fletcher-h.bsky.social
Disease Ecology. Biodiversity. Global Change.
PI of the Disease Ecology and Diversity Lab at Oregon State University https://agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu/diseaseecology/
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We have a postdoc position on "Evolution of cross-kingdom RNA crosstalk". The project is on sRNA evolution in plant pathogens studied via pangenomics.
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We have a postdoc position on "Fungal population genomics" focused on domestication and co-invasion processes in diverse fungi.
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We have a postdoc position on "Beetle-fungus co-invasion genomics" looking at ambrosia beetle/fungi symbionts across the globe. Collab with WSL Zurich.
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We have a postdoc position on "Deep learning for evolutionary genomics" with a focus on genome structure evolution, introgression detection and more.
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Similar conceptual unification could improve our understanding of plant defense and host quality, plant functional composition, leaf damage versus consumer abundance and impacts, host specialization, global change, and interactions between herbivores and pathogens.
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Hopefully this paper can serve as a starting point for advancing a synthesis of biodiversity-consumer relationships across consumer groups and taxonomic divides, but this synthesis is far from complete.
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In the paper, we organize these five fundamental factors in the form of a causal model. This model allows us to then explore similarities and differences between responses of pathogens and herbivores to altered biodiversity, and to make suggestions for future research.
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But then we started to notice some key similarities among these hypotheses. Despite differences in life histories, terminology, direction, and magnitude, these hypotheses seem to share at least one of five non-exclusive fundamental factors mediating the impact of biodiversity on consumer damage.
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First, we organized published hypotheses linking changing diversity to consumer damage across consumer groups - this was a big task! Not surprisingly, there are a lot of hypotheses (>20) and they differ in terminology across consumer groups. I left this exercise feeling quite overwhelmed.
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Pathogens and herbivores differ in key life history characteristics, and we expected that these might drive differences in terminology, patterns, and hypotheses in the published literature.
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Last winter, @suzeveringham.bsky.social, Max Bröcher, @ebelingae.bsky.social, @annekempel.bsky.social, Fabiane Mundim, Alex Strauss, @zoexiro.bsky.social, Mayank Kohli, and I got together to try and reconcile differences between research studying biodiversity's effects on herbivory and disease
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Amazing!! Congratulations!