Overview A number of SPECIAL group members work within the LEMONTREE project which aims to build a new model of the terrestrial biosphere. LEMONTREE is now moving into it’s implementation…Read More >
LEMONTREE Summer School: The ECR Experience
In the final week of August the LEMONTREE Project hosted it’s first summer school. A number of the SPECIAL team attended the summer school in Utrecht, the Netherlands, including Olivia…Read More >
New Research on the Global Drivers of Wildfire
A new paper titled “The Global Drivers of Wildfire” has been published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, providing insights into the environmental factors that influence wildfires worldwide. The work presented…Read More >
Tree Migration to Jumping Spiders: The 2024 MMEE Conference. By Dom Robson
I attended this year’s iteration of the biennial Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution conference, which ran from 15th-18th July, at the University of Vienna. A packed schedule saw three…Read More >
Temporally enhanced vegetation dataset indicates persistent global greening.
Introduction Group leader Sandy Harrison recently published a manuscript in the journal remote sensing of the environment as part of the LEMONTREE project. The work was led by Sungchan Jeong…Read More >
Congratulations to Giulia Mengoli
The SPEICAL group would like to congratulate Giulia Mengoli who successfully defended her PhD thesis this month. In addition, one publication from her PhD has recently been recognized as one…Read More >
Exploring the biodiversity and functional traits of China’s forests.
Figure 1. The Fieldwork team including members from LPICEA, Imperial College London’s Colin Prentice, SPECIAL group leader Sandy Harrison and Masters students from Fujian Normal University SPECIAL group leader Sandy…Read More >
The SPECIAL EPD Database: an expanded resource to document changes in vegetation and climate from pollen records from Europe, the Middle East and western Eurasia Description: Past changes in vegetation…Read More >
