What is the impact of logging on the physical environment in tropical forests? We just had a new study come out addressing this topic, as part of the Biodiversity and Land Use Impacts (BALI) project. The study is published in the new journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. You can download a PDF copy…

Sometimes accidents occur during fieldwork – what would we do if something went wrong and help was far away? Good training helps support good decisions – but good training is very rare, and often not an expected part of preparation for fieldwork! I felt it was important that our lab have the skills and perspectives…

How is the tundra biome responding to global change? We just made a small contribution to a new study in Nature led by Anne Bjorkman and Isla Myers-Smith. They have written an excellent blog post, and you can also read a summary at the BBC News. Through several years of work, they were able to…

Sean Michaletz and I have a new paper out in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology on the drivers of leaf temperature variation and stomatal regulation. Leaf temperature is important in constraining photosynthesis and transpiration in plants. Variation in leaf temperature is also very high and often different from air temperature, meaning that plants often have physiological…