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From a single leaf to a sea of green: The predictive power of leaves for forest ecology
ASU Now just featured our lab’s work in a very nice piece written by Joe Caspermeyer and photographed by Deanna Dent (all images here credit to them). Check out the piece to learn more about our new NSF Rules of Life grant! Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Luiza Aparecido in the lab… Undergraduate students Sabrina Woo and…
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Lab presentation at AGU: Evaporative Cooling Enables Desert Plants to Maintain Photosynthesis in Extreme Heat
Lab postdoc Dr. Luiza Aparecido will presenting our lab’s work on plant water use strategies at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Washington, DC next week. If you are attending, come check out the great work she is leading up! Abstract ID and Title: 426630: Evaporative Cooling Enables Desert Plants to Maintain Photosynthesis in…
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New publication: Empirical Predictability of Community Responses to Climate Change
We have a new paper out this week on the prevalence of alternate states in community dynamics. The study is led by lab postdocs Pierre Gaüzère and Lars Iversen. The main question was: how predictable is the composition of a community when the environment changes? A classic idea, common in nearly all forecasting applications, is…
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Coping with the heat – celebrating undergraduate research
We had our first undergraduate student research presentations in our lab meeting this week. Three of our students shared their summer work under the mentorship of postdoc Dr. Luiza Aparecido – it was wonderful to see how much they have progressed in a few short months. The summer’s projects have all focused on the ecophysiology…