Yingying Xie 谢莹莹
Plant ecologist at Northern Kentucky University, phenology, biological invasion, species interactions, global change, ecosystems, environmental sciences, data science
- Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹I am a climate scientist and this is correct. As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open. Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Happy New Year! I'm surprised to see springbeauty with flower buds in early January at northern Kentucky. Many are out with young leaves. They are responding to the recent false spring and wasting their energy. Unfortunately they don't know it will be very cold soon. 🙁 #phenology #falsespring
- When fall🍁 meets winter💦. After the first snow at NKU REFS on Nov. 11, 2025.
- Some foliage colors at NKU REFS on Oct. 28 2025. More colors are coming.
- Brilliant fall foliage color of red maple, silver maple, sweetgum, and red oak from Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, although it's about two weeks later than expected 😁
- A spotted cucumber beetle on a New England aster. We are having a really warm #fall.
- After steady rain, hundreds of white Amanita mushrooms come out at NKU REFS, same as last year! Larger than my hand. Have an unpleasant smell when it starts to decay. Are they North America destroying angel, Amanita bisporigera, one of most poisonous fungi? We got so many!😎
- Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹RIP Jane Goodall Full obituary in NYT, gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
- My favorite season is here. This year would be spectacular!
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- Check our new publication about shifted spring ephemeral pollination window impacted by flowering time, pollinator occurrence, and canopy closure under climate change! #phenology #springbeauty #phenologicalmismatch #climatechange @parklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Good morning! Palm Springs! Look forward to the field trip! #Botany2025
- We should talk about global climate change within the context of human history. We aim to protect humans while protecting the environment. Mother nature will be ok eventually, but NOT us. After replying a post from a climate change denier, I realized I should post here so more people can see (1/5).
- I've never seen this before! Antlered flutter fly. So cool! Is this a mating dance? Yesterday evening at NKU REFS.
- Baby robin! Right in front of my parking space, but I didn't notice until yesterday seeing the mommy robin sitting there. Hope they survive in the heat wave and enjoy the summer! ☀️
- This evening at East Fork State Park Beach.
- Interesting #fungi! First time seeing these tiny weird fungi. My colleague and I didn't even think they are actually fungi. I said the ones in the first picture look like coral, while iNatualist suggested they are coral slime fungi. Totally make sense! 😆
- Please help support immigrants in Ohio against the discriminatory bills!
- NKU REFS Talk & Walk Nature Series events this summer will start next week! Everyone is welcome, including families and friends. Come to enjoy fun with nature science and arts!
- #Ticks are crazy this year. My kids made a "tick playground" while waiting for me to get back from the fieldwork.😅😬
- Got some fresh #fungi! Driven by students' interests, we started the mushroom survey at NKU REFS last fall. We continued this year and finally got something exciting after the cold weather and severe flooding. Keep learning about them!
- Very cool study using long-term historical documents for biology! Check the beautiful poems if you know Chinese!
- Dive into our latest issue!🌊 www.cell.com/issue/S0960-... On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Will report from northern Kentucky and Cincinnati 😀
- Suddenly everything is green including poison ivy 😅
- Happy #EarthDay!
- The mark of water on the board showed how severe the flooding was at northern Kentucky on April 6th, which put down most of my time-lapse cameras in the field. The spicebush got damaged too as it was totally underwater.
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- First spring beauty flower seen this year! #spring #phenology
