Members of the LEMONTREE team are heading to the Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference in Baltimore to present new research on vegetation dynamics, climate extremes, and carbon cycle modellin...

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It has been 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis, an event that rewrote our understanding of plant adaptation, ecosystem responses to global change, and global food security. Despite six...

Discover how nitrogen shapes plant responses to elevated CO₂ in this new study using eco-evolutionary optimality theory. Learn how nitrogen demand regulates leaf-level photosynthesis, while nitrogen a...

Natural selection favors growth by selecting a combination of plant traits that maximize photosynthetic CO2 assimilation at the lowest combined carbon costs of resource acquisition and use. We quant...

Natural selection favors growth by selecting a combination of plant traits that maximize photosynthetic CO2 assimilation at the lowest combined carbon costs of resource acquisition and use. We quant...

A recent publication in Ecology Letters published as part of the LEMONTREE project investigates the dynamics of nitrogen allocation.

Accurately predicting carbon–nitrogen cycle coupling in Earth System Models (ESMs) requires understanding the drivers of leaf nitrogen response to soil nutrient supply. We found that leaf nitrogen de...

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Accurately predicting carbon–nitrogen cycle coupling in Earth System Models (ESMs) requires understanding the drivers of leaf nitrogen response to soil nutrient supply. We found that leaf nitrogen de...

Affecting biodiversity, plants with larger genome sizes (GS) may be restricted in nutrient-poor conditions. This pattern has been attributed to their greater cellular nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)...