♻️ Vitis vinifera L. varieties (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay) vary in leaf water flux in response to elevated CO2 growing conditions and a gradual water deficit by Alessandra Zuniga and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Cake! our department has an annual Botany Bake Off, which this year was won by Josua. That is a £D printed flux tower with a functional CO2 sensor. Hlf the cake has a lot of different colouts, represnting plant diversity in the real world and the other half has only two, like in a model.

New exciting paper with Lu Fluxes involvement, highlighting how trees, ponds and grazing strongly shape greenhouse gas dynamics in Sahel savannas, showing how complex and dynamic semi‑arid ecosystems really are. Well Done Alek! @beccsweden.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social

Here comes Santa Flux, here comes Santa Flux Right down Santa Flux Lane Mixin’ and Fixin’ and all his reindeers Pullin' on the reins Bells are ringin', children singin' All is merry and bright So hang your stockings and say your prayers 'Cause Santa Flux comes tonight.

We're headed to #AGU25 next week! Time for beignets, boudin and booth goodies. See more of what you can expect at Booth 311 here: www.licor.com/conference/A....

The final episode of our podcast is available, which means that the entire book is now available. Check out Episode 10 here: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Episode 9 of the podcast is now available. This time: Mesophyll Conductance -- what is it, why would you measure it, and what can go wrong if you try? www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops #TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.

The Fall Newsletter is OUT! 🍁 Feat: Riverdale students doing salamander research, a recap from @hannahgais.bsky.social , and forest updates. Read it now: www.blackrockforest.org/newsletter #BlackRockForest #FieldResearch #Science #FieldStation

California just hit a major milestone for #ClimateScience! In the heart of CAL FIRE’s Jackson Demonstration State Forest, a brand-new carbon monitoring tower listens to the forest breathe. youtu.be/rFE3ZBrgoMY #ClimateAction #ForestManagement #Redwoods #Sustainability

In our ECOSENSE forest we are monitoring ecosystem processes and stresses in real-time using distributed sensor networks: Our new @egu.eu preprint discusses the implementation of this major technical infrastructure and its data management @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social - doi.org/10.5194/egus...

We are going back to basics measuring light curves on sun and shade leaves of Hedera helix in the practical course for biology Bachelot's students!

Episode 8 of the podcast is available now. This week, we're focusing on the fluorescence and gas exchange measurements combo-pack and our "guest speaker" is Dr. Ian Smillie from our European support team. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

There's no conductance from this sunflower leaf. Maybe we should call tech support?

Episode 7 of our podcast is out today! Listen to Seton and Elizabeth (yes, that Elizabeth!) describe the considerations to choose the perfect leaf for your gas exchange measurements. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Catch up: Part 2 (July 26th, dry heath) - #CarbonFluxes in control & warmed plots ( #OTC ≈ +1 °C), rapid weather shifts ⛅, plus plant height 🌱 and other environmental drivers' measurements. bsky.app/profile/blan...

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Blepharis furcata at Klein Aus Vista, Namibia, is one of three Blepharis species with intraspecific variation in C4 cycle integration. Image courtesy of Matt Stata. 📖 See Stata et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how stomatal traits can be used to breed crops resilient to heat and drought and why now is the time to move from characterization to application. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Get you a support team that will put on a life jacket and paddle a canoe if that's what's needed to explain the details of leaf area index measurements. Photo credit to Erik Johnson in our sales team.

Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich. Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.

Episode 6 of the Leaf to Leaf podcast has been posted. This week: Water, temperature, and Ghostbusters jokes.

My first PhD paper is out! It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way. @unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

The next episode of our podcast has been released. This week: CO2, math, and baked goods. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Honoring the 2025 Physiological & Ecophysiological Section Awards Recipients! 🏅 LI-COR Prize Presentation Award: Daniel Mok 🏅 LI-COR Prize Poster Award: Amelie LeTierce 🏅 Presentation Award: Malinda Barberio 🏅 Poster Award: Osedipo Adegbeyeni Visit: botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz

Up in the canopies! 🌲 Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results! More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

What an inspiring and energizing kick off to the week at #PEPG2025. We spent the morning getting up to speed on our themes, and the afternoon in hands on practical activities thanks to our manufacturing partners! @sebiology.bsky.social

More pictures from theDay 2 for the PEPG 2025 workshop Many thanks to Mengjie Fan for an impressive video

Day 1 of the #PEPGWorkshop kicked off with inspiring talks on leaf gas exchange, fluorescence, water relations, roots & soil, and ecosystems 🌱✨ Afternoon = hands-on + networking!

