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Mirindi Eric Dusenge

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Plant ecophysiologist

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Home Advertising Space 250 px x 1900 px INSIDE UKRAINE’S PHOENIX UNIVERSITIES After being hunted, forced to flee and evading ongoing bombardments, Ukrainian HE leaders are finding new ways to thrive. […]

From today's Future Campus news: "ANU’s Susanne von Caemmerer &Graham Farquhar have collected their Royal Medal (Biol) from the Royal Society... established in 1660 and “the oldest scientific academy in continuing existence.” @biologyanu.bsky.social is proud as!
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28.10.2025 21:12 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.

An important paper - just out in @natureportfolio.nature.com documenting a decline in net C uptake by Australian rainforests. Eventually the same will occur in other rainforests - a reminder that we need to get to net zero ASAP. @biologyanu.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Drought-induced peatland carbon loss exacerbated by elevated CO2 and warming Extreme drought events are predicted to increase with climate change, yet their impacts on ecosystem carbon dynamics under warming and elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2) remain unclear. In a peatland expe...

Drought-induced peatland carbon loss exacerbated by elevated CO2 and warming | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

23.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Many thanks @csziegler.bsky.social

28.05.2025 08:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unexpected Large Photosynthetic Thermal Plasticity of Montane Andean Trees Tropical forests play a significant role in global carbon sequestration. However, our understanding of how tropical tree species adjust to climate warming remains limited to studies on seedlings grow...

Stronger photosynthetic plasticity to warming in the Andes than in Afromontane tree species

Congrats @mirindidusenge.bsky.social et al. !

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28.05.2025 07:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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PS Seminar Series: Measuring biophysical change in our native and managed ecosystems The simultaneous measurement of meteorological variables along with ecosystem physiology has improved our understanding of how native and managed ecosystems respond to external forcings like climate c...

Join us on Campus on 24th May 2025 at 12pm for a seminar by Caitlin Moore, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia. For more details use this link - biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

14.05.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Surrounded by lush vegetation in a tropical forest canopy, three take-away containers have been customised to warm leaves continuously

Surrounded by lush vegetation in a tropical forest canopy, three take-away containers have been customised to warm leaves continuously

A density plot shows the distribution of observed leaf temperatures for one example species - Myristica globosa. The graph shows that warmed leaves surpass their optimum temperature far more frequently than control leaves, and are close to their critical temperature threshold

A density plot shows the distribution of observed leaf temperatures for one example species - Myristica globosa. The graph shows that warmed leaves surpass their optimum temperature far more frequently than control leaves, and are close to their critical temperature threshold

How do tropical rainforest trees respond to warming? 🌡️🌿We experimentally warmed canopy leaves by 4°C for 8 months and found significant declines in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance, with no shift in Topt. Read the new paper, led by Kristine Crous here: shorturl.at/AVTOk

08.12.2024 02:17 — 👍 38    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0

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