New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

📢Just out! A new paper by the team in @pnas.org : Observed declines in leaf nitrogen explained by photosynthetic acclimation to CO2! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Maoya Bassiouni, @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social et al.

What a wonderful surprise to see our work reflected in a commentary that so clearly "gets it". Thank you so much @juergenknauer.bsky.social !

A machine learning approach using long-term observations of eddy covariance finds that the increase in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency under higher CO2 is driven primarily by reduction in canopy conductance, rather than stimulation of gross primary productivity www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

What a pleasure to write a News & Views piece on this intriguing article that found surprising insights into WUE trends --> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For a recent review see www.nature.com/articles/s43... "Both short-duration and long-duration (>1 day) rainfall extremes are intensifying with warming at a rate consistent with the increase in atmospheric moisture" (~7% per degree C), but some local convective rainfall events increase even more. 5/5

New Article: "When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evfGV A causality-guided explainable AI framework shows soil moisture dominates vapour pressure deficit in shaping global photosynthesis during water-limited conditions.

Delighted to share our new paper "Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO2-enhanced water-use efficiency: www.nature.com/articles/s41... , which demonstrates the strongly detectable impact of CO2 fertilization on canopy and stomata conductance,

Interested in how plant intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) responds to rising CO2? Our new paper shows that CO2-enhanced iWUE is mainly driven by reduced canopy conductance, while stimulation of ecosystem photosynthesis is less detectable given current data length. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This species-specific study and another latest out global analyses www.nature.com/articles/s41... converge to the same conclusion: enhanced tree/forest growth by the global warming cannot offset the negative impacts causes by disturbances, such as droughts.

This was the first chapter of my PhD but we spent a long long time on reviewing and revising (which indeed greatly improved the quality). This is where we need nice supervisors and coauthors who keep encouraging me regardless of peer criticism and rejection! Also C.Bio. has very good author service!

Our new paper is out on Nature Plants! We found that soil moisture contributes more to ecosystem photosynthesis than VPD for the water-limited periods and water-limited locations, using causality-guided explainable AI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper "When and where soil dryness matters to ecosystem photosynthesis" www.nature.com/articles/s41..., which resolves a long-standing debate as to whether soil moisture or atmospheric dryness dominates water stress response.

Traditionally ESMs didn't actively model human decision-making, but just published today: "E3SM-GCAM: A Synchronously Coupled Human Component in the E3SM Earth System Model Enables Novel Human-Earth Feedback Research" by Alan Di Vittorio et al.! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🌍New paper out today!!! Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations @xiangzluo.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com 🔗👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new Nature Geoscience paper on how persistent Rossby waves patterns are triggering simultaneous hot-dry extremes across western Europe, Asia, and the U.S., severely reducing vegetation productivity and carbon uptake. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do dominant plants' functional traits affect biomass responses to global change? New paper by Mingyan Hu et al uses the large Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative (MESI) database to find out. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Now online: "Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates" by Kelsey Foster et al., including @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social w/ Stanford, PNNL, NAU, and NRC colleagues agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Wanna learn how to partition CO2 fluxes using ML and SIF? 🌱🤖 Come join me on April 8 - it's a talk ➕ a hands-on coding session!

New pub out in @annbot.bsky.social led by Astrid Ode titled "Temporal constraints on leaf-level trait plasticity for next-generation land surface models" We critically examine timescales of trait-environment responses Have a look! @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

The FLUXNET Early Career Network (FLUXNET-ECN) is excited to announce “Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”, a three-day in-person workshop August 6-8th, 2025 focused on integrating flux data for validating and parameterizing land surface models.

eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Can we develop a global #deeplearning #model for daily Soil CO2 efflux? Results show - #LSTM models can use existing data to generate synthetic data for temperate mesic regions - challenges of transferring relationships learned from data-rich to data-poor sites

🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year. 👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪

A global meta-analysis of soil respiration in response to elevated CO2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Did the winter 2024-25 La Niña precipitation pattern perform as predicted? To find out, we compared observed conditions to two ENSO-monitoring indices. See how we did in our newest ENSO blog post! www.climate.gov/news-feature...

📣📖New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social🌿 "Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social 🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE

Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our perspective paper on resilience and tipping points is now out! We outline key principles to guide future research on these critical topics, from dynamical systems to real-world applications. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #Resilience #TippingPoints #Ecology

⬇️ New paper! ⬇️ "Large Language Models for Causal Hypothesis Generation in Science" Can LLMs help uncover hidden causal patterns? This paper explores how AI, data-driven methods, and expert knowledge can work together to unlock discoveries! 🚀 🔗 tr.ee/LargeLanguag...

Happy to share a new @newphyt.bsky.social paper, "Proximal remote sensing: an essential tool for bridging the gap between high-resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology," led by the amazing Zoe Pierrat w/ the broader #SpecNet community. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...