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Martin De Kauwe

@mdekauwe.bsky.social
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Professor of Global Change Ecology 🌳🌍 School of the Biological Sciences 🌿 University of Bristol mdekauwe.github.io

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Effective fire governance requires context-specific approaches that align policy with the social-ecological realities of fire. Led by @adamdevenish.bsky.social our new paper comes from years of engagement with practitioners across Madagascar thanks to longer-term DEFRA funding.
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Resolving the fire governance paradox in an increasingly fire-prone world - Communications Earth & Environment
Fire governance must move beyond uniform suppression toward legitimate, adaptive, and context-specific policies aligned with ecological dynamics and local livelihoods, based on evidence from Madagasca...
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
True Olympics, Australia is unbeatable www.bbc.com/sport/olympi...
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River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events
A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lectureship at Bristol 👇. Please share with Bioinformaticians (hoping this is a real word)
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As we think more about climate adaptation…simply scheduling a cricket match should be enough to terminate a drought 🏏
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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🌳🌡️ Our new paper is out! We show that during extreme heat stomatal decoupling occurred in mature holm oak trees; yet, this mechanism provided very little leaf cooling 🍂 academic.oup.com/treephys/adv... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social & many others
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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New work led by Sonali McDermid and me (w/ Ram Singh, Anna Harper, and Danica Lombardozzi) "Twentieth-century North American reforestation as an historical analogue for examining Natural Climate Solutions" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Twentieth-century North American reforestation as an historical analogue for examining Natural Climate Solutions
Twentieth-century North American reforestation as an historical analogue for examining Natural Climate Solutions, McDermid, Sonali Shukla, Cook, Benjamin I., Singh, Ram, Harper, Anna, Lombardozzi, Danica
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Serious now! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scratch of the day: local football season postponed due to ‘rock hard’ pitches
Drought and record heat have forced the Norfolk and Suffolk league to move kick-off to the end of August as the ground is deemed too dangerous to play on
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Straight Outta Tropical Bristol - @juliamadurini.bsky.social's trees are photosynthesising @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Presumably on the day the UK smashed more temperature records, when the kids are not at school … the government and opposition MPs spent all of their parliamentary time discussing how to better prepare the UK for heat extremes….right?
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Dr. Katrin Fleischer @kaaze7.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lucky me. I was able to visit the AmazonFACE site again and witness how ready to go we are! How will the largest tropical forest on Earth respondent to the elevated CO2? What do you think?
Tree trunk in a tropical forest leaning at a metal tower.
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I have 🇺🇸 in the work World Cup sweepstake. Good job I love the manager
Poch managing spurs to a famous victory over Ajax
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#EGU26 ✅ @xueyancheng.bsky.social @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Prediction
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 31/03/2026
Pershore reached 20.9°C this afternoon, matching the temperature recorded in Gogerddan, Dyfed on 18 March and thus making today the joint warmest day of 2026 so far 🌡️
A map of the UK showing Pershore in Worcestershire with a temperature of 20.9°C - the joint highest temperature of 2026 so far
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
update on the experiment my colleague John Harte started almost 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?
A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Soil phosphorus drives subcontinental patterns of carbon-isotope discrimination across Australia Alam et al. @awcheesman.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sampling site locations and transects across Australia included in this study.
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Looming CSIRO job cuts come at 'critical moment' for climate change action
Scientists are calling on the Australian government to push back on a plan to scrap hundreds of jobs at the nation's science agency, as they await the release of further details this week.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Abigail Swann, PhD @ecoclimatelab.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...
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Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The New Phytologist Foundation supports the organisation of symposia by providing dedicated funds and full administrative support including budget management, venue management, delegate registration, abstract submission, and delegates/speaker management.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📢 There are seven days left to submit your proposal for a New Phytologist Symposium! More information: www.newphytologist.org/events/sympo... Send us your proposals by 9 March 2026. #PlantScience
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Call for proposals for New Phytologist Symposia
Call for proposals for New Phytologist Symposia
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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Super cool database compiled by Fabian J. Fischer (Uni Bristol/TUM)!
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Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to global food systems. Our new piece in The Conversation looks at how intense heatwaves put crops and native species at risk — and what we can actually do about it. 🔗 theconversation.com/intense-heat...
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Intense heatwaves directly threaten crops and native species. Here’s what we can do
Sustained extreme heat can damage, weaken and kill all living things, from wheat crops to koalas and fruit bats.
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
JOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol!

Closing date: Sunday 8 MarchJOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more!

Closing date: Sunday 8 March
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Come and join us at Bristol 👇👀
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Aliénor Lavergne @alielave.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s43... see also blog on the paper 👇 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
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Bernhard Schuldt @bernhardschuldt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
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Stellenausschreibung ID 12588
In this project, the Chair of Forest Botany at the Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology offers, subject to the availability of resources, a project position as
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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪 Please repost Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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Careers
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
We want ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Tragic … we want ❄️ ⛄️
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2
Camille S. Delavaux
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️ Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏 #proud #support @natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
Certificate for winning Nature Award for Mentoring in ScienceProfessor Andy Radford with some of his mentees at the University of Bristol
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Close enough to visit us here too 👀
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Regreening & the water cycle agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through Atmospheric Moisture Recycling
Land use/cover changes (LUCC) in China increased ET (+1.71 mm/yr) and precipitation (+1.24 mm/yr) but decreased water availability (WA) (−0.46 mm/yr) LUCC caused the most severe WA reduction in C...
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A childhood hero, gone www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
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Robin Smith, former England cricketer, dies aged 62
Robin Smith, the former England and Hampshire batter who made more than 4,000 Test runs between 1988 and 1996, has died at the age of 62
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Discussing relocating to Australia this morning at breakfast … I floated the idea I would set up a decorating company (Pom paints). We won’t do skirting boards, a niche proposition I grant you, but I’m not painting any more skirting boards after this final coat
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
What a depressing figure www.abc.net.au/news/science...
The graph shows the fall in funding as a percentage of GDP for CSIRO
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops #TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
Reactions, processes, and parameters controlling C4 photosynthetic flux in the NADP-ME subtype.
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Jim Fouracre @jimfouracre.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions. Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :) hydro-jules.org/internationa...
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International Land Modelling Forum (ILMF) | HydroJules
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include: The design of ISIMIP experiments, Harmonization of forcing and land-use data, Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It's #MongooseMonday 🎉 Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves! #fieldwork #social #behaviour
Dwarf mongoose group in South Africa.Habituated wild dwarf mongoose staring into a camera.Habituated wild dwarf mongoose on a balance scale weighing itself.
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