The paper “Global ecosystems and fire: a multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15160), led by Gitta Lasslop (Senckenberg: https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/sbik-f/biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services/team-biodiversitaet-und-oekosystemdienstleistungen-im-erdsystem/) has come out today. This paper…Read More >
SPECIAL Blog
Blog of the SPECIAL team members
Slow train coming. By Sandy Harrison
I am very glad that our paper “Organising principles for vegetation dynamics” was published today in Nature Plants (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-020-0655-x). This perspective paper explores new approaches to modelling the terrestrial biosphere…Read More >
P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production. By Sandy Harrison
The P model is increasingly at the centre of work that we are doing in the SPECIAL group, forming the basis for work on past vegetation productivity, peatland growth and…Read More >
Anyone for fieldwork (with elephants)? By Sandy Harrison
Sandy has just returned from a ten-day trip to Bangalore, which was originally planned to coincide with the PACMEDY stakeholder meeting in Pune and opportunities to give lectures at the…Read More >
Guest post – The SISAL working group. By Nikita Kaushal
February, 2020 marks the end of the first phase of the 3-year PAGES Working Group called SISAL. SISAL – Speleothem Isotope Synthesis and Analysis was the herculean effort lead by…Read More >
Extending a first-principles primary production model to predict wheat yields. By Sandy Harrison
Tsinghua Tiger Shengchao Qiao’s first paper is now out in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107932). In this paper, Shengchao has extended the P model to create a new model –…Read More >
Brierley et al. “Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations” now available in CoP Discussions by Sandy P. Harrison
There was a flurry of PMIP-related activity over the Christmas and New Year “holidays” because of the need to get papers describing experimental results that are going to be cited…Read More >
A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison
The good news this morning is that Sean’s paper describing the new method he’s developed to reconstruct palaeoclimate using data assimilation techniques has been published (open access, of course) In…Read More >
Launch of Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society written by Pablo Paiewonsky, Alexander Kuhn-Regnier and David Kesner
The launch of the new Leverhulme Centre was celebrated with a symposium on November the 13th, 2019, at Imperial College London. SPECIAL group members Alexander Kuhn-Regnier, David Kesner, Pablo Paiewonsky,…Read More >
On the road to the ERC Starting grant through the SPECIAL highway by Łukasz Pawlik
I’m happy to join the Special group and glad Professor Sandy Harrison agreed to be my supervisor during my stay here at the University of Reading. I currently work as…Read More >
