Henry Adams

Do you study carbon reserves in trees or woody plants? New special issue at #TreePhysiology on role of C reserves in allocation, remobilization, storage, influence on plant growth, stress response, metabolism, etc. Free to publish, open access available academic.oup.com/treephys/pages…

@AR_Castilla Congratulations!

Has AMOC run amok? Yikes!

New paper: The living piñon🌲in this photo (left) has tolerated drought treatment for 13 years (!). While a reasonable question is "why would you do this to that poor tree?" We asked: "how is this tree still alive?" Old reserves may be one answer. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

@JoeBuckInNature @wmhammond Excellent name! A place that will Trap all the tools in one place.

Do we also see this disconnect in our data? I used a PCA to project the full dataset onto a linear sub space. Basically, if the angle between photosynthesis and growth is 0, that would imply perfect correlation! As the angle approaches 90 degrees, the vectors are independent.

Congratulations to @ecofiz1 on publication of 1st PhD chapter in Nature Communications! Levels of knowledge: 1) photosynthesis drives growth, 2)environment limits growth > photosynthesis, 3) both growth and photosynthesis are co-limited. We go to #3! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

News coverage of our in-review work on timing and causes of western redcedar dieback. If only reviewers would take as much interest in the paper as the press is - maybe we could get it published! @ArjanMeddens @lrpoutside @CinquiniTrees & others columbiainsight.org/new-study-soun…

I asked ChatGPT about #whatkillstrees. It did pretty well. Clearly its plugged into the literature. The future is wild and a bit frightening....and should I by thinking more about ROS in my work?

@RaquelFeltrin You should know, it's one you made! From your ponderosa study, Ines is counting ducts post-fire

@EnvEcoLab Beautiful cross section! 🌲

That's no moon.

Oh Snap!

@SeanMichaletz @santiago_ecofiz Sean, its the famous PINK book, by Pearcy et al. amazon.com/Plant-Physiolo…

@santiago_ecofiz Louis, do you know what document that photo is from? I'd like to check it out!

Hey #PlantEcophys enthusiasts - I faintly recall photos of Hal Mooney measuring photosynthesis in Death Valley, where the gas exchange instrument was built into a van. Does anyone have this photo? I might be mis-remembering!

@jhooooks Did the paper you refer to come out yet?

Our paper expanding on these and related points about CMN studies is forthcoming soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

Great to see common #mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) and #forests in the news again! Here's a thread in which @karst_justine and I provide commentary and clarify some key points (especially wrt CMNs). First the good: washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

@pyroecophys Unite the clans @pyroecophys, Unite us!

@EnvEcoLab I have a near-perfect rejection record, but as Robert the Bruce said, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

When I hear back on submitted proposals, especially from NSF, I expect to be rejected. I am surprised when they are funded. Today I was not surprised. So that panel better not be surprised to see that proposal again in a few months!

@asaltyPhD and I wrote a commentary on Blumstein et al. 2023. Read the original: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… @treeFutures @Jess_Gersony

@karst_justine @EFrost_Wildwood @jhooooks Thanks for highlighting this. Gonna use this article and thread in my class this spring. My undergrads love to criticize the pseudoscience on this issue in discussions.

@EFrost_Wildwood @jhooooks As for the existing studies cited in the WP article, LMK your thoughts on results. I’m open to being wrong. Also, my ‘group’ is not involved in this. I don’t speak on the behalf of my students when I point out limitations of CMN research.

@jhooooks Time to pile on. "To her, the lush, multilayered understory is proof of a thriving community, where a variety of species ensures that every wavelength of light is put to good use" Remember folks, 99% of incoming PAR doesn't get fixed by plants!

@jgerardhodge @wmhammond Can we get a laser to cut off the excessive hashtags?

@wmhammond has you written all over it