Last month, our research was featured in @nautil.us 🔗 nautil.us/how-plant-ma... A really nice summary of the importance of our #EEO work on improving Land Surface Models. Link to our blog is in the comment below👇

📢New paper in @aobp.bsky.social led by LEMONTREE PhD Student Jan Lankhorst: Nutrient availability increases photosynthetic capacity without altering the cost of resource use for photosynthesis. Check it out👇 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... @eaperkowski.bsky.social et al.

We know how important career development is for our ECRs which is why we love to support secondments. Here is a blog on our latest secondment by PhD student Ananda Kurth: research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/se... #secondment #ECRs #CareerDevelopment @youngryel.bsky.social @stineb.bsky.social

📢Up on the blog this week- a summary of our new paper on environmental and plant trait-based factors controlling allocation of carbon to root:shoot biomass research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/in... @globalchangebio.bsky.social @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social #carbon #plants #biomass

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our blog on how CO2 and climate shaped global vegetation over the past 21,000 years using EEO modelling.👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/ho...

Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Funded by REALM-precursor to LT

❄️Just out : Eco-evolutionary modelling of global vegetation dynamics and the impacts of CO2 during the late Quaternary: insights from contrasting periods. 👀Blog post on Monday! doi.org/10.5194/esd-16…

Updates from our second Energy Partitioning Workshop👇  research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/ener…

🌳 Sugar maples sacrifice nitrogen use efficiency for greater water use efficiency while keeping photosynthesis steady. This field test of least-cost theory has big implications for land carbon models. Blog 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/tr... @eaperkowski.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social

🚨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...

Last week, we held the 2nd meeting for the IMFIREDUP consortium on developing the next generation of fire models. Check out our blog by Sophia Cain for the latest fire updates! 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/imfi…

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…

📢We're hiring! The second position with the #lemontree team at the University of Reading is a PDRA in EEO Carbon Allocation Modelling. Closing date 30th Sept. Details 👇 jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢We're hiring!! We have two positions to join the #lemontree team at Reading University. The first is a PDRA in Functional Biodiversity. Closing date 30th Sept. Details 👇 jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Tomorrow at the #VERSI symposium, LEMONTREE PI Prof Sandy Harrison will be presenting at 4pm UK time (11amET). Don't miss it! register here: schmidtsciences.org/vesri/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

📢New blog by Prof Colin Prentice. Why paleoclimate science matters now- and why ignoring our planet's history is no longer an option. Read more 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/what…#paleoclimatet#climatechangeg#earthhistoryry

📢Check out our blog on why modelling plant nutrient strategies is the key to predicting the land carbon sink. @trevorkeenan.bsky.social @stineb.bsky.social Trevor Cambron. 👉🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/th...

How do plants keep absorbing CO2 as nutrients decline?🌱 A new @nature.com study led by Trevor Cambron (MIT) shows why modelling plant nutrient strategies is key to predicting the land carbon sink. 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02386-y @stineb.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social

Hot off the press! A new paper led Prof Sandy Harrison asks " What can paleoclimate data really teach us about today's climate? 📖https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-112922-110121 Prof Colin Prentice will post a blog on this paper later this week-don't miss it!

📢 Join us on 25th August at Seoul National University for a one-day conference hosted by @youngryel.bsky.social. 🌿 "Next generation land surface model with Eco-Evolutionary Optimality Principles" Showcasing research from the LEMONTREE team. 📍Details in the graphic 👇 Please share 🙏

Check out our latest blog on how declining leaf nitrogen concentrations are not a sign of nutrient limitation, but an adaptive response to rising CO2 🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/leaf-nitrogen-declines-what-european-forests-reveal-about-co%e2%82%82-acclimation-and-ecosystem-resilience/

📢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.

Closing the week #esa2025 for the LEMONTREE team @nickgregsmith.bsky.social presenting a poster on behalf of @alissarcheaib.bsky.social "The power of traits: How population growth rate is shaped by leaf and plant traits across global environmental gradients"Latebreaking Poster Session (5-6.30pm)

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👌🌿

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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.

