Lars Brudvig

@lars-brudvig.bsky.social

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Plant, restoration, and landscape ecologist https://www.brudviglab.com/ (he/him)

compass plant (Silphium laciniatum)
A spider and web, in a forest
Culver's root (Veronicastrum virginicum) blooming with slender mountain mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium), tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris), and pale indian plantain (Arnoglossum atriplicifolium),
A field of big bluestem, gray-headed coneflower, and other prairie plants
blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
A camp fire next to a lake
Dinosaur Jr. throw down...in Lansing, Michigan!
An oak barrens being managed by prescribed fire and tree thinning
And oak savanna restoration
A small prairie planting
A small planted prairie next to a driveway
Eastern sensitive briar (Mimosa microphylla)
Spurred butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum)
Eastern prickly pear (Opuntia humifusa)
Soft greeneyes (Berlandiera pumila)
Sandhills milkweed (Asclepias humistrata)
Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
A graph showing effects of plantation forest edge proximity, for a set of longleaf pine ground layer plants.
A four-panel figure. Panel A shows a map of the 15 experimental oak savanna units within the MSU MacCready Reserve. Panel B shows a treatment unit managed with tree thinning and repeated prescribed fire, with savanna structure. Panel C shows a treatment unit managed with repeated prescribed fire, with woodland structure. Panel D shows an unmanaged treatment unit, with brushy forest structure.
A prairie under a partly cloudy sky
A structural equation model explaining oak savanna groundlayer plant diversity based on management, soils, and aspects of ecosystem structure
A graph showing how prairie plant responses to seeding density treatments vary along a soil water holding capacity gradient
A gulf fritillary visiting pinkscale blazingstar
A view within the SRS Fragmentation Experiment
Liatris squarrulosa
Holding a book: A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing, by Martin Nuñez
New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae), gray goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), and black-eyed Susan
A field of goldenrod with t-posts in it
An oak savanna
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
An oak savanna plot receiving prescribed fire and tree thinning management
Monarch (Danaus plexippus) nectaring on butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
Purple coneflower, big bluestem, etc in a prairie reconstruction at Kellogg Biological Station
A bumblebee on purple coneflower
An oak savanna plot receiving prescribed fire and tree thinning management
Hartwick Pines old growth forest
A view down M-185
Upper Tahquamenon Falls
Freighters off Whitefish Point
A hand holding a Petoskey stone
Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula)
Two ecologists posing with vegetation sampling frames in a reconstructed prairie
An array of reconstructed prairie plots
An oak savanna undergoing restoration by tree thinning and prescribed fire
Southern jointweed (Polygonella americana)
A small prairie planting next to a driveway
Ants nectaring on common milkweed
Swamp rose (Rosa palustris)
Fly poison (Amianthium muscitoxicum)
Common buckeye
Racemed milkwort (Polygala polygama)
A deer exclosure with an oak savanna being restored by prescribed fire and tree thinning
Wild potato vine (Ipomoea pandurata)
Foxglove beard-tongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Carolina rose (Rosa carolina)
Starry rosinweed (Silphium dentatum)
Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
Morning fog in the Corridor Project fragmentation experiment
Spurred butterfly pea (Centrosema virginianum)