And just like that, we have already finished the first of five and a half years of the LEMONTREE project. Whilst LEMONTREE officially started on the 1st January 2021, it…Read More >
Blogs
TIMING IS EVERYTHING- LEMONTREE SCIENCE MEETING- JUNE 2022
The focus for our June Science meeting, was phenology and phenological strategies as part of Challenge 1: Optimality at the leaf and plant levels, where we plan to develop a…Read More >
LEMONTREE goes to Crete: Fire in the Mediterranean By Theo Keeping
On the 15th of June, members of LEMONTREE working on wildfire attended a meeting at the Technical University of Crete, hosted by the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society…Read More >
A novel method for using pollen records to reconstruct historic fire regimes – By Natalie Sanders and Yicheng Shen
The Iberian Peninsula, home to Mediterranean beaches and mountains, pine trees and paella, sangria and siestas. But this southwestern region of Europe, mostly comprised of Portugal and Spain, is also…Read More >
Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity – By Olivia Haas and Natalie Sanders
Wildfires are a fundamental ecological process, but studying wildfire patterns and properties at a global scale is challenging. Understanding wildfire processes however, is essential to fully describe global vegetation distribution…Read More >
EEO at EGU: The LEMONTREE team present the Eco-Evolutionary Optimality theory – Natalie Sanders
Now that EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly for 2022 has come to a close and everyone is back to work, it’s been good to reflect on the week and…Read More >
A GUIDE TO LEAF CUTICLE PREPARATION – by Astrid Ode and Natalie Sanders
Figure 1. Prepared leaf cuticle samples from left to right: pine, fern and broadleaf sample If you have ever wondered how to prepare your leaf cuticles for analysis, like in…Read More >
Leaf morphological traits as adaptions to multiple climate gradients
Leaf morphological traits as adaptions to multiple climate gradients By Natalie Sanders and Wang Han Using leaf morphological traits in ecosystem modelling is limited, primarily because the function of many…Read More >
Developing an ecosystem-centred fire framework: causes and consequences
Natalie Sanders writes: How do we disentangle extreme fire events resulting from climate change with natural wildfire regimes? And how might we model the interaction of climate and ecosystem properties,…Read More >
Modelling the Growth and Yield of Arable Crops; an important addition to the assessment toolkit using Eco-Evolutionary Optimality concepts
Recently published paper in Environmental Research Letters https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2e38 Shenchao Qiao Tsinghua University writes: “Global food security is an ongoing challenge owing to the continuous rise in the human population. Evaluation…Read More >