So lovely to see our recent New Phytologist research highlighted here: theguardian.com/environment/ar… Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil Science at Sheffield @DJSoilEcol Emily Magkourilou

The Ecosystem as Super-organ/ism, Revisited: Scaling Hydraulics to Forests under Climate Change academic.oup.com/icb/article-ab…

🌳Viewing ecosystems as super-organisms helps predict forest responses to climate change. Scaling plant water relations to ecosystems reveals critical insights into drought resilience and forest productivity. ▶️academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar… #ClimateChange #Forestry #Ecosystems

new commentary by @TomBuckleyLab and Lawren Sack Lab in J. Plant Hydraulics! Recommended reading jplanthydro.org/article/view/8…

Excited to share J. Plant Hydraulics very first spotlight paper on AquaDust and its potential in advancing plant hydraulic research. By @TomBuckleyLab Lawren Sack Lab

Mapping trees was yesterday: here we mapped the location of almost 3 million baobabs across the entire Sahel, published in Nature Ecology: doi.org/10.1038/s41559… (free read: rdcu.be/dOVbO) Ke Huang NASA Laura Vang Rasmussen University of Copenhagen Research European Research Council (ERC)

Sensitive Hydraulic and Stomatal Decline in Extreme Drought Tolerant Species of California Ceanothus doi.org/10.1111/pce.15… Joseph Zailaa Christine Scoffoni @TomBuckleyLab Brodersen Lab Santiago Trueba Leila Fletcher Marvin Browne

A Theoretical Framework to Quantify Ecosystem Pressure‐Volume Relationships onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Resolving the contrasting leaf hydraulic adaptation of C3 and C4 grasses - Baird - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The mechanistic role of hydraulics on grass photosynthesis and adaptation to aridity Baird et al. Alec Baird Samuel Taylor @hcochard @scoffoni5 erika edwards Colin Osborne Lawren Sack Lab 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits - Zeqing Ma, Thomas N. Buckley, Lawren Sack - New Phytologist nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SE2GACKW…

The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits Ma et al. Lawren Sack Lab 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UZMRTQIY…

Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient - Medeiros - Journal of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Camila Medeiros Santiago Trueba Christian Henry Leila Fletcher

🌿The architecture of plant trait networks was more interconnected & complex in communities with higher functional richness under less arid climates Camila Medeiros Santiago Trueba Christian Henry Leila Fletcher @nathanjbkraft Lawren Sack Lab UCLA EEB👇 buff.ly/iok0dnU

Plant trait networks: Shifting of whole phenotypes with aridity and functional richness jecologyblog.com/2025/04/08/pla…

📢🌿Wind and frost have surprisingly strong effects on global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness! Latitude, biome and taxonomy matter too. Other enviro variables not so much. Research from international team including Lawren Sack Lab. Western Sydney U - HIE New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

Global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness and its environmental associations Li et al. Lawren Sack Lab Ian Wright 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Scaling between stomatal size and density in forest plants Liu et al. Lawren Sack Lab 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/5DBXP9QD…

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. grc.org/salt-and-water… Please RT!

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