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Nick Smith

@nickgregsmith.bsky.social
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Plant ecophysiologist. PI of PhUnKy Lab. Plants, ecosystems, global change. he/him. www.smithecophyslab.com

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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 17h
I am also looking for new graduate students and will have a postdoc ad out soon. Ping me if you are interested in any of these positions! #botany #ecophysiology #ecosystems #globalchange
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 18h
I am hiring a full-time lab technician for my new lab at UNL. The full position description can be found at: employment.unl.edu/postings/102... The position is for 1 year, with renewal possible for up to 2 additional years. Pay is $23.50/hour. Please share!
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Research Technician-Plant Ecophysiology (Temporary)
The Lab of Dr. Nick Smith in the School of Biological Sciences at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is seeking a Temporary Research Technician. The lab examines the responses of plants and ecosyste...
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Lizz Waring @lizzwaring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hi all, I am trying to raise funds to support the field-based courses I teach so we can keep the cost of these trips as low as possible for the students. If you would like to support the next generation of field scientists consider donating to the NSU Foundation. It is tax deductible.
Photo of students electrofishing in a creekPhoto of students walking into a stand of rivercaneStudents around the campfireLarge group of students on the Buffalo River
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 25/09/2026
This week, we published the first paper in the U.S. Climate Collection titled, "Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States". The paper was led by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, & me, with 175 authors helping outline climate risks. cee.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2026/09...
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CMU faculty helps lead new efforts on climate assessment research
CMU faculty helps lead new efforts on climate assessment research - Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A good reminder "Data science" isn't Science..."Without models, mathematical or conceptual, data are just noise...science advances only if it can provide explanations...there is an area where petabytes of information can be used...But don't call it science" link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌐
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The end of theory in science? - EMBO Reports
EMBO Reports -
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Deepti Singh @climatechirper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible leadership by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net and @costasamaras.com on this article underscoring the value of climate assessments in informing decision-making for individuals, communities, businesses, and governments and providing key research priorities to assess climate risks and actions.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23/09/2026
Here's some of the coverage of the paper: www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
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Climate scientists fired by Trump step in to fill U.S. report gap
The future of national climate assessments remains murky after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23/09/2026
There's lots of reasons for despair, but here's a small bit of light: it's not hard to make change when you work together. 175 climate researchers volunteered time to ensure communities are informed about climate risks. Led by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, & me, free to read: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm extremely proud to have been a part of this team, and I'm grateful for the truly dauntless leadership of @costasamaras.com, Melissa Kenney, and @bobkopp.net, who brought us together to put together both a state of the scholarship, and a benchmark for future integrated climate assessments.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read our paper! I was honored to contribute to this effort, which had particle-accelerator levels of coordination across nearly 200 coauthors. Thanks to Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, and @costasamaras.com for their leadership.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honored to be part of this work, with huge thanks to @bobkopp.net, @costasamaras.com and Melissa Kenney for their leadership. One day, there will again be a rigorous, collaborative National Climate Assessment - this effort could help inform it, and in the meantime serve assessments at other scales.
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was a pleasure to be able to help with athecommentary "Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States" out today in @agu.org Earth's Future (led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com, @bobkopp.net) agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 22/09/2026
Communities can't wait for the next National Climate Assessment to understand their climate risk. With leadership by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net & I were lucky to work with 175 climate researchers to outline assessment priorities that folks can work on now: headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/09/22/f...
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First Paper Published in the U.S. Climate Collection
The U.S. Climate Collection has published its first paper, with 175 authors outlining research priorities for future U.S.-focused climate assessments.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026
NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵
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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States
A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Data Scientist job - Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), data-management, computational, and bioinformatics assignments supporting research in tropical biology, ecology, and forestry. #ecologyjobs 🧪🌐🌾 trustcareers.si.edu/postings/8a2...
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Data Scientist (Bioinformatics), IS- 1560- 11
Job Opening: Data Scientist (Bioinformatics), IS- 1560- 11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Call for plant ecophysiologists! Do you have Fv/Fm or F0-rise data? Do you know someone who might? @seanmichaletz.bsky.social and @nicolebison.bsky.social would love to hear from you. (Bonus if your data are from Asia or Africa.) Please share widely! #ecology #botany #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance
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Help us identify drivers of global variation in PSII heat tolerance kinetics. Seeking collaborators and data in Fv/Fm temperature response curves at multiple heat duration and F0-rise curves. Email Nicole dot Bison at ubc dot ca or Sean dot Michaletz at ubc dot ca. Map of sites contributed shows points in North and South America, Europe, and Australia but not Asia or Africa (or Antartica, on the very slim chance someone has data from there).
