Simon Heyes
Rare plants | drought and climate change | soil specialist plants | grassy ecosystems
PhD student @ La Trobe, Australia
He/Him
Fedi: ecoevo.social/@SimonDHeyes
Blog: sdheyes.wixsite.com/ecologyblog
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- Nice surprise to find these Drosera pygmaea and still some other annuals in flower in a grassland in January!
- Reposted by Simon HeyesFully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
- Reposted by Simon HeyesLevel B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪 Please repost Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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- Reposted by Simon HeyesAustralia is not like this. Those two horrible guys and the creeps who poisoned their minds are like this. The vast majority want to go to Hanukkah, or Christmas, or Diwali , or just a picnic with the family or a public screening of a movie, without violence. Community. That’s who we are. #auspol xx
- Reposted by Simon Heyes🌱Angela also sat down with our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett to talk about how she went from seed science to applied ecology, and falling into a career in academia 🎧Listen to the podcast here: buff.ly/2augoKE
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- Reposted by Simon Heyes#Styphelia ericoides (Ericaceae), aka the pink beard heath! This is a widespread shrub to 2m high that has typical beard-heath flowers: tubular and densly hairy (bearded) on the inside. The flowers are very small (1-1.5mm long), creamy-white with pink tips. #plants #photography
- I've spent the last few weekends at an incredibly diverse grassland here in central Victoria looking at species richness in the long absence of fire (probably 20 yrs in some cases). It's a cracking grassland with a wonderful diversity of annuals we don't usually see anymore 🌱🌏
- In the last 10 years this grassland has started to experience an explosion of shrub encroachment from hedge wattle (Acacia paradoxa) and Wirilda (Acacia provincialis)
- Reposted by Simon HeyesCheck out our new pub led by lab postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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- PhD opportunity in my co-supervisors lab for a keen domestic student to work on a CSIRO industry scholarship. Follow the link for more information. research.csiro.au/iphd-opportu...
- Reposted by Simon HeyesAfter some days visiting a few burnt areas in northern Argentinian Patagonia, here are some species that resprout from the base after a wildfire: Lomatia hirsuta (Proteaceae), Aristotelia chilensis (Elaeocarpaceae), Schinus patagonica (Anacardiaceae), Nothofagus antarctica (Nothofagaceae)
- Reposted by Simon HeyesTiny Daisy Island in a sea of yellow sand! The Mossy Sunray #Hyalosperma demissum, part Gnaphalieae tribe, many of this genera looks like a showy everlasting but some like this one dont scream Aster at first glance! Up close tho they are a really cute species worthy of getting down to ground level!
- I spent last week demonstrating in Natimuk with over 80 second year botany students. Inch flora galore and a new one for me was Centrolepis cephaloformis (new favourite? Maybe). By far the highlight was watching the green veil come down for the students and watching them become budding botanists 🌏
- Reposted by Simon Heyes🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology
- Reposted by Simon HeyesRiverbank erosion in SW Australia exposed previously undocumented root clusters in Kingia australis. Research by Lamont et al. suggests these novel 'kingioid roots' enhance water and nutrient uptake rather than storage, linking with seasonal root-cluster types🫚 Paper here 🔗 buff.ly/Hi3BxLE
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- New paper looking at hybrid origin of a rare endemic shrub from my co-supervisor, Susan Hoebee's lab. A first publication for many of the authors, represents work completed during Mark Clifton's hons and a collaboration between researchers at La Trobe and community groups 🌏🧪 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
- Back in Australia and on the hunt for cool galls (my new hobby). First two are Uromycladium paradoxae, a gall forming rust fungi in Acacia paradoxa. The second two are rather special. They're Mesostoa kerri, a species of Braconid gall wasp and a major range extension for this species 🧪 #ecology
- I asked the new PhD level ChatGPT a question and can conclude that it is still as dumb as a brick.
- Reposted by Simon HeyesToday we wrapped up the 10th summer of vegetation surveys in our KBS prairie restoration (reconstruction) experiment, testing how the geographic origin and species diversity of seeds used to initiate restoration affects long-term ecological dynamics @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social
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- The number of different gall forming wasp species on Oak trees blows my mind. They're absolute super hosts for a some wonderful different galls. These are just a few I've run into near my parents place in Wigan, Lancashire.
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