Have you listened to our Leaf to Leaf Podcast? Episode 4 was released yesterday and should be en-light-ening if you've ever wondered about how and why to set your instrument light levels. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Field working day at the Finnish Open Lab of the rewet-he.eu project. We have been running Eddy Covariance measurements in this remote site since summer 2023, along with the biodiversity studies. The peatland is protected by Natural Heritage Foundation.

We recently received this photo of two photosynthesis instrument "cousins" doing their work at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. The photo is courtesy Carrie Wu (@carriewu.bsky.social) and posted with permission.

Have you listened to our new podcast, Leaf to Leaf? Episode 3 is out now and focuses on stability or the lack thereof (for your instrument, if not your life). www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

Looking for a postdoc in #Ecophysiology, #ThermalEcology, #GlobalChange, or #ForestEcology,? Apply for a #Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with my group at #UBC in beautiful #Vancouver! Proposals are due Oct 20 - get in touch if interested! www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam...

First round of N2O flux measurements from ley (and more crops/treatments) in our new project is underway.

If you left your red Nalgene in the LI-COR booth on Monday, it’s now at the ESA info desk lost and found (along with about ten other water bottles). #ESA2025

That’s a wrap on the exhibits, but there will be roaming LI-COR scientists at #ESA2025 tomorrow, in case you just haven’t talked instrumentation with us enough.

There is about 30 more minutes of exhibits at #ESA2025. Last chance for a discussion or a T-shirt!

It’s the last day of exhibits at #ESA2025 and we still have T-shirts, pens, stickers, squishy sunflowers, and one misplaced Nalgene bottle. Please help us give them away.

The ending CO2 concentration in the exhibit hall at #ESA2025 yesterday was 610 ppm. Can today’s poster session beat it?

Did you leave your red Nalgene bottle at the LI-COR booth yesterday? It is lonely and would like to be reunited with you. #ESA2025

Poster session number one is in full swing at #ESA2025. Do you need a squishy sunflower? 🌻 Yes, yes you do.

The exhibit hall is open again at #ESA2025. There’s tea, coffee, and instruments. One of these things is not drinkable. You decide which one.

The exhibit hall is open at #ESA2025. Come by and say hello! We have instruments and goodies.

It's almost time for #ESA2025. We've packed our bags and our boxes and we'll soon be heading out the door. Who will we see at the Opening Reception on Sunday night?

We're about a week out from #ESA2025 and looking forward to seeing everyone, possibly while walking very quickly from one session to another.

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring. Best Phys/Ecophys Oral Presentation: Malinda Barberio, University of Wisconsin - Madison "Exploring Foliar Water Uptake in Neotropical Epiphytes" . . . #bsaecophys #botany2025

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring. Best Phys/Ecophys Poster: Osedipo Adegbeyeni, University of Utah "A Comparative study of isohydric and anisohydric strategies in leaves and photosynthetic stems in two desert Utah sites" . . #bsaecophys #botany2025

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring. Best LI-COR Oral Presentation: Daniel Mok, Michigan State University "CAM photosynthesis in the carnivorous plant genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae)" . . . #bsaecophys #botany2025

Congrats to the section award winners. Thanks @li-corenv.bsky.social for sponsoring. Best LI-COR Poster : Amelie LeTierce, University of Minnesota - Duluth "Beauty is Skin Deep: Obscured Chlorophyll is Photosynthetic in Zinnia elegans Flowers" . . . #bsaecophys #botany2025

Are you an early career in plant biology? Do you want to get a travel grant to go to Ottawa for #PlantBio2026? Do you have what it takes to present your research in 3 minutes? Sign up for the 3MT interest form. @aspbofficial.bsky.social @aspb-pui.bsky.social @plantaeofficial.bsky.social