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New commentary by me and PhD student Monika Kelley: "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves" in @jxbotany.bsky.social . The new tool should make it easier to extract interesting parameters from C4 plants that make them easier to understand and model academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...
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A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves
This article comments on:Woodford R, Ermakova M, Furbank RT, von Caemmerer S. 2026. Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide and irradiance response curves fo
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New lab paper "Sensitization rather than acclimation to chronic atmospheric aridity in invasive and native dryland C4 grasses" in @jxbotany.bsky.social Former MS Rafael Frietas assessed plasticity of invasive buffelgrass versus native grasses academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Sensitization rather than acclimation to chronic atmospheric aridity in invasive and native dryland C4 grasses
Abstract. Despite extreme heat and limited water availability, invasive plant species are rapidly expanding in arid ecosystems, threatening native biodiver
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🌱☀️ INSIGHT ☀️🌱 "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves". Smith & Kelley discuss recent findings published in JXB by Woodford et al. 📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Overview of input (left panels; light green background) and output (right panels; dark green background) windows of the Excel tool developed by Woodford et al. (2026) for CO2 response curves. (A) Users first define measurement conditions, including leaf temperature (Tleaf), atmospheric pressure (Patm), irradiance, atmospheric O2 concentration, and the fraction of PSII active in the bundle sheath. (B) Users then input measured values of the CO2 assimilation rate (A) and intercellular CO2 (Ci) values obtained from gas exchange measurements. (C) The tool generates a plot of the measured A and Ci values (black squares). Overlaid on top of this are the estimated carboxylation rate-limited photosynthetic values (orange circles) and electron transport rate-limited photosynthetic values (red circles) at each measured Ci value. These numbers are also provided in a table (table not shown).
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
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Carla Staver @carlastaver.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Think C4 photosynthesis doesn’t really respond to increasing CO2? Think again! With @kimsimp.bsky.social @colinplants.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Increasing CO2 levels fertilize C4 grass production - Nature
By combining a meta-analysis of CO2 enrichment experiments with three decades of southern African savanna observations, an increase in biomass production by C4 grasses under rising CO2 levels in ...
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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📢 We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Ecophysiology at EPFL/WSL in Lausanne! 🌿 Study physiological mechanisms of leaf browning under heat & drought stress 🔬 Experimental plant ecophysiology 🎓 Mentoring/teaching opportunities Please share! Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1893/...
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today is my first day as Davison & Fuller Chair in Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln! I will be looking for graduate students, a postdoc, and a lab manager to join me at UNL (ads coming). Please reach out if interested!
University of Nebraska - Lincoln block "N" logoPhysiology for Understanding and Knowledge in ecologY (PhUnKY) Lab logo
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Deena Varner @deena-varner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thanks to The Higher Ed Advocate for giving us a space to talk about what's happening.
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com
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EEB Mentor Match
Visit the post for more.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/07/2026
Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.
apply-sfi.smapply.org
Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship - Santa Fe Institute
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Evan Perkowski @eaperkowski.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Howdy #ESA2026 folks! Hit the hay early and check out tomorrow morning’s 8AM aboveground-belowground interactions session in Room 250D. I’ll be talking about mechanisms driving AM fungal-mediated impacts of garlic mustard on native plant physiology at 9AM. See you there!
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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵
Funding and job board curated by Dieter Lukas and Pro Manna
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Trying to finish up my #ESA2026 talk. Here's the current version of the last slide for anyone interested. Talk is Thursday at 8:30 in 255A.
Slide reading "There are many ways plants can optimize photosynthesis and we can now quantitatively predict those strategies"
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The PhUnFETTy Lab will have a large showing at this week's #ESA2026. Come check out the cool work we've been doing!
A list of PhUnFETTy Lab presentations at #ESA2026
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Greg Goldsmith @canopyinclouds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Careers on the tenure track on Weds. 1:30PM at @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social in Career Central w/ Julia Bigwood (moderator), Jessica Gurevitch, @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social, Matt McCary and me. Promises to be good opportunity to learn with one another! Come check it out.
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Deena Varner @deena-varner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is the academic freedom jurisprudence we've been waiting 100 years for law.justia.com/cases/federa...
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Pernell v. Commissioner of the FL State Board of Education, No. 23-10616 (11th Cir. 2026)
Florida enacted a law prohibiting public university professors from endorsing or promoting certain ideas related to race, color, sex, and national origin in classroom instruction. The law, known as th...
