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Beijing: Centre of the Universe?

Posted on
23rd October 202423rd October 2024

SPECIAL group leader Sandy Harrison and LEMONTREE/Leverhulme Project co-PI Colin Prentice are currently spending their normal month as  “Distinguished Visiting Professors” at Tsinghua University this October. The plan was to…Read More >

Beijing: Centre of the Universe?

LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop Advancing Plant Pigment Research for Better Earth Monitoring

Posted on
16th October 202416th October 2024

From September 25th to 27th, a new collaborative group of scientists gathered at the scenic Warbrook House Heritage Hotel in Hook, UK, for the LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop. The goal?…Read More >

LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop Advancing Plant Pigment Research for Better Earth Monitoring

What does the next generation of fire models look like?

Posted on
4th October 20244th October 2024

On the 16th of September the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Society and the Environment hosted a number of international visitors at Dartington Hall for a brainstorming session on global fire modelling. The meeting…Read More >

What does the next generation of fire models look like?

JULES Annual Meeting September 2024

Posted on
25th September 2024

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 >

JULES Annual Meeting September 2024

LEMONTREE Summer School: The ECR Experience

Posted on
19th September 2024

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 >

LEMONTREE Summer School: The ECR Experience

New Research on the Global Drivers of Wildfire

Posted on
6th September 2024

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 >

New Research on the Global Drivers of Wildfire

Tree Migration to Jumping Spiders: The 2024 MMEE Conference. By Dom Robson

Posted on
31st July 2024

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 >

Tree Migration to Jumping Spiders: The 2024 MMEE Conference. By Dom Robson

Temporally enhanced vegetation dataset indicates persistent global greening.

Posted on
24th July 2024

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 >

Temporally enhanced vegetation dataset indicates persistent global greening.

Exploring the biodiversity and functional traits of China’s forests.

Posted on
17th July 202417th July 2024

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 >

Exploring the biodiversity and functional traits of China’s forests.

Rethinking biomisation to reconstruct vegetation patterns by Esmerelda Cruz-Silva and Sandy Harrison

Posted on
14th June 2022

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 >

Rethinking biomisation to reconstruct vegetation patterns by Esmerelda Cruz-Silva and Sandy Harrison

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