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 >
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Leaf Nitrogen Declines: What European Forests Reveal About CO₂ Acclimation and Ecosystem Resilience
One of the biological signals emerging from our changing climate is a decline in leaf nitrogen concentrations (LNC) across ecosystems worldwide. For years, this trend has raised concern: Are forests…Read More >
Testing Eco-Evolutionary Theory: How Tropical Forest Traits vary with Dryness
By Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng We have seen many global analyses of plant traits. Admittedly, many of them are intriguing and insightful. However, there is a reoccurring issue evident in most…Read More >
LEMONTREE at the Gordon Research Conference: Modelling CO₂ Assimilation Using EEO
LEMONTREE Principal Investigator Professor Nick Smith was an invited speaker at this year’s Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on CO₂ Assimilation in Plants: From Genome to Biome, held 8–13 June 2025…Read More >
LEMONTREE at EGU 2025: Sharing our work in Eco-Evolutionary Optimality and land surface modelling
Each spring, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly brings together tens of thousands of Earth, planetary, and space scientists in Vienna for a week of exchange, insight, and inspiration….Read More >
A New Universal Model for Predicting Leaf Area Dynamics Across the Globe
Published in Global Change Biology, this new study led by LEMONTREE PhD student Boya Zhou proposes a breakthrough approach to modelling how leaf area changes over time—an essential piece of…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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
