A new paper from the LEMONTREE project has just been published in Nature Plants by formed LEMONTREE post-doc Xu Lian from Columbia University. The paper involves our S.P.E.C.I.A.L group PI…Read More >

Last week a few members of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L research group attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference held in Vienna. EGU focuses on research around Earth, planetary and space sciences…Read More >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

A new publication involving SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison has recently been published in Communications Earth & Environment, sharing work from the Alienor Lavergne on global optimality-based modelling of C3…Read More >

In the second half of 2025, SPECIAL Group research student Theo Keeping graduated with a PhD from the University of Reading. One of the chapters from his thesis has now…Read More >