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…

Global Change Biology just published our study of disequilibrium in plant functional biogeography. A classic idea is that the functional composition of plant communities is a function of contemporary climate – for example, warmer and wetter environment may support taller trees. However, this argument only works well if species respond quickly to climate change, such…