Fires in the Amazon don't just release carbon directly. The ozone they generate damages the surrounding forest, adding a quarter again to fire's carbon losses. Work by Dr Brown, using data from www.tropoz.org now out in Communications Earth & Environment: www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-04047-0

Fire-derived ozone intensifies carbon loss in Amazon forests under extreme droughts - Communications Earth & Environment

Fire-derived ozone increases carbon losses from the Amazon by about one quarter of direct fire emissions, with damage persisting during extreme drought despite stomatal limitation, based on land-surfa...

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Modelling stomatal function into the future Cheesman et al. @awcheesman.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @coxypm.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Soil phosphorus drives subcontinental patterns of carbon-isotope discrimination across Australia Alam et al. @awcheesman.bsky.social @mdekauwe.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social @lucascernusak.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out in Ecological Solutions and Evidence on the use of lasers in tropical forest restoration Thanks to the Wild Country Environmental Fund and Rainforest Rescue for supporting the work besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check out our piece in @theconversation.com explaining how intraspecific trait coordination across climatic gradients helps to avoid heat stress in some (but not all) tropical tree species theconversation.com/some-tropica...

Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope

In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.

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Featured on the cover of @globalchangebio.bsky.social is a thermal image of Elaeocarpus Grandis taken at @jcuofficial.bsky.social Daintree Rainforest Observatory. In this species we find that populations originating from warmer climates have narrower leaves with higher rates of water loss.

Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees

We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...

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Heading to Oaxaca for #ATBC2025 ? Make sure you stop by our symposium for all things leaf temperature, heat tolerance, and tradeoffs across climate gradients 🌿💧🌡️

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