What happens when trees lose the ability to cool their leaves? 🌳 Although trees can acclimate to heat, drought disrupts thermoregulation, driving a hydraulic–thermal cascade and leaf scorching. 🍂 Just out in PNAS doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Alyssa Kullberg
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Plant ecophysiologist @EPFL and @WSL_research | she/her | http://alyssakullberg.com/home
As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z