S.P.E.C.I.A.L. group PhD Student Wenyao Gan has recently published the first paper from her thesis in New Phytologist. The paper focuses on how photosynthesis acclimates to warming, in particular, how…Read More >
Where Local Flames Meet Global Frames: Inside Our Fire Modelling Collaboration in Turin
Introduction The FIRE-ADAPT program is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Staff Exchanges project to integrate research on fire management across stand – global scales. The exchanges program helps to facilitate cross-institutional…Read More >
Effects of climate and society on population density in Northwest China from 2 CE to 1949 CE
A new study published in Global and Planetary Change by SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison and PhD student Xin Liu looks at how we can reconstruct population density across Northwest…Read More >
Jiaze Li
Jiaze Li Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jiaze is a PDRA at the University of Reading working on functional biodiversity. Her research focuses on how deep-time climate shapes global plant diversity, how…Read More >
Wildfires on a changing planet
Exciting new research from the SPECIAL group has been published in Nature Communications. This study, led by Olivia Haas (SPECIAL group post-doctoral researcher), investigates how sensitive parts of the wildfire…Read More >
Jianpu Bian
Jianpu Bian Postdoctoral Research Associate Jianpu is a PDRA working on long-term transient vegetation simulations in the mid-Holocene, and his background is climate dynamics and paleoclimate modelling. Before that,…Read More >
ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2) Description: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses (ACER) database (Sánchez Goñi et al., 2017) was originally developed…Read More >
How past climate events can help us understand future trends in climate warming
A new study on Dansgaard-Oeschger events A new publication led by SPECIAL group post-doctoral researcher Mengmeng Liu has recently been published in Climate of the Past. This paper “A global…Read More >
Isidora Xenaki
Isidora is a PhD student based in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on identifying the importance of climate, vegetation, and…Read More >
Optimality theory captures global sapwood:leaf area ratio in a new study
A new paper from SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison has recently been published in New Phytologist. The paper looks at the ratio between sapwood to leaf area in plants using…Read More >
