In early August, after a long flight from the Netherlands, we touched down in Perth, Western Australia. We were greeted by associate professor Erik Veneklaas and postdoc Paul Drake from…Read More >
Blogs
10 Questions with Professor Iain Colin Prentice
“You can generally trust the data, but not necessarily the interpretation” Professor Iain Colin Prentice from Imperial College London is the Science Strategy Lead for LEMONTREE and lead PI for…Read More >
10 Questions with Prof Sandy Harrison
“Be prepared for serendipitous events” Sandy is a Professor in Global Palaeoclimates and Biogeochemical Cycles at the University of Reading. She was awarded her BA (Hons) from Cambridge,…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 >
LEMONTREE OPTIMALITY MEETING 21st to 22nd JULY
Following on from the MMEE conference, members of the LEMONTREE team stayed for a further 2 days of project meetings. It is the first time the team has meet in…Read More >
Optimality mini-symposium at the 8th MMEE conference
The week of the 18th July 2022 was the hottest on record in the UK, a sweltering 40°C. The headlines were filled with climate change and how these extremes will…Read More >
Extreme heat in the UK and wildfires: why we should expect it to happen again
On Friday 15th July 2022, the UK Met Office issued its first ever Red Warning for exceptional heat. Over the following two days, temperatures across the UK broke records, reaching…Read More >
LEMONTREE experimental scientists ascend upon the Rocky Mountains to test eco-evolutionary optimality theory
The experimental plant physiology group from Texas Tech University (TTU) traveled to the Rocky Mountains to test eco-evolutionary optimality theory along a >1000-meter elevational gradient in support of the LEMONTREE…Read More >
Year 1 highlights
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 >
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 >
