Combobulated writer. Postdoc @BiologyTTU. Plant ecophysiologist interested in biogeochemistry, photosynthetic acclimation, and microbial ecology

Lubbock, TX
Joined August 2017
Some mammatus near LBB airport @NWSLubbock
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🎉Congrats to @SteniBocker et al whose @NewPhyt Tansley Review on C + N cycles has been recognised as one of the Top 10 most viewed papers of 2024! Read our blog reflecting on this review, why it resonated, and how we continue to build on this work 👇research.reading.ac.uk/lemon…
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🌱Do leaves and roots follow the same strategy? New research led by @ZhuYuzhi5778 in @Ecology_Letters shows that leaf and fine root traits in subtropical forest plants are largely decoupled, with independent above- and below-ground resource strategies. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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🚨🌱One to check out- our latest blog for our research on how EEO explains the acclimated temperature response of photosynthesis! research.reading.ac.uk/lemon…
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🌳 Sugar maples sacrifice nitrogen use efficiency for greater water use efficiency while keeping photosynthesis steady. This field test of least-cost theory has big implications for land carbon models. Blog 👇, link to paper in chain. 👉 research.reading.ac.uk/lemon… @EvanPerkowski
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Annual science meeting of @schmidtsciences @Lemontree_UofR project hosted in @SeoulNatlUni @snucals1 was filled with curiosity and fun! The program included one day of open seminars, two days of science meetings, and two days dedicated to the Early Career Researcher (ECR) summer school. The open seminar welcomed nearly 100 participants and featured presentations covering a wide range of topics on Eco-Evolutionary Optimality principles. The talks sparked many engaging questions and discussions. The science meeting highlighted updates from various working groups. It was a valuable opportunity for all of us to see the overall progress of the project, which led many discussions. The ECR summer school combined lectures on theory with hands-on training in LiDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. We enjoyed a series of social activities too! 🍺 🐟 🥩 @SandyHarrisonRe Colin Prentice Heather Graven Xu Liang @PierreGentine @trevorkeenan Karin Rebel Hugo Jan de Boer @StockerBeni @nick_greg_smith @WangHanSci Pier Luigi Vidale Anna Agusti-Panareda Martin Best Sophia Cain Natalie Sanders Sarah Jones
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At 5pm today at #esa2025, @AlissarCheaib will present her poster: 'The satisfaction of leaf nitrogen demand under drought is modulated by soil nitrogen availability and drought severity" highlighting how water-nutrient interactions must be jointly considered in models. 👌🌿🪾
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Today at #esa2025, Snehanjana Chatterjee will present: "The influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant resource use economics" in session COS-Mycorrhizae 2 (3.30-5pm). Her work examines how AMF affect plant resource use strategies under different water & nutrient regimes
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#ESA2025 let’s grapple with the role of N and P on leaf and whole plant traits! See you today at 14:00 in BCC 349
Today at #esa2025, @EvanPerkowski is presenting: "Global response patterns of plant functional traits to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition are driven by additive individual effects of nitrogen and phosphorus addition" Session: COS – Physiological Ecology 1: 1.30-3pm.
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It's almost time for #esa2025 and we've got our @TexasTech group heading there to present their LEMONTREE research. Have fun @nick_greg_smith, @EvanPerkowski,@AlissarCheaib and Snehanjana Chatterjee! For more info on their talks head over to the blog... research.reading.ac.uk/lemon…
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🌿🌍 New research by @GiuliaMengoli reveals how plants in arid climates adjust carbon uptake as soil moisture declines. A new empirical function improves predictions of water stress impacts on ecosystems & climate models! 🔗Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @GlobalChangeBio
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Check out this blog post summarizing main findings from our recent paper looking at leaf and whole-plant responses to elevated CO2!
🌿 New blog post! How does nitrogen shape plant responses to rising CO₂? In short: leaf-level responses are driven by nitrogen demand, while whole-plant growth is constrained by nitrogen supply. Read more: 🔗 research.reading.ac.uk/lemon… @EvanPerkowski
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In contrast, whole-plant responses to eCO2 were enhanced with increasing nitrogen fertilization, supporting the large body of work indicating that nitrogen limitation constrains plant responses to eCO2. Inoculation played no role in modifying whole-plant responses to eCO2 (4/5)
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This work helps resolve the longstanding question as to whether nitrogen supply or demand drives plant responses to eCO2, showing that nitrogen demand regulates leaf-level responses to eCO2, while nitrogen supply constrains whole-plant responses. Please do check it out! (5/5)
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