Markus Löw
@markusloew.bsky.social
Measuring what plants do
Looking at plants while cycling or bushwalking
Looking at plants while cycling or bushwalking
Good conditions for work on Au-Wom #eddycovariance tower. Completed the profile system. Data look good so far 😃
February 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Good conditions for work on Au-Wom #eddycovariance tower. Completed the profile system. Data look good so far 😃
Rays of sunlight poking through the trees on a smokey day in Wombat Forest. The smoke is from the Carlisle / Otways bushfire more than 100 km away. Eerie day working in the haze.
January 29, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Rays of sunlight poking through the trees on a smokey day in Wombat Forest. The smoke is from the Carlisle / Otways bushfire more than 100 km away. Eerie day working in the haze.
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📡 Margaret Torn, Director of the AmeriFlux Management Program, announced the soft launch of the FluxNet Shuttle, incorporating 9 TERN/OzFlux sites. Aggregation of TERN #data into FluxNet is vital for broader #datadelivery.
Check out the #GitHub page: github.com/fluxnet/shut...
Check out the #GitHub page: github.com/fluxnet/shut...
December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
📡 Margaret Torn, Director of the AmeriFlux Management Program, announced the soft launch of the FluxNet Shuttle, incorporating 9 TERN/OzFlux sites. Aggregation of TERN #data into FluxNet is vital for broader #datadelivery.
Check out the #GitHub page: github.com/fluxnet/shut...
Check out the #GitHub page: github.com/fluxnet/shut...
Upgraded the Au-Whr and Au-Wom towers with profile systems in the last two weeks. The data make beautiful lines so far 😃 #eddycovariance #ozflux @unimelb.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Upgraded the Au-Whr and Au-Wom towers with profile systems in the last two weeks. The data make beautiful lines so far 😃 #eddycovariance #ozflux @unimelb.bsky.social
Au-Wom Wombat Forest #eddycovariance tower spring clean and check ups. No water ingress in this anemometer 😃 And no damage from the storm on Wednesday, only one tree down in the plot. The DIY Lora #dendrometers survived winter too - mostly.
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Au-Wom Wombat Forest #eddycovariance tower spring clean and check ups. No water ingress in this anemometer 😃 And no damage from the storm on Wednesday, only one tree down in the plot. The DIY Lora #dendrometers survived winter too - mostly.
Spring cleaning and maintenance trip to Au-Tum Tumbarumba this week! It got a bit wet and foggy up there 😐. But a good trip anyway! #flux data analysis for the year so far resulted in some interesting challenges too. #eddycovariance #unimelb #tern #tern
October 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Spring cleaning and maintenance trip to Au-Tum Tumbarumba this week! It got a bit wet and foggy up there 😐. But a good trip anyway! #flux data analysis for the year so far resulted in some interesting challenges too. #eddycovariance #unimelb #tern #tern
Check ups, and updates at some of my #eddycovariance #fluxtowers, big and small, this week. Data coming in nicely. #ozflux
September 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Check ups, and updates at some of my #eddycovariance #fluxtowers, big and small, this week. Data coming in nicely. #ozflux
Good news! We installed a new #eddycovariance flux tower this week during a too short trip to the outback. This time we're monitoring salt bush vegetation. It is a fantastic opportunity to work in an arid landscape. Seemingly endless plains, great scenery, and ever changing colours. #ozflux
August 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Good news! We installed a new #eddycovariance flux tower this week during a too short trip to the outback. This time we're monitoring salt bush vegetation. It is a fantastic opportunity to work in an arid landscape. Seemingly endless plains, great scenery, and ever changing colours. #ozflux
Had a great time at the #fluxnet 2025 conference @fluxnet.bsky.social Great people, new ideas, new challenges. 😃
July 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Had a great time at the #fluxnet 2025 conference @fluxnet.bsky.social Great people, new ideas, new challenges. 😃
Alpine forests face collapse after bushfires and lack of seeds
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Alpine forests face collapse without urgent reforestation, say scientists
Bushfires and a lack of seed have created a "ticking time bomb" in Victoria's alpine and mountain ash forests, scientists are warning.
