars_brudvig now online @ESAEcology ! Community assembly history alters relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions during restoration

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Community assembly history alters relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions during...

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4 years

Gave my first seminar on "Scaling-up Ecosystem Restoration" @EasternMichU . Thanks to Emily Grman and Hannah Seidel for hosting me! Found out after a project I presented, the 1st from my postdoc @michiganstateu w/ @lars_brudvig , was accepted at @ESAEcology . I needed a good day...

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Chris Catano

4 years

Finished collecting seed rain from our #DRAGNet site in tallgrass prairie @KelloggBioStn . This is a @NutNetGlobal experiment led by @ll_sullivan & @LG_Shoemaker to understand how dispersal mediates grassland response to disturbance and resources. w/ @lars_brudvig

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Chris Catano

3 years

How to solve two body problem in academia? They say network, discuss with your patner, keep at it. I guess I'll have to rethink my strategy to stay isolated from colleagues, not tell my spouse what I was planning, then give up immediately. Super helpful!

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Chris Catano

5 months

Ecologists, how you aggregate spatial data matters! Are your spatial units arbitrary (e.g., 1x1-m plots, 0.5° cells)? Sensitive to aggregation scale/grain? Defined by some real, ecologically informed criterion?

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The most important geospatial concept? The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. It can be the difference between reliable and deceptive results. Here’s what you need to know about it:

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3 years

I'm way past burnt out. Working the last year from home, isolated from colleagues, and surrounded by 3 kids 5 and under who've also been home for a year, with no family around to help... I'll never be able to convey how difficult it's been mentally or physically to get shit done.

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A year into the coronavirus pandemic, many in the academic scientific workforce are experiencing a state of chronic exhaustion known as burnout. In one survey, more than half of people said they were considering changing their career or retiring early.

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Chris Catano

5 years

I successfully defended my dissertation @WUSTLBio ! It has been an amazing 4.5 years in St. Louis and I have made great friends @M_J_Spasojevic @18_malvina . I am so excited to announce I will be starting a postdoc w/ @lars_brudvig at Michigan State very soon!!! #LivingTheDream

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Chris Catano

3 years

As a masters student my stipend was $10k/yr, which required 20 hrs/wk of TA + my research (funded entirely through grants I won). My advisor, who was retired, paid pub fees from his personal bank account. I entered my ms program w/ thousands saved & left $35k in debt.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Ready for my first burn of our Conservation Lands Experiment in restored prairie @KelloggBioStn !

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Chris Catano

2 years

The ever expanding requirements to land a TT position are unsustainable. Average hire last year postdoced for 4 years. I am now 15 years post undergrad (MS, Biological Scientist, PhD, Postdoc).

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Chris Catano

5 years

Just popped into the lab for the morning (I promise I'm enjoying being lazy over the hollidays) and found @lars_brudvig has left a little treat for us for to kick off the new year. Thanks, Lars!

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Chris Catano

3 years

Early view of our new paper is out @JAppliedEcology ! Soil resources mediate the strength of species but not trait convergence across grassland restorations. @lars_brudvig @DrAnnaFunk @crzirbel @JonathanTBauer et al. #GenerationRestoration #biodiversity

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Chris Catano

3 years

Done sampling our #DRAGNet @NutNetGlobal plots in restored tallgrass prairie @KelloggBioStn ! Now for the first nutrient and disturbance treatment applications!

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1 year

Excited to share our new paper led by @joeatkinsonii . We show interannual variation in planting year precipitation creates divergent trait assembly pathways in grassland restoration. W/ @DrAnnaFunk @lars_brudvig & Isaac Towers. @KelloggBioStn

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Chris Catano

3 years

Working from home with small children (home sick from daycare) is an effort of pure concentration.

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Chris Catano

5 years

Seed rain carpets are here! Excited to set up our #DRAGnet site @KelloggBioStn w/ @lars_brudvig . Part of @NutNetGlobal experiment led by @ll_sullivan and @LG_Shoemaker to understand how/why dispersal, disturbance, and nutrients alter grassland biodiversity.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Check out our organized session on the Consequences of Stochasticity for Communities: Linking Theory and Experiments #ESA2021 W/ myself and @lars_brudvig @gerlame @LG_Shoemaker @lesldeck @jamyersecology

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Chris Catano

5 years

Starting year 2 census of prairies in an experiment with @lars_brudvig and others to understand how/why species pool size and seed arrival rates alter the predictability of community assembly outcomes.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Do you routinely (or ever) have someone review your code prior to submitting a manuscript? I often see this recommended but have never heard of people doing this, nor done it myself or been asked to do it for someone else.

