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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 25d

I found an obituary for Steve

www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring

Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

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Yuzhen Fan @yuzhenfan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our global meta-analysis is finally out - we explore the most important influencer on C4 photosynthetic capacity using ~1700 C4 Aci curves! Data are freely available for the community.

New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Environmental conditions drive variation in C4 photosynthetic capacity more than species traits

Fan, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience @yuzhenfan.bsky.social

VpmaxA and Amax plotted by C4 biochemical subtypes (a and b, respectively), growth forms (c and d, respectively) and growth locations (e and f, respectively).

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Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · Aug 18

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · Aug 1

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - our paper was born of collective frustration around continual conflation of restoration + reforestation, invariably misrepresenting open ecosystems in global models of ecosystem C storage potential.

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Jul 14

What a pleasure to write a News & Views piece on this intriguing article that found surprising insights into WUE trends --> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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chenwei-xiao.bsky.social @chenwei-xiao.bsky.social · May 15

(1/3) I'm thrilled to announce the publication of our new paper on the impacts of land use and land cover changes on ecosystem sensitivity to drought and temperature fluctuations! 🌍🌳 Check it out here: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024....
📊 #LandCoverChange #Deforestation #Drought #EcosystemStability

Deforestation Increases Vegetation Vulnerability to Drought Across Biomes

Satellite observations show that drought impacts on biomass are more severe when forests are converted to non-forests Dynamic global vegetation models generally agree on a more negative drought s...

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Jingfeng Xiao @jingfengxiao.bsky.social · Apr 5

A gap-filled and partitioned eddy covariance flux dataset for 34 sites across Northwest China is now publicly available online. Our data paper, led by Xufeng Wang, just came out in Earth System Science Data.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

A post-processed carbon flux dataset for 34 eddy covariance flux sites across the Heihe River basin, China

Abstract. The eddy covariance (EC) technique is currently the most widely used method for measuring carbon exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere at the ecosystem scale. Using this...

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Feb 25

Nice! Would be good to compare with our grazing implementation in LPJ-GUESS at some point (which is still in its infancy).

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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · Feb 3

Newly calibrated grass behaviour in the #FATESmodel :) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

California annual grass phenology and allometry influence ecosystem dynamics and fire regime in a vegetation demography model

Grass-dominated ecosystems cover wide areas of the land surface yet have received far less attention from the Earth System Model (ESM) community. This limits model projections of ecosystem dynamics .....

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Florian Busch @florianabusch.bsky.social · Jan 14

Some physiological processes that can be neglected when measuring gas exchange in happy plants become important when dealing with stressed plants. In this paper we outline the things that might cause trouble under suboptimal conditions.

Shout out to the new journal @plantecophys.bsky.social !

Diego A. Márquez @dmarquez.bsky.social · Jan 14

Excited to share our paper with Anna Gardner and @florianabusch.bsky.social in Plant Ecophysiology!🌿

We review challenges in interpreting plant stress responses using gas exchange data, offer solutions to improve accuracy and discuss gaps in our current knowledge.

www.sciltp.com/journals/Pla...

$Detailed representation of H2O gas exchange (left) and CO2 gas exchange (right) at the adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) leaf surfaces in an amphistomatous leaf. This panel illustrates the separate gas exchange processes for each leaf surface, which can be measured individually if the upper and lower cuvettes are analysed separately—though this setup is not common in commercial gas exchange systems. Stomatal, cuticle, and boundary layer resistances are depicted for both surfaces, along with the mole fractions of water vapour and CO2.$

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · Jan 7

Beef has a climate problem. Facing it requires we look beyond greenwashing and focus on hard truths.

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Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems

I’ll admit it: I like beef. Like many Americans, I was brought up to believe that beef was a central part of a traditional family meal. My mom made it. My kids ate it. Marketing campaigns told me it w...

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Jan 5

Boreal forests are heading for an open state | PNAS

The boreal forest biome is warming four times faster than the global average. Changes so far are moderate, but time lags in responses may transient...

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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨 New paper led by Gab #nosocialmedia Abramowitz: On the predictability of turbulent fluxes from land: PLUMBER2 MIP experimental description and preliminary results bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

On the predictability of turbulent fluxes from land: PLUMBER2 MIP experimental description and preliminary results

Abstract. Accurate representation of the turbulent exchange of carbon, water, and heat between the land surface and the atmosphere is critical for modelling global energy, water, and carbon cycles in ...

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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · Dec 12

Congratulations to Dr Jürgen Knauer for winning this year's @ecolsocaus.bsky.social ARDC Award for New Developers of Software! Read our interview with Jürgen about his winning software and research: ardc.edu.au/article/shap... #ESAus2024

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Dec 14

What a nice surprise and recognition from Western Sydney University while overseas!

Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 12

Congratulations @juergenknauer.bsky.social winning Western Sydney U ECR Excellence award!

Mark Tjoelker accepts award on Juergens behalf at WSU award ceremony

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Dec 11

What an honour to receive this year's open source software award! Thanks to @ardc.bsky.social for sponsoring and thanks to @bmedlyn.bsky.social for jumping in to present at #ESAus2024

Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 10

Congratulations @juergenknauer.bsky.social ! Super work on the "bigleaf" R package being recognised by @ardc.bsky.social

Certificate: ESA/ARDC Award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology 2024 Winner - Juergen Knauer for 'BigLeaf R Package'

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Nov 30

please add me :)

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Nov 30

thanks! No I didn't know I'm an atmospheric scientist until I saw this ;)

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Jürgen Knauer @juergenknauer.bsky.social · Nov 29

Honoured to have been named Australia's leading researcher in Atmospheric Sciences by the Australian. Read the interview here:
www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...

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Silvia Caldararu🌿 @scaldararu.bsky.social · Nov 20

🧪🌏🌾 New paper out! We show more realistic photosynthesis models predict higher CO2 uptake going into the future: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Higher global gross primary productivity under future climate with more advanced representations of ...

Bringing the latest understanding of plant physiology into models suggests larger increases of future plant productivity.

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Nov 20

Very proud of this excellent work by postdoc Juergen Knauer! Also read his Conversation article about it:

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