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Evan Perkowski @eaperkowski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 Article alert! 🚨 Happy to share that our new paper, titled "The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure" is now available at @funecology.bsky.social! Link (Open Access): besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The negative effects of an allelopathic invader on native plant photosynthesis are amplified after tree canopy closure
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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in silico Plants @insilicoplants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🌿Are you teaching or learning plant modeling? Discover our latest article type: Methods for Plant Modeling articles describe software, tools, models, and other resources in an accessible way, making them suitable for educational use. 📰 See the collection at buff.ly/P1GV8q6
Learn how to use plant models!
Methods for Plant Modelling
Every article contains an introduction to the model, essential equations, and instructions
EXPLORE THE COLLECTION! - in silico plants
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾
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BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We're running our Vegetation Canopies session again this year at #AGU26. If you're a Botanist working at any scale using any methodology, please consider submitting an abstract to the session! If you have questions, feel free to reach out. Hope to see you in SF! agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
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Vegetation Canopies: Physiology, Structure, Function
Vegetation canopy structure and function determine global rates of photosynthesis and transpiration and, thus, heavily influence the global carbon, water, and energy cycles. Key unknowns remain regard...
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Steve Pacala and Rob Socolow definitely have some questions to address, and the reporting is fantastic and disturbing. But there are substantial complexities that need to be explored as well. revkin.substack.com/p/a-new-look...
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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!
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🌱New blog by Yuzhi Zhu, Cai Wenjia, Ruijie Ding + @nickgregsmith.bsky.social on new approaches to help us understand how carbon is allocated across scales, from leaves and roots to whole ecosystems, bringing together theory, experiments and modelling. research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/un...
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Understanding Carbon Allocation Across Scales: Highlights from the LEMONTREE Science Meeting - Lemontree
Highlights from the latest LEMONTREE science meeting exploring carbon allocation across scales, from roots and leaves to forests
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🎉Congrats to @stineb.bsky.social et al whose @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review on C + N cycles has been recognised as one of the Top 10 most viewed papers of 2024! Check out our blog on why it resonated, and how we continue to build on this work 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le...
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LEMONTREE in the Tansley Review’s Top 10 Most Viewed: Reflecting on Our Carbon–Nitrogen Synthesis - Lemontree
LEMONTREE recognised as one of the top 10 most viewed papers published in New Phytologist in 2024 for our review paper: Empirical evidence and theoretical understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitroge...
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If photosynthetic efficiency changes with temperature and climate, then our predictions of ecosystem productivity and future carbon uptake may need updating. We break down the science behind the paper in our latest blog 👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/en... @victorflo.bsky.social
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Environmental Controls on Photosynthetic Efficiency: New Insights from Global Ecosystem Data - Lemontree
New LEMONTREE research reveals that photosynthetic quantum efficiency is not fixed but varies predictably with temperature and climate, offering new insights for improving ecosystem and climate models...
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🌿New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social led by David Sandoval showing the max quantum yield of terrestrial photosynthesis is not fixed. It follows a universal bell-shaped response to temperature that varies with climate adaptation. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @victorflo.bsky.social
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Environmental influences on the maximum quantum yield of terrestrial primary production
Temperature and aridity effects on terrestrial ecosystems' intrinsic quantum yield.
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🌱Do leaves and roots follow the same strategy? New research led by Yuzhi Zhu in Ecology Letters shows that leaf and fine root traits in subtropical forest plants are largely decoupled, with independent above- and below-ground resource strategies. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Non‐Correlated Variation of Leaf and Fine Root Traits in Subtropical Forest Plants
Using coupled above- and below-ground trait sampling on individuals of co-existing species, we quantified relationships between 18 leaf and fine root traits in two environmentally contrasting subtrop...
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My former colleague Min Chen, now at @uwmadison.bsky.social , has a great "Proposal Coauthor Tool" uw-gcrl.github.io/coauthor_tool/
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Proposal Coauthor Tool
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#LEMONTREE @egu.eu Back L-R: Ruijie Ding, Sandy Harrison, Colin Prentice, Haoran Liu, David Sandoval, @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, Jaideep Joshi, Ning Dong. Front L-R: @giulimeng.bsky.social, Jierong Zhao, Sophia Cain, Mendgi Gao & @nickgregsmith.bsky.social. ©Franz Pfluegl #EGU26, www.fotograf.at.
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Two final LEMONTREE talks this afternoon at #EGU26 🌿 📍Room 2.95 🗣️ Helin Zhang – multi-tracer constraints on photosynthesis 🗣️Giulia Mengoli– predicting net ecosystem exchange using eco-evolutionary optimality research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/le... @giulimeng.bsky.social #EGU #EarthScience
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LEMONTREE AT EGU 2026 - Lemontree
Attending the 2026 EGU conference we have three PIs, four PDRAs, four PhD students, and six collaborators. Here’s we share what's happening throughout the week
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