www.abc.net.au
June 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Alpine forests face collapse after bushfires and lack of seeds
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
After the recent redesign /rebuild and upgrade of the Au-Whr Whroo flux tower to prevent further theft and vandalism, we now reinstalled a mixture of old and new soil sensors. #eddycovariance
June 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
After the recent redesign /rebuild and upgrade of the Au-Whr Whroo flux tower to prevent further theft and vandalism, we now reinstalled a mixture of old and new soil sensors. #eddycovariance
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Excited to share our new paper led by Tsinghua Uni ECR Zhang Han: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... New model based on eco-evolutionary optimality explains observed seasonal and spatial trends in stem respiration, implies stem CO2 efflux down by >25% by 2100, reducing land carbon emissions.
Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback
The efflux of carbon dioxide (CO2) from woody stems, a proxy for stem respiration, is a critical carbon flux from ecosystems to the atmosphere, which increases with temperature on short timescales. Ho...
www.science.org
May 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Excited to share our new paper led by Tsinghua Uni ECR Zhang Han: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... New model based on eco-evolutionary optimality explains observed seasonal and spatial trends in stem respiration, implies stem CO2 efflux down by >25% by 2100, reducing land carbon emissions.
I am excited to start our field campaign to study the interaction between herbivory, leaf phytochemicals and microbiome under a simulated drought forest experiment at KROOF 🌿🦋🔬 @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social #Grams #MichaelEisenring #MartinGossner #WLS #TUM
May 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Three #eddycovariance towers in three days. Moved one, added two. These little towers are part of a long term agricultural trial.
May 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Three #eddycovariance towers in three days. Moved one, added two. These little towers are part of a long term agricultural trial.
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Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
A synthesis of free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments describing the response of forest net primary productivity (NPP) to elevated atmospheric CO2 published in 2005 has provided a valuable benchm...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
Backyard eddycovariance tower 😉. I set up a system at home over the Easter holidays to tweak, test, and monitor the setup. Let's find out if my backyard is a carbon sink or source. Science at home 👍
April 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Backyard eddycovariance tower 😉. I set up a system at home over the Easter holidays to tweak, test, and monitor the setup. Let's find out if my backyard is a carbon sink or source. Science at home 👍
#Fieldwork on AU-Wom Wombat Forest #eddycovariance flux tower today when a planned burn in the distance got a bit out of hand
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#Fieldwork on AU-Wom Wombat Forest #eddycovariance flux tower today when a planned burn in the distance got a bit out of hand
Preparation of the next three #fluxtowers has started 😀. #newgearday. Hope they'll be deployed before winter.
April 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Preparation of the next three #fluxtowers has started 😀. #newgearday. Hope they'll be deployed before winter.
#bikepacking weekend in Gariwerd / Grampians National Park
April 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#bikepacking weekend in Gariwerd / Grampians National Park
Another big week at the Au-Tum Tumbarumba flux tower: Installed a profile system to improve the #eddycovariance measurements.
April 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Another big week at the Au-Tum Tumbarumba flux tower: Installed a profile system to improve the #eddycovariance measurements.
On the way to #fluxtower work in the high country.
March 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
On the way to #fluxtower work in the high country.
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Good bye Twitter! 😥
HELLO BLUESKY!!! 😀
HELLO BLUESKY!!! 😀
February 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Good bye Twitter! 😥
HELLO BLUESKY!!! 😀
HELLO BLUESKY!!! 😀
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Vertical canopy gradients of respiration drive plant carbon budgets and leaf area index
Vertical canopy gradients of respiration drive plant carbon budgets and leaf area index
Despite its importance for determining global carbon fluxes, leaf respiration remains poorly constrained in land surface models (LSMs). We tested the sensitivity of the Energy Exascale Earth System ...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Vertical canopy gradients of respiration drive plant carbon budgets and leaf area index
#bikepacking overnighter in Kara Kara National Park #camping #cycling and lots of hike-a-bike on the loose rocky steep bits 👍
February 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#bikepacking overnighter in Kara Kara National Park #camping #cycling and lots of hike-a-bike on the loose rocky steep bits 👍