Martin De Kauwe

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Super cool database compiled by Fabian J. Fischer (Uni Bristol/TUM)!

Intense heatwaves directly threaten crops and native species. Here’s what we can do Sustained extreme heat can damage, weaken and kill all living things, from wheat crops to koalas and fruit bats.

Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to global food systems. Our new piece in The Conversation looks at how intense heatwaves put crops and native species at risk — and what we can actually do about it.
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JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 8 March

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We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!

Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!

We look forward to receiving your applications!

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Come and join us at Bristol 👇👀

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Congrats, nice juggling!

🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

see also blog on the paper 👇

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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.

We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....

Fits perfectly in the movie

Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle
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Camille S. Delavaux

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!

Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇

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hello new look :). Congrats superstar

Certificate for winning Nature Award for Mentoring in Science

Professor Andy Radford with some of his mentees at the University of Bristol

Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️

Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏

#proud #support

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Close enough to visit us here too 👀

Land Cover Changes Redistribute China's Water Resources Through Atmospheric Moisture Recycling Land use/cover changes (LUCC) in China increased ET (+1.71 mm/yr) and precipitation (+1.24 mm/yr) but decreased water availability (WA) (−0.46 mm/yr) LUCC caused the most severe WA reduction in C...

Regreening & the water cycle

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62 is also no age. I can see 62! The link in the Independent is another great read. I feel very sad about this.

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Also, a nice tribute here.

Robin Smith, former England cricketer, dies aged 62 Robin Smith, the former England and Hampshire batter who made more than 4,000 Test runs between 1988 and 1996, has died at the age of 62

A childhood hero, gone

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

coving I think. But there might be a fancier word for the fancier-looking bits :). Architrave is for the frames around doorways

I was checking at lunch if European countries had these, as it occurred to me it might not be a global thing

Congrats on this!

Discussing relocating to Australia this morning at breakfast … I floated the idea I would set up a decorating company (Pom paints). We won’t do skirting boards, a niche proposition I grant you, but I’m not painting any more skirting boards after this final coat

New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z

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