Kathryn Flinn
@FlinnLab
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Ecologist | Writer | Educator | Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University. AKA Katie. Find me at @flinnlab.bsky.social
Berea, Ohio
Joined August 2015
So proud of my lab's first paper with the first author a @BaldwinWallace undergraduate. Another fruitful collaboration with @clevemetroparks informing forest conservation in northeast Ohio. Congrats Skyanne! https://t.co/8ixNvFG50d
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Plant Ecology - Changes in land use have radically impacted forests in the USA over the past several centuries. This study examined how the long-term effects of agricultural land use shape the...
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"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth
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Ecologists seek to understand how species distributions relate to environmental factors, but often these relationships are radically human-altered. @Flinnlab et al use historical data & SDMs to understand the presettlement distributions of forest trees.
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Using species distribution models to map the presettlement vegetation of northeast Ohio, we found that tree distributions depended largely on elevation and slope. Fagus grandifolia had the largest...
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Ecologists seek to understand how spp distributions relate to environmental factors, but often relationships are radically human-altered. Our new @JVegSci paper uses historical data in niche models to understand presettlement distributions of forest trees.
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Using species distribution models to map the presettlement vegetation of northeast Ohio, we found that tree distributions depended largely on elevation and slope. Fagus grandifolia had the largest...
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The remarkable story of the dawn redwood – how a living fossil long thought extinct brought humanity together in the middle of a World War
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How an ancient survivor of the unsurvivable became a triumph of the human spirit in a divided world.
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Biodiversity loss is not only about extinctions It is also the degradation of ecosystems - supporting a few generalist species, with reduced food webs, & looking the same wherever you go As seen over much of the UK
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My first ever opinion piece for the @guardian! In it, I delve into the Wood Wide Web, the rise of scientific myths (including the Great Wood of Caledon), and why we should not fear difficult ideas. https://t.co/KsuSKwChjr
theguardian.com
The debate about the degree to which forests and fungi communicate raises the painful question of confirmation bias, says author Sophie Yeo
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Spread the word... All 1938 aerial photos of Cuyahoga County, Ohio are now freely available to everyone in this digital archive: https://t.co/ptRmv3EOrc
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Is there a #woodwideweb? For @Nature_news I look at the science behind this idea – and how scientists working in #forestecogy, #soils and #fungi feel about popular claims that trees care for each other via a fungal network in the soil
nature.com
Nature - A popular theory about how trees cooperate has enchanted the public and raised the profile of forest conservation. But some ecologists think its scientific basis has been oversold.
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Here's your friendly reminder that the best time to prune a Bradford Pear is any time your saw is sharp, and the ideal cut is horizontal and 4 inches from the ground. This is mostly for you @drdavecoyle.
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BW faculty and student researching together ~ Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study tracks the change
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A Baldwin Wallace researcher hopes her work on the current state of Cuyahoga County's tree canopy will help conservationists working to protect existing forests and help to inform reforestation...
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Listen for the story about our research today during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on our local NPR station, WKSU 89.7 @Ideastream. Thanks to Ida Lieszkovszky for her thorough reporting! @BaldwinWallace
https://t.co/tRwhe7KyBX
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A Baldwin Wallace researcher hopes her work on the current state of Cuyahoga County's tree canopy will help conservationists working to protect existing forests and help to inform reforestation...
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Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study from @BaldwinWallace @FlinnLab tracks the change. Terrific coverage by @Ideastream News 🌳 https://t.co/bb7R6Pp9Oa
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A Baldwin Wallace researcher hopes her work on the current state of Cuyahoga County's tree canopy will help conservationists working to protect existing forests and help to inform reforestation...
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“We soon learned that far greater threat to the land lay in road-building than in logging the timber.” For the latest @SmithsonianMag, I wrote about the history of public lands road construction and the movement to unmake our infrastructure. #roadecology
https://t.co/wMSYRRd67s
smithsonianmag.com
Can demolishing abandoned dirt paths point the way to a more sustainable future?
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Great 5-minute video interview of me explaining our latest work on land use change and forest history in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Thanks Liv Ream and @CoolCleveland! https://t.co/Zo0KNaYFdZ
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My first research experience was in a herbarium @williamandmary. In fact, I got to visit and exchange specimens with many herbaria for that project. I got drawn in to the potential to study ecological history via collections and never looked back.
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Great new resource for helping you select what species of trees to plant in your yard! Based on height, growth rate, sun/shade tolerance, lifespan, soil type, soil moisture, climate tolerance, stress tolerance. https://t.co/ikClcCJ31D Thanks @clevemetroparks!
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Yay for transforming golf courses into wild habitat, like @CVNPNPS and @clevemetroparks is doing! https://t.co/oMubpgbvTC
nytimes.com
Most defunct golf courses get paved over, but a number are getting transformed into ecological life rafts for wildlife, plants — and people.
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Do you know any students or recent graduates interested in exploring park careers? We post paid and unpaid internships at https://t.co/27pUc2hVaf. We currently have two openings in community engagement and one in our archives. Details are in the link. Photo: NPS/Penny Uhlenbrock.
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