The LEMONTREE (Land Ecosystem Models based On New Theory, obseRvations and ExperimEnts) project is currently developing a next-generation model of the terrestrial biosphere and its interactions with the carbon cycle,…Read More >
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Virtual visit to the Tsinghua Tiger Team. By Sandy Harrison
This month I have been in Tsinghua virtually, working on a daily basis with the team in Earth Sciences: Han Wang, Huiying Xu, Shengchao Qiao, Yanghan Ren, Ziqi Zhu and…Read More >
World Without Fire: Another FireMIP paper is out! By Sandy Harrison
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 >
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 >
The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru
Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas Bru attended the 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress between 25th and 31st July 2019 in Dublin (Ireland) to represent the SPECIAL research…Read More >
EGU 2019 Science Highlights. By Mark Turner
Sandy Harrison, Laia Comas Bru, and I went to the EGU in Vienna last week, I for the first time. It’s a huge and impressively wide-ranging conference (and in a…Read More >
What causes spatial and temporal differences in photosynthetic traits? By Sandy Harrison
Our new paper “Functional trait variation related to gap dynamics in tropical moist forests: a vegetation modelling perspective” is now online in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. This…Read More >
What are the key variables that control global fire patterns? By Sandy Harrison
Our new paper on the emergent relationships between key climate, vegetation and socioeconomic variables and burned area as seen in satellite observations and as captured by fire-enabled vegetation models has…Read More >
