After weeks of hiking through alpine tundra, forests and dry river valleys, the field campaign in the Baima Mountains has come to an end. While the sampling in the field…Read More >
Blogs
Fieldwork in the Baima Mountains Part 2: Sampling Begins
Last week, we shared the start of this year’s field campaign in the spectacular Baima Mountains of Yunnan Province, where LEMONTREE Principal Investigators Prof. Sandy Harrison and Prof. Colin Prentice…Read More >
Fieldwork Begins in the Baima Mountains
The LEMONTREE team is back in southwest China, where Professors Sandy Harrison and Colin Prentice are continuing their long-standing collaboration with colleagues at Tsinghua University. As Distinguished Visiting Professors at…Read More >
Understanding Carbon Allocation Across Scales: Highlights from the LEMONTREE Science Meeting
In our latest LEMONTREE science-themed meeting, we explored carbon allocation across scales—from belowground processes controlling fine root investment and nutrient acquisition, through whole-plant allocation strategies and forest demographic processes, to…Read More >
LEMONTREE in the Tansley Review’s Top 10 Most Viewed: Reflecting on Our Carbon–Nitrogen Synthesis
We’re excited to share that our 2024 New Phytologist Tansley Review, Empirical evidence and theoretical understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycle interactions, has been recognised as one of the…Read More >
Environmental Controls on Photosynthetic Efficiency: New Insights from Global Ecosystem Data
A new study led by LEMONTREE post-doc, David Sandoval, was just published in New Phytologist. It challenges a long-standing assumption used in terrestrial biosphere models that the maximum quantum yield…Read More >
Leaf-Root Trait Decoupling in Subtropical Forests
How do plants decide where to invest their resources? Should they build tough, long-lasting leaves that conserve nutrients, or thinner leaves that grow fast and photosynthesize quickly? Should they invest…Read More >
Triple-Target Optimization: Heat as the Third Target in Plant Function
As the climate warms, understanding how plants respond to warming and particularly extreme temperature is important for predicting the future of ecosystems and the global carbon cycle. Most land surface…Read More >
Coordinated leaf trait responses to elevated CO₂: experimental evidence from crop species
In order to thrive in a changing climate, plants must adapt their physiology. These adjustments are not just about individual traits changing in isolation, plants must balance multiple processes at…Read More >
LEMONTREE AT EGU 2026
It’s almost EGU time — always a highlight of the year! And as always, the conference is set in beautiful Vienna. The team will arrive on Sunday 3rd May for…Read More >
