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 >
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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 >
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 >
Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements.
Recently accepted paper for publication in New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17656 Huiying Xu, Tsinghua University writes: “Close coupling between water loss and CO2 uptake processes lead to the long-observed coordination between hydraulic…Read More >
