🌱Do leaves and roots follow the same strategy? New research led by Yuzhi Zhu in Ecology Letters shows that leaf and fine root traits in subtropical forest plants are largely decoupled, with independent above- and below-ground resource strategies. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My former colleague Min Chen, now at @uwmadison.bsky.social , has a great "Proposal Coauthor Tool" uw-gcrl.github.io/coauthor_tool/

#LEMONTREE @egu.eu Back L-R: Ruijie Ding, Sandy Harrison, Colin Prentice, Haoran Liu, David Sandoval, @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, Jaideep Joshi, Ning Dong. Front L-R: @giulimeng.bsky.social, Jierong Zhao, Sophia Cain, Mendgi Gao & @nickgregsmith.bsky.social. ©Franz Pfluegl #EGU26, www.fotograf.at.

Two final LEMONTREE talks this afternoon at #EGU26 🌿 📍Room 2.95 🗣️ Helin Zhang – multi-tracer constraints on photosynthesis 🗣️Giulia Mengoli– predicting net ecosystem exchange using eco-evolutionary optimality research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... @giulimeng.bsky.social #EGU #EarthScience

This afternoon, head to room N1 for PhD student Sophia Cain's talk on: Annual litter fuel load estimation from optimality-derived litterfall and decomposition dynamics.https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ #egu2026

If you are at #EGU2026, join us today for a fantastic line-up of talks and posters from the team🌱 📍BG1.11 (Orals): Room 1.85/86 📍BG3.3 (Orals): Room 1.15/16 📍Posters: Hall X1 Details🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/lemontree-at-egu-2026/ @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @giulimeng.bsky.social

It's almost time for #egu2026. We've got 17 members of the #lemontree team heading to Vienna to share their research. Check out the blog for all the details👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... #egu #vienna

🌽📢Just out in @plantecophys.bsky.social : "Experimental Evidence for Coordinated Leaf Trait Responses to Elevated CO2 in Five Common Crop Species" led by LEMONTREE PhD student Astrid Ode. Check it out👇 www.sciltp.com/journals/Pla...

🌱One to check out- our latest blog for our research on how EEO explains the acclimated temperature response of photosynthesis! research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/th...

Optimality explains shifts in photosynthetic temperature optima Gan et al. @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why does the optimal temperature of photosynthesis shift with growth temperature and what mechanisms explain this acclimation? Find out in our new paper in @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We believe that climate science serves America — and the world. That's why we're investing in climate solutions and science, including an innovative fellowship program for early- to mid-career Ph.D. scientists & engineers working on the forefront of climate solutions. drawdown.org/insights/cli...

Aridity and drought - distinct concepts too often conflated Knapp et al. @aknapp.bsky.social @rjgriffin-nolan.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation 23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social , @newphyt.bsky.social, @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, @westsyduhie.bsky.social and others! 🧪🌱 registration.lancaster.ac.uk/C460

🚨Two fully funded PhD opportunities in Australia! Improving C4 photosynthesis in vegetation models. Supervised by Dani Way (ANU, Canberra) and myself (UTS, Sydney). 1. Lab- and field-based project at ANU – see flyer below 2. Modelling project at UTS – www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Updates from our recent LEMONTREE Science Meeting: new results across the three major components of whole-plant respiration: leaves, stems, and fine roots, alongside emerging insights into biomass production efficiency. research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/pl...

Apply Today to be a student at the UMich Biological Station! All majors welcome. Scholarships galore. 6 credits in 4 weeks Spring and Summer Courses: myumi.ch/qZ12Q Undergraduate Research Fellowships: myumi.ch/Z2E9q

Two PhD opportunities at the Australian National University and the University of Technology Sydney, working on thermal responses and thermal acclimation of C4 photosynthesis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Warming decouples above- and belowground interactions! news.umich.edu/long-term-wa...

roses are red violets are blue anthocyanin! (betalain, too)

roses are red violets are blue both make sugars from atmospheric CO2 🌹🌹🌹

🔥Out today in @nature.com Communications, Olivia Haas, Colin Prentice & Sandy Harrison explore how conflicting fire signals might evolve over the coming century & why focusing on burned area alone risks missing critical changes in wildfire behaviour. Blog Monday 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecologists! Plz share! **ESA abstracts due Feb 19th this year - meeting is last week in July in Salt Lake City** This is a change from our normal first week in August bc this is rescheduled from COVID cancelled 2020 meeting. We're hard at work to prepare a great meeting for you.

