After the LEMONTREE annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea, which took place from 25 to 29 August 2025, I had the opportunity to stay in Seoul for another month and…Read More >
Regina O’Kelley
Regina is a PDRA at the University of Reading focused on adding capacity for representing management strategies in fire models. She brings a background in soil ecology, disturbance, and natural…Read More >
Ananda Kurth
Ananda is a PhD student at the University of Bern, studying under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Stocker. Ananda’s research focuses on vegetation modeling, particularly on developing a model-data…Read More >
Global assessment of environmental and plant-trait influences on root:shoot biomass ratios
How plants divide their resources between roots and shoots, i.e., the ratio of root to shoot biomass (R:S) is a crucial indicator of how plants adapt to their environments. Root…Read More >
How CO2 and Climate Shaped the World’s Vegetation During the Late Quaternary
When we think about how our planet’s ecosystems respond to change, we often focus on temperature and rainfall. But there’s another, equally critical player: carbon dioxide (CO2) that has largely…Read More >
Energy Partitioning Workshop Two: Beyond Solar Induced Florescence
Last October, we hosted our first Energy Partitioning Workshop, bringing together a cross-disciplinary team to explore how better understanding of plant pigments could transform the way we monitor Earth from…Read More >
Trading Nitrogen for Water: What Sugar Maples Teach Us About Photosynthetic Economics
How do trees decide how to use the resources available to them? Just like any economy, plants face trade-offs. They must balance investments of nutrients and water to maintain photosynthesis….Read More >
IMFIREDUP 2025 – Second Meeting of the Consortium
The IMFIREDUP (Improved Modelling of FIRE: Development, Understanding and Prediction) consortium came together once again in September 2025 (see here for the blog on our original meeting last year) for…Read More >
Yuzhi Zhu
Yuzhi Zhu is a PhD student at Tsinghua University. Yuzhi is now working on constructing plant functional diversity theories based on eco-evolutionary optimality principles, as well as modeling the thermal…Read More >
Akash Verma
Akash Verma is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. His research focuses on canopy thermoregulation in tropical forests from a surface energy balance perspective. He completed his PhD at…Read More >
