Kevin Wilcox

I am a grassland ecologist with a focus on climate change impacts

[Grassland Ecology Lab @GrasslandEcol]

PhD position in Global Change and Savanna Ecology at the University of Wyoming. Reminder: Applications due this Friday for full consideration, see link for full details. Please RT. https://t.co/LpZSvKqyXi

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Super excited about this!

[Grassland Ecology Lab @GrasslandEcol]

We're recruiting a PhD student to start this fall in our lab! The student will study biodiversity as a driver of ecosystem recovery after extreme events in Kruger National Park. We encourage peoples from underrepresented groups in science to apply. https://t.co/LpZSvKI9OQ

[Grassland Ecology Lab @GrasslandEcol]

Master's candidate Ashley Dupuis successfully defended her thesis today, woohoo!!! Wyoming big sagebrush tolerate multi-year drought relatively well, until drought magnitude becomes very extreme. #DroughtOnTheRange

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@IntegratEcology @PhenoCam Good question. Need to do some calculations for that one! I'd bet we're still behind by a fair bit though.

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Many grasslands across the front range got some much needed snow this weekend to break a winter #DroughtOnTheRange. Might just be the most important precipitation event of 2021! #RanchingUnderDrought. Many thanks to @PhenoCam and for these pics.

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@MeghanAvolio Yep, gotta love google draw (google drawing?)

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Working around the clock to discover effects of global change drivers on phylogenetic and functional trait diversity. Literally, around the clock!

[Kim Komatsu @drkimkomatsu]

Great #datasynthesis working week with the sCoRRE working group! Time zones were no barrier for this amazing team!
@MeghanAvolio @kaitkimm @idiv

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

I found my reading material for this week!

[Andrew Tredennick @ATredennick]

Our new paper - A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology - is now online @ESAEcology https://t.co/4d7l6J7KZn. Nothing new here per se. We found it useful to put a bunch of info in one place. Hopefully others find it useful, too.

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Can't wait to see those deep emerald post-burn hills in the spring!

[Konza Director @KonzaDirector]

A successful start to the 2021 burning season!

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Nice story that shows how our simple solutions (i.e., planting trees to offset carbon emissions) aren't always so simple. And it's less than 7 minutes! Give it a watch.

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Very nice article all about one of the best predictors of how ecosystems will respond to future changes in climate.

[Alan Knapp @alan_knapp]

Check it out! A 36-yr record of productivity and a thorough analysis of the determinants of its spatiotemporal variability.

Sensitivity of productivity to precipitation amount and pattern varies by topographic position in a semiarid grassland https://t.co/9fZE9MSYYe

[UNCG_EcoConservation @UNCG_EcoConserv]

Sarah is cruising through soil samples to study effects of drought and grazing intensity! She's looking at the enzymes that microbes pump into the soil to break down plant matter and animal waste. We'll let you know what we learn!

#Droughtontherange
#RanchingUnderDrought

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@Elsie_Denton Thanks! We'll be tracking these plots for the next three years to see how they recover under different grazing regimes. Should be interesting!

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@mueller_ke @GrasslandEcol Good call -- these results are from northern mixed grass prairie within the bounds of the Thunder Basin National Grassland in eastern Wyoming (closest town is Bill, WY)

[Grassland Ecology Lab @GrasslandEcol]

Check it out: Conservative grazing regimes sustain palatability of dominant grass species even under an extreme multi-year drought.
#DroughtOnTheRange #RanchingUnderDrought

[Tercia Strydom @Tercia_S]

Savannas are resilient and recover just 1 year post-drought, even though they recover at first with yucky forbs - with @wilcoxkr @SallyKoerner and @Saeonews Dave Thompson

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Very nice talk by @mdtfrost at #ESA2020 showing that different brome species can have very different impacts on native mixed grass plant communities. I wonder why!
https://t.co/jMoqWNHM9R

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@Philanth1988 Hi Abdur'raheem, yes these are PhD positions. This is because the time frame of the related projects is a little too long for a MS. Hope this helps!

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

Two graduate student positions in grassland vegetation ecology available at the University of Wyoming to start in January 2021. Please share! @UWyoPiE
https://t.co/l9TnzDaARm
https://t.co/Tu5fp99qOq

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@LauGherardi Thanks Lau, know of a way for folks to access ECOLOG posts without logging into the system?

[Kevin Wilcox @wilcoxkr]

@JAjowele @UWyoPiE Hi Joshua, sorry the link isn't working for you. Perhaps try this link and then navigate to the "lab opportunities" tab.

https://t.co/tH9QbZcHav