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5 Jun 2024
Happy to see this landmark study for #EucFACE finally published. Led by @jiangminkai and Kristine Crous, we've completed one of the first full ecosystem phosphorus budgets ever done
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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2 Nov 2023
Fieldwork on Mount Banks in the Blue Mountains. It is an exposed, windswept heathland on low-P sandstone until near the top where a surprise awaits: well- developed rainforest on basalt, with triple the leaf P concentration compared to adjacent plants on sandstone!
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12 Oct 2023
Today I’m exchanging this canopy near my home in the Blue Mountains in Australia for another! I’m heading to the canopy8th@casconf.cn at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in China. Looking forward to talking canopy science for a week!
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10 Oct 2023
Final scientific presentations as we say goodbye to Alice from @ULBruxelles and Tielde from @fbwUGent, two very talented Masters students from 🇧🇪 working @westsyduhie and a legacy of my professorship with francquifoundation.be/
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Dave Ellsworth retweeted
23 Feb 2023
The 1st official announcement of the 8th Canopy Conference (in person!!!) at Xishuangbanna, China! Please share with your network and colleagues! If you want to be in the loop, please email me at canopy@xtbg.ac.cn
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23 Aug 2023
An exciting new paper finding tropical forest leaf and canopy temperatures might exceed their upper temperature limits more often than thought, particularly with warming. Can tropical trees adapt to warming, and how, are key Q’s. See
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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29 Jul 2023
Some key thoughts on the current spate of heatwaves by a leading atmospheric scientist @BerkeleyBiomet blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/07/2…
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26 Jul 2023
Students from 3 Indian Universities visit @eucface @westernsydneyu (from G.B. Pant University, Maharana Pratep University, & Sri Karen Narendra University). Heaps of Q’s about CO2 answered!
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3 Jul 2023
New student at @eucface @westernsydneyu, Alice from Université libre de Bruxelles. Bienvenue á Alice. Some of the shrubs @eucface have been the most responsive to elevated CO2 so Alice will investigate this further
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13 Jun 2023
2nd of 2: the result. Mind you, I’m quite humbled by this species in the Anacadiaceae. Hand ok, wrist & forearm not ok. I did get the data though!
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13 Jun 2023
Aussie tar tree, Semecarpus australiensis, a rainforest species. Only one other person has ever measured it’s leaves for photosynthesis. ‘Contact with the plant can cause serious allergic reactions. Surely that won’t be me (I wore surgical gloves) 1 of 2
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8 Jun 2023
It’s a wrap. 14 uncommon/ Gondwanan tree species from Lauraceae, Myrtaceae, Proteaceae and Cunoniaceae as well as Anacardiaceae, Meliaceae, Sapotaceae, etc. measured for photosynthetic & leaf characteristics in the rainforest @jcu_dro. Back home to measure phosphorus, etc in lab
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3 Jun 2023
Surprises abound in the rainforest. But I didn’t expect this cassowary to walk right out in front of me! Second heaviest bird in the world, there are thought to be between 1500 & 2500 of these birds in Australia. An uncommon sighting indeed
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2 Jun 2023
Measuring rainforest tree photosynthesis in the wet tropics from the Cape Tribulation canopy crane. This is not a particularly low P soil, but we aim to look at the different P acquisition strategies here, and how P is relevant to photosynthesis
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29 May 2023
Measuring rainforest tree photosynthesis at 23 m off the ground in the Daintree in far north Qld. This is a Syzygium (Myrtaceae), one of 47 species in the genus that grow in a ~100 km strip of rainforest in this part of the world.
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26 May 2023
Back working in the rainforest in the Daintree in far North Queensland.
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8 May 2023
It was great to have a large contingent of the best agricuture, horticulture and forestry students from Kashmir, India busting us at #eucface Thanks!
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