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Chris Catano

4 years

What's happening? Well, I'm trying to work from home while 3 kids are locked into a death battle over some Legos, which is somehow leading to the destruction of my house, ear drums, and soul. This is what my work day (what's left of it) looks like ... every day for the last 11 mo

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Chris Catano

5 years

Great start to the morning. Opened up my inbox to learn a ms from my dissertation has been accepted @RSocPublishing . Will soon share our empirical research on how/why biodversity contributes to scaling stability in heterogeneous regional ecosystems!

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Chris Catano

4 years

Setting up a new #DragNet site in restored prairie @KelloggBioStn ! Awesome to work with @lars_brudvig and be part of @NutNetGlobal 's initiative to understand how disturbance, resources, and dispersal shape grassland community assembly!

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Chris Catano

4 years

Visitors to our restored prairie plots: Azure bluet damselfly, Baltimore checkerspot, and a pair of Clouded sulfers.

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Chris Catano

4 years

Between my wife's work schedule, homeschooling, and watching 3 kids, I will have 11.5 uninterrupted hs/wk to work. The rest of the work time (~30 hrs) will need to be while multitasking w/ kids, late evenings/nights after kids go to sleep, and on weekends. 1/2

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Chris Catano

1 year

Very excited that former undergrad & current collaborator @ReuJackie won the @NSF GRFP and will be starting her PhD at Berkeley! So well deserved. If you missed it, check out her paper in @ESAEcology from her undergraduate honors thesis:

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Chris Catano

3 years

Check out our new article in the special section on the UN Decade of Ecosystem Resoration! We find that increasing dominance of a native competitor causes plant species, but not trait convergence across grassland restorations at the regional scale.

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Chris Catano

4 years

Out of moral & ethical responsibility, I will no longer consider @NatureNews journals for my work or review services. Their poor editorial practices ( @NatureComms ) and greedy, exploitative OA publication model perpetuate inequities, bigotry & exclusionary actions in research.

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Chris Catano

2 years

Abstract submitted for #BES ! Will be presenting first 5 years of data from our experiment @KelloggBioStn to understand how species pools & dispersal cause variability in community assembly processes across scales. w/ @lars_brudvig

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Chris Catano

2 years

Two Fabaceae seeded into our prairie community assembly experiment - Senna hebecarpa & Astragalus canadensis - growing strong on the resource rich end of the soils gradient.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Join our live session on The Consequences of Stochasticity for Communities: Linking Theory and Experiments Thursday from 10-11 EDT (7-9 PDT)! Come chat with me, @gerlame , @TadashiFukami , @LG_Shoemaker , @jamyersecology , and @lars_brudvig #ESA2021

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2 years

Proud to announce I have accepted a position as the head coach of the girls U8 Tucker Youth Soccer Association! LFG!

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Chris Catano

3 years

Excited to have NSF REU student Lydia Rooney (pictured front) join our team @BrudvigLab this summer! She is starting a new project to understand how metacommunity dynamics (species pool size, dispersal rate, heterogeneity) influence ecosystem functions in restored prairies.

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Chris Catano

5 months

Many papers these days are showing things that have been well-established & accepted, but passing them off as new insights/ideas. Reproducible results are important, but are people ignorant of prior work or is this the result of the overemphasis on 'novelty' in publishing?

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2 years

Check out the write-up of our recent paper on the importance of history in biodiversity ecosystem functioning research. Meet the people & the place @KelloggBioStn

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More biodiversity isn’t a silver bullet for ecosystem restoration | MSUToday | Michigan State...

Experts and a unique research site at MSU are showing how the history of land being restored shapes the future and success of conservation efforts

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Chris Catano

2 years

Approaching 1 year since we started germinating plants from the seed bank of our @DragnetGlobal restored praire @KelloggBioStn to understand how dispersal mediates community responses to disturbance × resources. Hundreds of individuals later there a just a few left to ID.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Get a glimpse of what we've found so far (from the 2nd year of this experiment) in our #esa2021 talk. Can't wait to pull together the last four years of data!

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Lars Brudvig

3 years

Fourth year of data in the books from our big (576 plot!) prairie restoration experiment, testing the the role of seed arrival for plant community assembly Great job @catano_chris and @crwarneke !

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Combine this with the lack of competitive salaries and delayed wealth investments and you don't have a great model for recruiting and retaining the most talented, healthy, or diverse academic professorship.

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Chris Catano

3 years

Soil samples from #DRAGnet are in the greenhouse! Led by @ll_sullivan & @LG_Shoemaker , we are learning how recruitment from the seedbank and dispersal alters plant community recovery in response to disturbance and nutrients @NutNetGlobal @KBSLTER

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Want to understand why local community assembly outcomes can be so variable, even under similar conditions? Check out our new #Concepts & #Synthesis @ESAEcology paper on the role of trait variation in species pools, led by @M_J_Spasojevic .

