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Paulo Menezes-Silva

@pmenezes-silva.bsky.social
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Plant physiologist. Interested in water relations of tropical plant species, especially the structural and functional divergence of their hydraulic system

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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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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How do Cerrado species cope with seasonal droughts? 📝New paper out in @JXBot! We show that hydraulic failure can be minimized through plasticity in water loss, rather than through plasticity in water storage capacity or embolism vulnerability.🌳 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
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Hydraulic failure in Cerrado plants is reduced by plasticity in water loss, not water storage or embolism vulnerability
Abstract. Increasingly frequent and intense drought events are challenging the survival of several forest species worldwide. Yet, the extent to which plant
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📢 Ajude a divulgar esta oportunidade! Vaga de pós-doutorado no meu laboratório para investigar como seca, calor e aumento de CO₂ afetam a sobrevivência de plantas do Cerrado em cenários de mudanças climáticas. 🌱 Compartilhe! ifgoiano.edu.br/home/index.p...
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IF Goiano abre seleção para bolsista de pós-doutorado em Biodiversidade e Conservação
Inscrições vão até 25 de junho. Bolsa é destinada a doutores titulados há no máximo cinco anos e integra projeto de pesquisa em rede financiado pela Capes....
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today, we had a wonderful morning with outstanding colleagues from Spain, Colombia, and Brazil discussing science at the 1st IF Goiano Plant Ecophysiology Meeting. We hope future editions will bring together even more researchers and collaborators from around the world
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Camille Ziegler @csziegler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Freshly published paper led by @santiagotrueba.bsky.social on leaf water losses across vascular plants 🌳🔬🧪 The 50-fold variation in gmin across ecological groups was weakly related to phylogeny with evidence for convergent evolution in response to climate 🌡️💦 @newphyt.bsky.social
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Ecological drivers and phylogenetic patterns of leaf minimum conductance variability in vascular plants
Stomatal closure prevents significant water losses during drought events. Yet, leaves are not perfectly hermetic and dehydration ensues through residual water losses, known as minimum conductance (g...
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New paper out!🗞️🎉 How do Cerrado plants cope with drought?🌳💧 In our new study in @annbot.bsky.social, we show how water availability shapes drought-tolerance strategies in Cerrado species across contrasting phytophysiognomies Read the paper: 👇 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
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Water availability shapes drought-tolerance strategies in forest phytophysiognomies in the Brazilian Savanna
AbstractBackground and Aims. Water availability strongly influences plant survival and distribution in the Cerrado, but many species co-occur in contrastin
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Brendan Choat @profchoat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨 New paper out in Journal of Plant Hydraulics! jplanthydro.org/article/view... Our team shows that Optical Dendrometry on small branches produces an incredibly tight linear relationship with water potential (R² ≈ 0.99) during drought‑to‑death drydowns in Eucalyptus crebra.
Plots showing relationship between branch diameter measured with optical dendrometry and stem water potential measured with a psychrometry
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We relaunch our seminar series! Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the ‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’ 24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/
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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Our lab is all dressed up for Halloween!👻🎃🍃🌿
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José M. Torres-Ruiz @torresruizjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Great to see this paper out!📰 Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬 @irnase.bsky.social
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Marylou Mantova @maryloumantova.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social: Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬 Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Starting a new and beautiful project to explore the hydraulic and thermal limits of flowers from orchid species distributed across different Brazilian biomes🌸🌼🌸🌼
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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join us for an exciting ITMN Seminar: “Tiny leaks with deadly consequences” by Paulo Menezes July 24th at 3 pm (CEST). Register here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/
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Bianca Butter Zorger @biancazorger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
My PhD paper is out! We showed that both forest and grassland are vulnerable to drought, but the vulnerability is attributable to different reasons: higher sensitivity to drought in forests (narrower #SM50) and lower fog exposure in grasslands. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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José M. Torres-Ruiz @torresruizjm.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿 👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes! 👨‍🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team. 🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P #PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality
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Louis Santiago @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types I am very happy to see our paper out! Plant responses to many stresses are mediated by the same processes and I have long wondered how this relates to hotter droughts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types
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Janisse Deluigi @janissedeluigi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social
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brodersenlab.bsky.social @brodersenlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our new paper describing a novel method for measuring plant cell turgor is now online at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.
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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My student Lucas (the bark boy) is on his way to solving a leaky radial mystery effect. Stay tuned for upcoming news on bark conductance in Cerrado species!
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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts (Viviane de Araújo Brito Fernandes, Fernanda Santos Farnese, Brenner Ryan Arantes, et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026 @ASPB #PlantScience
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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥 Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄 Extremely proud of my student Viviane! Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/plph...
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Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts
Temperatures above a critical threshold can increase leaf minimum conductance after cooling, evidencing a “thermal leaky legacy effect” that can reduce pla
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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Very happy to see this paper out in Plant, Cell & Environment ! 🥳 We show that: ➡️ Foliar water uptake contribute to leaf water potential recovery in mangroves 🌿💧 ➡️ Tidal dynamic did not affect morning dew uptake 🌳🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Small mangrove species Aegiceris corniculatum flowering
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