Post-doc position available: Modelling dynamics of Australian vegetation. Two year position at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney U careers.westernsydney.edu.au/job/postdoct...

Post-doc position available: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australian ecosystems. Two year position at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney U @nsw-bnhrc.bsky.social careers.westernsydney.edu.au/job/research...

PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

Call for abstracts for the upcoming conference of the Ecological Society of Australia Symposia on Global #Warming Alters Spring Leaf #Phenology and Tree #Drought #Resilience in Brisbane, 29 November – 4 December 2026. Submit by 29 June 2026. Submissions link: nectarcc.eventsair.com/Presentation...

Interactive effects of stand age and seasonal #litter and #soil #nutrient dynamics on #rhizosphere #microbial C and N use efficiency in Pinus massoniana plantations besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Impact of summer #defoliation and winter-spring #warming on pre-spring #carbon availability and spring #phenology in sessile oak and Scots pine saplings doi.org/10.1093/tree...

NEW ARTICLE IN PRESS @forestecosyst.bsky.social 📰Spatial variation in non-structural carbohydrates reserves of pine species along climatic gradients: A global synthesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌳 New Tansley Insight! What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔 I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

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

Excited to share our latest publication: Trees use exogenous sugars for growth, but excess triggers negative feedback reducing photosynthetic carbon gain. Many thanks to my supervisors Mai-He Li and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and many collaborators doi.org/10.1093/tree...

Years of drought turn forest into source of CO₂ - Press release on our research with @simonhaber.bsky.social and @chriswernerlab.bsky.social at @icos-ri.eu site DE-Har, showing tree mortality following droughts has fundamentally shifted forest structure & functioning uni-freiburg.de/en/years-of-...

Warming accelerates global drought severity - Nature

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃 Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v @newphyt.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

Our latest study (submitted to JXB) is now available as a preprint. We emphasise the importance of directly measuring the CO2 flux of whole plants.🧵

Excited to share our new paper in @newphyt.bsky.social on how exogenous #sugar #infusion alleviate or exacerbate #root #carbon #limitation in different species. Many thanks to my supervisors Mai-He Li and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and coauthors. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Carbon allocation in #bamboo forests: #Drought can alter the allocation of newly assimilated C within the tissues of source ramets but does not affect C allocation among interconnected ramets or within the plant–soil system. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FrauenInderWissenschaft #FrauenInMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality - @newphyt.bsky.social ; @treemortality.bsky.social : https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20407

🧪🌲 Norway spruce trees can "learn" from drought! #Trees exposed to experimental #drought developed better resilience to natural drought later on. Important finding for #forest management in a changing #climate! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00468-024-02595-6

🌲 Trees have long memories! Our study shows Scots pine trees remember past water abundance even 7 years after irrigation stops! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Published in @newphyt.bsky.social: Our new paper highlights the significant role of ecological memory and legacy effects in determining tree responses to environmental changes https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20245

Nitrogen availability in soil controls uptake of different nitrogen forms by plants https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20335?saml_referrer=

Nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentrations can reflect the strategies described in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) due to their dependence on photosynthesis and respiration https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20315?saml_referrer