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2 years

Made it to Edinburgh! Looking forward to my first #BES2022

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Adding complexity and biodiversity into agricultural landscapes through precision conservation

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Chris Catano

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I do not currently have projects for postdocs, but am always happy to work with anyone to develop a proposal if they are interested in pursuing their own funding (e.g. Smith Fellows Program, USDA AFRI Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology).

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Chris Catano

2 years

We know environmental variation is important for structuring biodiversity across scales, but what happens when we change the size of the species pool or immigration rates? I'll have an answer at #BES2020 , Dec 21 9:00 AM in Community Ecology: Conservation & Restoration. Come see!

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Chris Catano

2 years

It is postdoc appreciation week. Yet I can't help feeling disheartened about my future prospects when I've see multiple AMAZING & productive scientists I've aspired to leave Academia because they couldn't secure permenant employment that valued their committment & contributions.

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Chris Catano

5 years

Had a great breakfast this morning with @KatharineSuding and @lars_brudvig chatting about the importance of good demography work for understanding community dynamics and predicting restoration outcomes.

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Chris Catano

4 years

Just workshopped some hypotheses with @M_J_Spasojevic where we went back in forth over email and text simultaneously. Was this ideal? No. Was this efficient? No. Did we at least figure it out? Also, no. I'm ready to work with my colleagues & friends in the same room again.

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Chris Catano

4 years

These kids (3 & 5) don't respect the 7+ age suggestion on the Lego box. One pterodactyl and anglerfish (female+male) coming up!

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The brainstorming has started @DragnetGlobal !

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Chris Catano

1 year

I only submit to, review, & edit for society journals (w/ rare exceptions). I consider this part of my job & contribution to my field. From now on, for-profit publishers requesting services will need to sign my terms sheet. I bill $275.00/hour as an independent contractor.

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Chris Catano

6 years

Beautiful chert woodlands and dolomite glades of the Missouri Ozarks. These habitats at Ha Ha Tonka State Park exist thanks to active restoration and management with prescribed fire.

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Chris Catano

3 years

of course when I say we, I mean what are people in power doing about it? Tenure-promotion committees? Search committees? Funding agencies for ECRs? So far, other than the extremely good graces of my PI, I feel forgotten.

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Chris Catano

4 years

Everyday, my daughter and I draw a bird we see in our yard. We're using Crayola markers and crayons. She is making a collage of all of them on her bedroom wall. #StayHome Today: Black-capped Chickadee

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Chris Catano

2 years

@DragnetGlobal @KBSLTER Spring post year 1 treatments in Michigan restored tallgrass prairie (clockwise from top-right: #nutrients , control, #disturbance +nutrients, disturbance).

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Chris Catano

8 years

I'm Chris, an #actuallivingscientist and dad who studies how disturbances like drought & fire affect plants, wildlife & their ecosystems.

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Chris Catano

3 years

My 4 yr old witnessed a predator-prey interaction today on our walk. We stopped to watch a crow and talk about how smart they are, then suddenly it grabbed a baby bunny, flew up to the roof, then proceeded to rip it to shreds and eat it. It's tough out there...

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Chris Catano

1 year

Check out our new paper led by @nwisnoski from our @USLTER synthesis group.

@ESAEcology

Ecology

1 year

New in @ESAEcology : Diversity-stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales With #OpenData in @edigotdata #Metacommunities #Synchrony #Stability #Biodiversity #NSFFunded @NSF

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Chris Catano

2 years

Twitter is dead and Mastadon is boring. I guess I'll have to interact with people in real life again. I'll be at #BES if anyone wants to chat or hang out.

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Chris Catano

3 years

If you are soliciting award nominations based on producticity and service, make it clear how covid hardship statements can be considered. Not considering this will perpetuate inequities in academia. You should know this by now...

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Chris Catano

3 years

@TadashiFukami @Stanford Great list. Here's one I think is really important for community ecology (though not necessarily specific to community ecology): The problem of pattern and scale in Ecology, 1992, SA Levin.

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Chris Catano

7 months

Candidates' Rate My Professor scores should not be used in decisions for hiring! Not only are student evaultion scores biased and poor indicators of an educators successes in the classroom, but a website that until recently rated how hot teachers are is especially bad!

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Chris Catano

4 years

80% of my daughter's time spent in kindergarten thus far is her listening to her teacher tell the class "please turn off your microphone if there are people talking behind you". Apparently 5 yr olds suck at managing zoom meetings on Chromebooks

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Chris Catano

1 year

I updated #R & packages for the first time in about 2 years. There are not strong enough swear words to capture how annoyed I am right now.

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Chris Catano

4 years

Today I took the kids on a field trip for science class. First stop was an ephemeral pond where we learned to ID frogs based on their calls. We sampled 5 ponds this way and found that the larger ponds had more kinds of calls. Fun intro to species-area relationships.

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