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Alexander Cheesman @AWCheesman

A plant ecophysiologist & soil biogeochemist

Joined July 2015
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
TropOz@Trop_Oz
12 Sep 2024
How much carbon is being lost from tropical forests due to ozone pollution? New results from our work just out in Nature Geoscience. #airpollution, #ozone, #tropicalforests rdcu.be/dTKUN
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Kali Middleby@KaliMiddleby
5 Sep 2024
The countdown is on! After 4 years of traipsing around the rainforest and thinking a lot about leaf temperatures, I'll be presenting the results of my PhD at my pre-completion seminar on September 12th. DM me for the Zoom link if you want to join!
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Climate-based prediction of carbon fluxes from deadwood in Australia bg.copernicus.org/articles/2…

Climate-based prediction of carbon fluxes from deadwood in Australia

Abstract. Deadwood is an important yet understudied carbon pool in tropical ecosystems. Deadwood degradation to CO2 through decomposer (microbial, termite) activities is driven by wood moisture and...

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Kali Middleby@KaliMiddleby
18 May 2024
How does elevated temperature and vapour pressure deficit impact leaf gas exchange and plant growth in tropical rainforest trees? The first chapter of my PhD is now out in @NewPhyt nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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The Biosphere Stable Isotopes a week-long introduction to stable isotope is being held in the Daintree 13th to the 20th of June 2024. bioisotopesworkshop.com/2
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Prof. Carl Sagan
@ProfCarlSagan
28 Mar 2024
Do you Remember this Voice?
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
New Phytologist@NewPhyt
15 Dec 2023
Shifts in internal stem damage and implications for forest biomass 📖 ow.ly/Q3v750QimNC by Flores-Moreno et al. @HabaFM @StevenDAllison @red_termite @BeccasBugs @LucasCernusak @AWCheesman @AmyZanne
Locations of the five sites in the study area in Far North Queensland, Australia, and number of plant species.

ALT Locations of the five sites in the study area in Far North Queensland, Australia, and number of plant species.

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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
TropOz@Trop_Oz
11 Sep 2023
Delighted to share our new paper on the potential impacts of ground-level ozone on sugarcane production in Brazil sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Kali Middleby@KaliMiddleby
6 Sep 2023
Thrilled to see our research about temperature thresholds of tropical trees led by Chris Doughty featured on the cover of @Nature. The cover shows a thermal image (taken by me!) of tropical tree species Alstonia scholaris and Melicope rubra in Australia. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Josh Fisher@jawzsh
23 Aug 2023
New @Nature paper: tropical forest temps from ECOSTRESS leaf-level are starting to exceed Tcrit--where leaf function begins to fail. Models warming experiments show non-linear increases in surface temp w/ inc. air temp --> tipping point w/in RCP 8.5. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
TropOz@Trop_Oz
21 Aug 2023
Mst Nahid Farha, succesfully presenting her pre completion seminar on the impacts of ozone on tropical plants!
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Kali Middleby@KaliMiddleby
6 Aug 2023
Attending #ESA2023 ? Interested in how tropical trees respond to high temperatures vs high vapour pressure deficit? Come to my talk Thursday 8:30 PDT in E142 cdmcd.co/pMnkXQ #ESA2023
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Australian Tropical Herbarium@aust_trop_herb
19 Jul 2023
Thrilled to be a Eureka Prize finalist! The #TroMPS project is a large collaboration saving tropical cloud forest flora. @RBG_Victoria @ecoart_sci @IanPotterFdn @WetTropicsMA @BotanicSydney @ANBG @Parks_Australia @ParksVictoria @jcu
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
TESS@TESSJCU
11 May 2023
Join us for our weekly TESS seminar. Live in the Crowther Lecture Theatre (A3-003) Smithfield and online on Zoom and YouTube. *Please visit the TESS website for the streaming links, abstract and speaker bio: jcu.edu.au/tess/seminars
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Playing with licors. Examining VPD sensitivity in tropical trees using LI-6400s
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Dave Ellsworth@ausellsworth
26 Apr 2023
Just out! A leaf warming experiment done in both a temperate and tropical forest canopy, showing how 4 °C warming disrupts leaf homeothermy and negatively affects leaf photosynthesis in both systems. Read about it at academic.oup.com/treephys/ad…

Similar patterns of leaf temperatures and thermal acclimation to warming in temperate and tropical...

Abstract. As the global climate warms, a key question is how increased leaf temperatures will affect tree physiology and the coupling between leaf and air

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New paper out! Testing In-drain denitrifying woodchip bioreactors for reducing nitrogen runoff sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Chris Packham
@ChrisGPackham
20 Mar 2023
This is brilliant - utterly brilliant . Watch it and follow @ClimateSciBreak & the superb @JonathanPieNews & get to London for #TheBigOne from the 21st April . Please RT !
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Alexander Cheesman retweeted
Arun Singh@cearun
19 Jan 2023
Our latest research on tropical rainforest tree responses to warming. @LucasCernusak @DMCrayn @AWCheesman, Noel Preece, @HabaFM Thanks to the funding bodies: @IanPotterFdn @SkyrailResearch @WetTropicsMA #elevation #mountaintops #AustralianWetTropics frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

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Nice to see continued coverage of our study on the possible impacts of climate change on termite activity around the world. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Hungry and on the march as the climate heats up: Termites in Australia

The continent's unique giant northern termite has a highly destructive appetite and expanding range. Like other loathsome insects, it loves a warmer planet.

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