🚨New paper alert! 🚨 “Increasing nitrogen availability increases water use efficiency and decreases nitrogen use efficiency in Acer saccharum” is now in press at Tree Physiology! @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social academic.oup.com/treephys/adv...

Our annual meeting hosted this year by @youngryel.bsky.social at Seoul National University, brought together our international team to share research updates, plan our next steps and train our ECRs in remote sensing. A very successful week. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/annu…

At 5pm today at #esa2025, @alissarcheaib.bsky.social will present her poster: 'The satisfaction of leaf nitrogen demand under drought is modulated by soil nitrogen availability and drought severity". This research highlights that water-nutrient interactions must be jointly considered in models.

This pm at #esa2025, @snehanjanac.bsky.social will present her work: "The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant resource use economics" in session COS-Mycorrhizae 2 (3.30-5pm). This work examins how AMF affect plant resource use strategies under different water & nutrient regimes👌🌿

Thursday, August 14: I will present a poster titled "The power of traits: How population growth rate is shaped by leaf and plant traits across global environmental gradients" in LB 18-239 at 17:00 in the Exhibit Hall (poster)

Wednesday, August 13: @alissarcheaib.bsky.social will present "The satisfaction of leaf nitrogen demand under drought is modulated by soil nitrogen availability and drought severity" in PS 29-039 at 17:00 in the Exhibit Hall (poster)

Wednesday, August 13: @snehanjanac.bsky.social will present "The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant resource use economics" in COS 122-02 in BCC 339

Come check out my talk this afternoon where I’ll try to make sense of N and P effects on leaf and whole plant traits! Starts at 14:00 in BCC 349. See ya there!

Today at #esa2025: @eaperkowski.bsky.social is presenting his talk: "Global response patterns of plant functional traits to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition are driven by additive individual effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition" Session: COS – Physiological Ecology 1. 1.30-3pm.

The PhUnFETTy lab will have four presentations at #ESA2025. These will cover plant ecophysiology, trait ecology, eutrophication, water availability, mycorrhizae, demography, theory, modeling, and more! Check out the flyer and replies below for more details. Hope to see you in Baltimore!

See you all at #ESA2025! Finally got a Monday afternoon talk slot 😁

The lab has new 2025 pubs on topics including: - CO2 acclimation - C4 trait spectra - Stem respiration - Phosphorus allocation - Predicting plant communities - Acclimation timescales (full links in replies) Check out more in a blog on the lab website here! www.smithecophyslab.com/news#mid2025...

We have a new paper out from our Powell Center C4 working group: "C4 photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast-efficient phenotype" The @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review led by Russ Monson explores what we know about the C4 trait spectra nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌿 New research by @giulimeng.bsky.social reveals how plants in arid climates adjust carbon uptake as soil moisture declines. A new empirical function improves predictions of water stress impacts on ecosystems & models!🔗Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @globalchangebio.bsky.social

Check out this blog post summarizing our recent paper on leaf and whole plant responses to elevated CO2!

Check out our new paper! 2025 has already been quite the productive year for the lab!

Very excited to share that our (Zinny Ezekannagha and @nickgregsmith.bsky.social) new paper, "Nitrogen demand, availability, and acquisition strategy control plant responses to elevated CO2", is now in press at @jxbotany.bsky.social Link: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... (1/6)

To find out why leaf nitrogen demands matter, check out our latest blog! research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/th... @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social @eaperkowski.bsky.social

Really excited to see this out! We show that the responsiveness of leaf #nitrogen to soil nitrogen #fertilization is highest where leaf nitrogen demand is greatest. We put together a short blog on the paper here: www.smithecophyslab.com/news.html#ch... A quick synopsis also in the thread below...

Omg um… hi everyone?? I log into BlueSky for the first time in a few months and follower list has kind of gone off the charts? Guess I should probably post a bit more frequently then, huh?

Interested in how and where trees move water? I'm hiring a plant ecophys postdoc to study hydraulic redistribution in Indiana forests. If you'll be at AGU and want to discuss, please reach out! jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/postdoc...

🌱 New article in @aobp.bsky.social on Glycine max and Bradyrhizobium japonicum revealing how symbiosis reduces carbon costs and boosts growth when soil nitrogen is low. Full #openaccess 👉 https://buff.ly/3TUh3W5 @eaperkowski.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social #PlantScience

Woo, final week or two of A/Ci curves until field season comes to a close! Excited to see what these data show about garlic mustard impacts on native plant carbon budgets.

(Sleepy) Doge and I are Pittsburgh bound! En route to four months of collecting gas exchange data to quantify carbon budgets of native flora growing in a manipulative garlic mustard removal experiment!

To Read Pile! “The Dynamic Assimilation Technique measures photosynthetic CO2 response curves with similar fidelity as steady-state approaches in half the time” t.co/5QwPwIT59N

Some other handy rules: If you can't review, reply ASAP, so the process can move on rather than throw the enail into the well of oblivion. Suggest someone else, perhaps a junior scientist in your group. #AcademicSky

🧪🌏🌾 New paper out! We show more realistic photosynthesis models predict higher CO2 uptake going into the future: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 5th National Climate Assessment #NCA5 was released today. It's really well done and absolutely worth checking out for the most up-to-date insights on climate change impacts, risks, and responses in the US. nca2023.globalchange.gov

Photo essay "Peak Botany" by Justin Rex on work led by Dr. Matt Johnson investigating changes in the flora of Guadalupe Mtns National park since the 1970s. The Schwilk lab and Nick Smith's lab have helped with this as well. texastechuniversity.exposure.co/peak-botanyn...

Let's get some plant ecophys introductions going on to connect everyone that is new. I'm a physiologist that loves the plant vascular system (especially the phloem) and anything phenology. I saw @wmhammond.bsky.social join recently. Want to introduce yourself?

Howdy, all! I’ve been a fly on the wall on here but I figure an intro is in order! I’m Evan (he/him), a postdoc at Texas Tech studying plant ecophys and microbial ecology. Research mostly focuses on the role of nutrient acquisition strategy in modifying plant acclimation responses to global change