New paper out!🗞️🎉
How do Cerrado plants cope with drought?🌳💧
In our new study in @annbot.bsky.social, we show how water availability shapes drought-tolerance strategies in Cerrado species across contrasting phytophysiognomies
Read the paper: 👇
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
Plots showing relationship between branch diameter measured with optical dendrometry and stem water potential measured with a psychrometry
🚨 New paper out in Journal of Plant Hydraulics!
jplanthydro.org/article/view...
Our team shows that Optical Dendrometry on small branches produces an incredibly tight linear relationship with water potential (R² ≈ 0.99) during drought‑to‑death drydowns in Eucalyptus crebra.
We relaunch our seminar series!
Jordi Martinez-Vilalta will talk on the
‘Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality’
24 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC
www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/
New publication on stomatal decoupling led by Zhaoguo Wang. I first noticed decoupling in temperature response curves in 2016 (tinyurl.com/k6dnhn94) and have been intrigued since. This study focuses on decoupling under experimental warming, showing interesting patterns
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 🌿🔬
@irnase.bsky.social
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
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...
@charlottegrossiord.bsky.social
@wslresearch.bsky.social
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
🔥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...
