After almost five years of work, we have a new paper out in New Phytologist on venation network architecture. You can read the article at the journal or directly download a PDF. The paper is part of the international and multi-institution BALI project, with fieldwork carried out in Sabah, Malaysia primarily in 2015. Sabine Both…

Luiza’s Ecuador work was just featured in a piece we wrote for Smithsonian Voices. Check it out!

We just had a new paper come out in Functional Ecology on predicting leaf temperatures and the functional traits that influence it. The paper is the outcome of fieldwork we did in 2016 in Colorado with Sabastian Escobar, Rozalia Kapas, and Sean Michaletz. It’s been a long road to get it published! You can read…

For the past week the valleys here have been hidden behind a wall of smoke, and the days have smelt like fire. The White River National Forest has been burning, and the smoke has been carried south into the Gunnison National Forest. So far nothing here has burned, and nothing probably will – but who…