The lab has two great oral presentations coming up at the AGU fall meeting next week in San Francisco – please check them out if you are attending! Luiza Aparecido Abstract ID: 620924 Abstract Title: Do tropical and desert plant leaves trade carbon gain against non-lethal temperature maintenance? Final Paper Number: B31D-07 Presentation Type: Oral…

Miguel Duarte is a lab student who has worked with us for almost as long as we have been at Arizona State University. He is in the process of writing up his undergraduate thesis on herbivory impacts on leaf functioning, and has worked with us in the laboratory and also out in the desert. He…

(a guest post by first author Dr. Lars Iversen) Plant growth is often a pivotal aspect of community change, biogeography, and ecosystem functions supported by plant communities. Thus, understanding limiting factors in plant growth is useful if we want to infer causality between the environment and species distributions or predict responses to future environmental change.…

Our lab took a trip to see the Grand Canyon before we move to California. Here are a few photos from the trip!