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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · Jul 7

Plant Science Research Weekly -- The Shape of Adaptation: Evolution of Venation Patterns in Plants (Nature Plants) @ilainematos.bsky.social‬ @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social‬ (Summary by Elisa De Meo) buff.ly/Zvfna7N

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The shape of adaptation: Evolution of venation patterns in plants | Plantae

Leaf venation patterns display remarkable diversity across both living and fossil plant lineages, yet key questions remain about when and how these architectural differences emerged and what…

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Jul 2

Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report

- “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen”

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Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
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Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report

Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown

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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · Dec 6

Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Jan 27

Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Paulo Menezes-Silva @pmenezes-silva.bsky.social · Feb 11

🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥

Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄

Extremely proud of my student Viviane!

Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social

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Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts

Temperatures above a critical threshold can increase leaf minimum conductance after cooling, evidencing a “thermal leaky legacy effect” that can reduce pla

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Ben R Lee, PhD @benrlee.com · Jun 26

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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · Jun 25

Got mine with reports from 6 different assessors!! Is this normal? I thought it would be only 2...

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Fabien Miart @fabienmiart.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔬 Real-time imaging of plant "breathing"! 🌿💨

Stomata are tiny pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange: CO₂ in, O₂ and H₂O out.

🍌 In this video, captured with our PHENOM microscope, you can see #stomata on a banana leaf in action, breathing in real time.

#MIAtecs #Photosynthesis

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Uriel Menalled @urielmenalled.bsky.social · Jun 23

Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Jun 6

New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP

Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · Jun 6

In this just published paper we reconstructed the almost 400 million of leaf venation evolution!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · Jun 4

Several PhD opportunities at the University of Adelaide, available for both national and international students.
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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 27

Check it out! New blog post written by my honours student Jaclyn Wilmot!!
www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/...

Solving the pearl bluebush seed deficit for post-mining revegetation

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 23

New paper out! Here we discovered that interactions between different species leaf traits can greatly change the propensity of the vegetation to catch fire.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 23

New paper out! Here we investigated wether leaf traits that have been extensively used to reconstruct past climates can also inform how vegetation will respond to future climate changes.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 23

New paper out! Here we invite researchers to use better metrics to quantify drought intensity in experiments.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 23

New paper out! Here we explain that tropical mountain grasslands and cloud forests might be both vulnerable to drought albeit for different reasons.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 4

New paper out! Here we discuss the importance of using adequate metrics of drought intensity when conducting drought experiments.

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Ilaine S. Matos @ilainematos.bsky.social · May 4

New paper out! Here we investigate how mixing leaves of different plant species can impact the propensity of litter to catch fire. Check it out!

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · Mar 29

Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees

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Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Mar 24

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out

A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 7

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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