We had a little cameo in last night's episode of Ages of Ice on PBS: www.pbs.org/video/the-in...

Ages of Ice | The Incubator of Life | Episode 3

Journey beneath the ice to discover hidden worlds and clues to life beyond Earth.

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Visit of the @hyltemossa.bsky.social station in Sweden after @icos-ri.eu sci. Conf. Very nice place to work.

It's Fat Bear Week! Wait, you say, why is LI-COR posting about Fat Bears? Well, other than that Fat Bear Week is awesome and we are all nerds, bears have said hello to many instruments over the years. Sometimes the instruments survive unscathed and sometimes .... not.

🌿 Reminder: Our Special Issue celebrating 60 years of C4 photosynthesis is open for submissions. Research covering C4 biology, evolution, crop engineering & productivity is welcome 📅 Deadline: 1 Nov 2026 👉 botany.fyi/pq36r5 @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #PlantScience

Speeding up NPQ is one way to improve photosynthetic efficiency, but how much it matters depends on the photosynthetic pathway in question! Read more in this new work from Arce Cubas et al.: Faster relaxation of nonphotochemical quenching in C4 than in C3 species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Heads up leaf-level gas exchangers, the Hitchhiker's Guide PDF on LI-COR web is now adhering to slightly more modern standards with navigable contents and searchable text. Paper copies have started to make their way into the world, as well. Stay cool out there. #plants www.licor.com/resources/bo...

These are definitely the important questions! Who doesn't have a favorite greenhouse gas, honestly??

ICOS RI@icos-ri.eu · 4w ago

We're asking the big questions on the last day of ICOS Science Conference 2026... #ICOS2026SC

Who likes high-throughput respirometry? 5 @adinstruments.bsky.social PowerLabs, 32 @li-corenv.bsky.social Li840a and 8 Li7000 CO2 analysers, 48 Aalborg Mass Flow Controllers, 6 temperature cabinets, and TriKinetics activity monitoring. With 48 channels, the biggest system we have ever put together!

Kicking off the peatlands session at #ICOS2026SC, Annalea Lohila from @ilmatieteenlaitos.fi presenting C budget from ICOS Lompolojänkkä station. Highlighting the importance of long term measurements and cross disciplinary research🤝 @luke.fi @helsinki.fi @oulu.fi @uniuef.bsky.social @syke.fi

New commentary by me and PhD student Monika Kelley: "A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves" in @jxbotany.bsky.social . The new tool should make it easier to extract interesting parameters from C4 plants that make them easier to understand and model academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

A new tool for fitting C4 gas exchange response curves

This article comments on:Woodford R, Ermakova M, Furbank RT, von Caemmerer S. 2026. Fitting photosynthetic carbon dioxide and irradiance response curves fo

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Ecosystem respiration during snowmelt and soil thaw leads to a rare annual CO2 net loss in a boreal fen bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Ecosystem respiration during snowmelt and soil thaw leads to a rare annual CO2 net loss in a boreal fen

Abstract. Although boreal peatlands play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, their year-round carbon dioxide (CO2) dynamics, and particularly the contribution of the non-growing season, remain...

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Call for plant ecophysiologists! Do you have Fv/Fm or F0-rise data? Do you know someone who might? @seanmichaletz.bsky.social and @nicolebison.bsky.social would love to hear from you. (Bonus if your data are from Asia or Africa.) Please share widely! #ecology #botany #ClimateChange #HeatTolerance

🌼 The 2nd season of the BSA's podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available! 🌼 In this episode, Karolina Heyduk discusses her interest in the #ecophysiology of plants---especially CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) #photosynthesis! bit.ly/4x6gIQO #botany #plantscience @kheyduk.bsky.social

"Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists". If that's not enough to make you click that link, I don't know what would be. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists

Soil is a vital resource for life on Earth. Although many soils are degraded, societal awareness of soil-related issues is limited. To highlight soil as a key resource and fascinating study system, w....

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🌱From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Plant Resilience and #Conservation for a Changing Climate”🌱 Success of coastal sage scrub restoration is influenced by local adaptations of #shrub species By Moises R. Perea-Vega et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #climatechange #drought @amykhenry.bsky.social

Seasonal dependence of temperate forest soil respiration to soil temperature and water content clarified through data-driven modeling - Ph.D. student 🎉 Capelle et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper published in STOTEN! We used/improved the model ecosys to simulate carbon fluxes in a freshwater wetland! Access for free for 50 days: lnkd.in/g47UZZux

📣 Please join us for a Plant Physiology webinar celebrating the Focus Collection on Algae and Aquatic Plants, September 24 at 11 AM Eastern time.🌱 Featuring talks by James Moroney, Onyou Nam, and Daniel Ducat👉 blog.aspb.org/plant-physio... #PlantScience

New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

MSU Plant Resilience Institute Research Specialist Karine Prado spoke with @davidcondos.bsky.social at @kuer.org about how a native Death Valley plant is helping the @rheelab.bsky.social uncover how life can flourish in extreme heat, unlocking a potential blueprint for more heat-resilient crops.

Growing food in a hotter, drier Utah calls for crops that survive like desert plants

Native desert plants evolved not just to handle hot, dry weather but to thrive in it. Now scientists are looking for clues that might help farm crops survive in a warming world.

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“It’s really important to understand how vulnerable or resilient these carbon stocks are in the future.” The Clara Raised Bog ICOS station in Ireland collects greenhouse gas data from an ecosystem that plays dual role in climate mitigation. 👉 The #ExploreICOS video: https://ow.ly/Mx8H50Zzo0B

We found these pictures in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social's album of #ESA2026 and obviously had to repost them. All rights reserved to them.

We had a great workshop this week in South Lake Tahoe on the topic of unsaturation in the leaf airspaces, with 15 local participants from around the world and several remote. Thanks to LI-COR @li-corenv.bsky.social for generous support! @ucdavisplants.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for all of our section’s sessions. Thanks to everyone who came and presented such awesome research this year. See you next year in Buffalo! #bsaecophys #botany2026

Here is the link to "Methane exchange in a California oak savanna: insights from tree stem, soil, and ecosystem fluxes": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @etechlab.bsky.social @digitalforestlab.bsky.social @ameriflux.bsky.social @fluxnet.bsky.social

Methane exchange in a California oak savanna: insights from tree stem, soil, and ecosystem fluxes

Savannas remain underrepresented in the global methane (CH4) budget, with flux contributions from soils, vegetation and livestock poorly constrained. …

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First paper of our floating platform with an Eddy covariance tower in a Mediterranean reservoir onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/FU88P6...

This Lego minifig looks very familiar, not to mention the instrument he’s using…

Plant Ecophys (BSA)@bsa-ecophys.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Who’s excited for our #bsaecophys workshop tomorrow at #Botany2026 ? There are still a few spots open if there are still folks interested!

That's a wrap on the exhibits at #ESA2026, but LI-COR scientists will be roaming the convention center tomorrow in case you have more questions or want to talk instruments.

Large Black Bear Wandering in a Green Field

ALT: Large Black Bear Wandering in a Green Field

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It’s the last day of exhibits at #ESA2026. If you haven’t added your suggestions for what we should make/do next, come by and let your voice be heard. Note: the many requests to bring back the T-shirts HAVE been heard!

Almost time for the first poster session at #ESA2026. Come say hello and eat some ice cream.🍨