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 >
SPECIAL Blog
Blog of the SPECIAL team members
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 >
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 >
Rethinking biomisation to reconstruct vegetation patterns by Esmerelda Cruz-Silva and Sandy Harrison
Improving future projections of changes in climate and the terrestrial biosphere by exploiting the power of the past is the main aim of SPECIAL (Sandy’s Palaeo Environments and Climate Analysis…Read More >
The SPECIAL presence at the EGU General Assembly 2022 by Paul Lincoln
The SPECIAL group took part in the annual migration of geoscientists to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly between the 23rd and 27th May. The EGU General…Read More >
Participation in FURNACES annual meeting by Yicheng Shen
The three day FURNACES annual meeting was held from 24th to 26th November. Due to the new COVID restrictions in Germany and Austria, the meeting was held only in virtual…Read More >
One more successful attempt for developing more robust model based on Eco-Evolutionary Optimality (EEO) concepts by Shengchao Qiao
Global food security is an ongoing challenge for humanity owing to the continuous growth of global population. Meanwhile, assessment of global food security contributes to the sustainable development goal of…Read More >
SPECIAL at the EAA Annual Meeting 2021 by Luke Sweeney
From the 6th to 11th of September, Sandy and I attended the 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists “in” Kiel. As is the unfortunate norm of scientific…Read More >
Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements by Huiying Xu
I have been interested in plant hydraulics since I was an undergraduate. After I joined LPICEA at Tsinghua University, my supervisor Han Wang gave me the chance to learn about…Read More >
