Paulo Menezes-Silva

Our lab is all dressed up for Halloween!👻🎃🍃🌿

Great to see this paper out!📰

Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌿🔬

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Just published by Gonzalez et al. in @newphyt.bsky.social:

Fifty shades of fade: linking transmittance loss to cellular death during leaf dehydration 🌳🔬

Check out our new way to follow cellular mortality using cavicams at: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Starting a new and beautiful project to explore the hydraulic and thermal limits of flowers from orchid species distributed across different Brazilian biomes🌸🌼🌸🌼

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

Join us for an exciting ITMN Seminar:
“Tiny leaks with deadly consequences” by Paulo Menezes
July 24th at 3 pm (CEST).
Register here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

Great paper, Bianca! Congrats!

My PhD paper is out!

We showed that both forest and grassland are vulnerable to drought, but the vulnerability is attributable to different reasons: higher sensitivity to drought in forests (narrower #SM50) and lower fog exposure in grasslands. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢Interested in plant drought resistance and tree mortality?🌳🌿

👥Join us to explore key physiological mechanisms behind these processes!

👨‍🎓We’re seeking strong candidates to apply for a MSCA #Postdoc Fellowship in our team.

🗓️Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 → t.ly/LmD1P

#PlantScience #Drought #TreeMortality

Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

Leaf drought and heat tolerance are integrated across three temperate biome types

I am very happy to see our paper out! Plant responses to many stresses are mediated by the same processes and I have long wondered how this relates to hotter droughts.

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

My first paper is out! We investigated how #photosynthetic and #respiratory #thermal #acclimation 🌡️ and #canopy size 🌳 shape tree net #carbon uptake under prolonged warming and drought. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Our new paper describing a novel method for measuring plant cell turgor is now online at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We demonstrate how nucleating microbubbles inside plant cells and studying their growth and dissolution dynamics allows us to estimate turgor pressure.

🌿🔥How heat and VPD shape tree survival? We tested how acclimation to high temperature & VPD impacts drought mortality. While heat speeds up death via leaf area expansion, VPD acclimation slows it down by enhancing stomatal control - balancing mortality timing. doi.org/10.1111/PCE....

My student Lucas (the bark boy) is on his way to solving a leaky radial mystery effect. Stay tuned for upcoming news on bark conductance in Cerrado species!

Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts (Viviane de Araújo Brito Fernandes, Fernanda Santos Farnese, Brenner Ryan Arantes, et. al.) https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf026 @ASPB #PlantScience

Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts Temperatures above a critical threshold can increase leaf minimum conductance after cooling, evidencing a “thermal leaky legacy effect” that can reduce pla

🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥

Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄

Extremely proud of my student Viviane!

Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Small mangrove species Aegiceris corniculatum flowering

Very happy to see this paper out in Plant, Cell & Environment ! 🥳

We show that:
➡️ Foliar water uptake contribute to leaf water potential recovery in mangroves 🌿💧
➡️ Tidal dynamic did not affect morning dew uptake 🌳🌊

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...