It's almost time for #esa2025 and we've got @nickgregsmith.bsky.social, @eaperkowski.bsky.social @alissarcheaib.bsky.social and Snehanjana Chatterjee heading there to present their LEMONTREE research. For more info on their talks head over to the blog... research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

Eager to read @ngocnb.bsky.social paper on rain pulses but short on time? ⌛ Check out our blog post for the highlights ☔👉 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/wh... @trevorkeenan.bsky.social @juliakgreen.bsky.social

Check out this new paper led by @ngocnb.bsky.social on the importance of rain pulse events on carbon fluxes in drylands 👇 @trevorkeenan.bsky.social @juliakgreen.bsky.social

On the blog this week: updates from our latest science meeting on how plant traits shape tropical forest recovery and trait coordination across scales. By Yuzhi Zhu & Yongqiang Wang research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/ex...

Sunday 7/27 at 10am PT on Climate Chat: @leonsimons.bsky.social interviews U of Exeter climate scientist Peter Cox on Acceleration of Global Warming and Climate Tipping Points. #GlobalWarming @coxypm.bsky.social @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social youtube.com/live/5rsIoJe...

Come join us for the #ameriflux annual meeting, October 22-24 in Tuscon Arizona. Budgets might be tight, but community support is invaluable, and that's what this year's meeting is all about. Abstracts are due next week. Check out the details here: ameriflux.lbl.gov/community/am...

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,

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.

Check out our new blog on how EEO theory predicts how plant functional traits vary with wet and dry environments by @h-zhang.bsky.social research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/te... @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @minxue-tang.bsky.social

Today! Don't miss our New Phytologist Now webinar on communicating your science to different audiences, with New Phytologist Editors @colleeniversen.bsky.social and Rich Norby. Register to attend - it's free! ⌚ 14:30–15:30 BST (UTC+1) 📅 TODAY us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #PlantScience

On the blog for this week: @xiangzluo.bsky.social New paper on the use of eddy covariance data to infer global patterns of vegetation Carbon Use Efficiency research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/us... @ngocnb.bsky.social @trevorkeenan.bsky.social

New on the blog: How Rossby Wave-7 patterns drive declines in plant productivity under extreme conditions. @jiangong-liu.bsky.social @pierregentine.bsky.social, Xu Lian @https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/ecological-impact-of-rossby-wave-7-events/

🌿New on the blog: A new study led by Astrid Ode shows how leaves adjust traits like stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity across different timescales. Karin Rebel & Hugo de Boer @nickgregsmith.bsky.social 🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/leaf-trait-plasticity/

We are at @esa.int #LPS25 in Vienna! Tomorrow am, in session A.02.08, Sandy Harrison presents 'An Eco-Evolutionary Optimality approach to modelling wildfires'-work led by Olivia Haas. 📄abstract here :https://lps25.esa.int/programme/programme-session/?id=DA2FAA8E-F044-47F9-A98B-134136D13F30

📢Kicking off the week with a short blog on @nickgregsmith.bsky.social's recent talk at the #gordonresearchconference on CO2 assimilation. Nick shared how EEO helps us model photosynthesis under changing climates. 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

🌍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 latest findings in @nature Geoscience We found that Rossby waves cause synchronized GPP declines in high-pressure regions. Even more concerning: when hot-dry conditions hit extreme levels, there are non-linear GPP reductions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💧🌿How does soil moisture shape the land carbon sink? Catch up on highlights from our latest science seminar for new research on plant water stress, ET and GPP under drought conditions. #soilmoisture #evapotranspiration #carboncycle @stineb.bsky.social ➡️🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...

Check out our latest blog by LEMONTREE post-doc Cai Wenjia on the recent @esa.int EEBIOMASS workshop on how satellite and remote sensing techniques could enhance observations of the global carbon cycle in the context of climate change. research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/ne...

🌲Out today in Science! We show that thermal acclimation of stem respiration could significantly reduce future forest carbon losses under climate change. 🔗https://research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/thermal-acclimation-of-stem-respiration-weakens-the-carbon-climate-feedback/

🌍 The LEMONTREE team had a great week @egu.eu in Vienna. It was great to discuss our work on EEO theory, reconnect with old colleagues and make new connections. 📖 Read the highlights: research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... #LEMONTREE #ClimateScience #EGU2025 #EEOtheory