LEMONTREE
The Land Ecosystems Models based On New Theory, obseRvations and ExperimEnts, or LEMONTREE, project aims to develop a next-generation model of the terrestrial biosphere and its interactions with the carbon cycle, water cycle and climate using eco-evolutionary optimality theory.
Members of the SPECIAL group below to the Fire-Vegetation Interactions, Canopy Temperature, Vegetation Dynamics and Implementation working groups. Our team members Olivia Haas and Bart Majcher are the ECR leads of the Fire-Vegetation Interactions and Canopy Temperature working groups respectively.
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society
A few SPECIAL group members also belong to the Leverhulme Centre, working across the Fire-Veg and Climate teams. The Fire-Veg group aims to incorporate a realistic treatment of fire-vegetation interactions in the next generation of fire and earth system models and is led by members of the SPECIAL research group.
To learn more about the model the group is currently building upon in both the LEMONTREE and Fire-Veg projects read this paper here. The model is the work of Dr. Olivia Haas’ PhD thesis and is central to the fire related projects within the SPECIAL group.
RAIN
The RAIN project is a NERC grant titled where and why does it rain in the desert? The project is a collaboration with a number of universities. Prof. Sandy Harrison is the lead on the quantitative analysis of this project, using modelling and simulations. Jierong Zhao is currently completing her PhD project as part of this grant.
FIRE-ADAPT
FIRE-ADAPT project looks at the role of integrated fire management on climate adaptations in tropical and sup-tropical ecosystems. It is a collaboration across 10 countries in Europe and Latin America.
Recently, an exchange within the FIRE-ADAPT project occurred between the University of Reading and Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive (CEFE). Olivia Haas was able to travel to France and Florent Mouillot and Lilian Vallet travelled to Reading. You can read about the exchange here.
