🌳 New Tansley Insight!
What really limits tree growth—carbon source or sink? 🤔
I argue it’s not either/or but a distal → proximal continuum: from photosynthesis to transport and cell division, drivers act together to shape C allocation & growth 🌱🌍
🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70516

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

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@kerrloss.bsky.social
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some more have not yet arrived here, thank you very much!

Excited to share our latest publication: Trees use exogenous sugars for growth, but excess triggers negative feedback reducing photosynthetic carbon gain. Many thanks to my supervisors Mai-He Li and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and many collaborators
doi.org/10.1093/tree...

Years of drought turn forest into source of CO₂ - Press release on our research with @simonhaber.bsky.social and @chriswernerlab.bsky.social at @icos-ri.eu site DE-Har, showing tree mortality following droughts has fundamentally shifted forest structure & functioning uni-freiburg.de/en/years-of-...

Warming accelerates global drought severity - Nature

Showing off our figure of global conifer leaf-widths & leaf silhouettes highlighting that conifers can be broad-leaved & angiosperms can be narrow/ needle-leaved! 🍃

Our paper: tinyurl.com/mss2me7v
@newphyt.bsky.social

@vallicrosah.bsky.social @botanykat.bsky.social & Matilda Brown

Our latest study (submitted to JXB) is now available as a preprint. We emphasise the importance of directly measuring the CO2 flux of whole plants.🧵

Excited to share our new paper in @newphyt.bsky.social on how exogenous #sugar #infusion alleviate or exacerbate #root #carbon #limitation in different species. Many thanks to my supervisors Mai-He Li and @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social and coauthors.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Carbon allocation in #bamboo forests: #Drought can alter the allocation of newly assimilated C within the tissues of source ramets but does not affect C allocation among interconnected ramets or within the plant–soil system. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

#WomenInScience #WomenInStem #FrauenInderWissenschaft #FrauenInMINT #MintFrauen #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality - @newphyt.bsky.social ; @treemortality.bsky.social : https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20407

Would love to be added!😊

🧪🌲 Norway spruce trees can "learn" from drought! #Trees exposed to experimental #drought developed better resilience to natural drought later on. Important finding for #forest management in a changing #climate! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00468-024-02595-6

🌲 Trees have long memories! Our study shows Scots pine trees remember past water abundance even 7 years after irrigation stops! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Published in @newphyt.bsky.social: Our new paper highlights the significant role of ecological memory and legacy effects in determining tree responses to environmental changes https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20245

Nitrogen availability in soil controls uptake of different nitrogen forms by plants https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20335?saml_referrer=

Nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentrations can reflect the strategies described in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) due to their dependence on photosynthesis and respiration
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20315?saml_referrer