Following on from yesterday, here's our latest blog on the paper by @huiyingxu.bsky.social & Wang Han et al.,👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/sa... Go check it out!

New paper alert🔔My last PhD chapter is published📣 Our new study explains how the ratio of sapwood to leaf area🌿varies with hydraulic traits and climate on a global scale. Our theoretical model can capture almost 60% of trait variation. Stay tuned! Blog is on the way

📢New paper published today in @newphyt.bsky.social We develop an EEO framework to explain global variation in the sapwood-to-leaf area ratio, linking plant hydraulics, photosynthesis and climate. Blog coming soon.🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @huiyingxu.bsky.social

Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles Xu et al. @huiyingxu.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QQQWKU...

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

Ever felt like your data is too big or complex to model easily? 🎚️Level up your R skills with *Intro to Sparse Modeling in R*! Expand your knowledge of analyzing datasets with many covariates & overcome some traditional statistical challenges. Feb. 4 at 3:00 PM ET! https://ow.ly/bj7O50XU6M1

🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change. www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...

Last month we held an event called "Inside #COP30: Science, solutions, and the Texas Tech perspective" If you are interested, the recording is up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtn_...

The deadline for DOE's SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) summer 2026 program is in TWO DAYS: science.osti.gov/wdts/suli/Ke... Are you an undergraduate interested in STEM? Apply!

End-of-year data update to the SRBD (global soil respiration database) github.com/bpbond/srdb

I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

First AGU was successful! #AMF #AGU25 #NewOrleans #PlantEcophys Thanks to @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @texastechlib.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Friends, I am quite suddenly and with no warning teaching an upper level ecology class in three weeks. If anyone has any ecology lab materials they are willing to share with me, please reach out.

For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR 12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center 1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign. More info:

Tomorrow is the final day for LEMONTREE at #AGU25. We are ending up our week with a poster from @snehanjanac.bsky.social on Friday morning in the poster hall! It's been a great week.

I wrote to my representatives @hirono.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social, and Ed Case to tell them to stop the dismantlement of NCAR. You can do the same with your representatives at this link.

📢Just out today: "The Global Hydrogen Budget" published in @nature.com . LEMONTREE contributions from Catherine Morfopoulos and David Sandoval www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NCAR’s Mesa Lab is literally a science castle dedicated to understanding our planet in an open and collaborative way, and leading the world in that effort. We cannot let this happen.

NCAR is an amazing place full of wonderful, brilliant, hardworking people. I am forever indebted to what they've done for me and the world. Heart-wrenching to hear the news, particularly during AGU :(

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

At #AGU25 this afternoon, I have a poster on a fun, new project: "Global patterns of optimal photosynthetic strategies" (B23R-1986; 14:15-17:45) I could use some input from the community on this! Come chat with me about "why photosynthesis be like that"! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

Day 2 of #AGU25 and another great line up today with 3 LEMONTREE talks and a poster. @jianingfang.bsky.social ang.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social gsmith.bsky.social @ngocnb.bsky.social y.social @HanZhang-Hannah.bsky.social research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

Hey #AGU25, check out our session "Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function" happening soon! It starts in ~35 minutes at 14:15 in Room 260. We have a bunch of great talks lined up! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

If you’re at #AGU25, come by our Town Hall tomorrow at 1PM in 243-244. After the National Climate Assessment was disbanded, a bunch of us got to work to advance climate assessment. We’re the editors of a new U.S. climate assessment collection, & need your help: eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #AGU25

It's #AGU2025! Great line up today from the team with invited talk by @youngryel.bsky.social and sessions with @nickgregsmith.bsky.social and @trevorkeenan.bsky.social . Head over to the blog to get room details: research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...