Prof. Belinda Medlyn
@b_medlyn
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@[email protected] ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow. Modelling vegetation responses to environmental change. Wants you to be a #DeadTreeDetective.
Western Sydney Uni
Joined August 2013
RT @AustPlantPhenom: Are you passionate about tech & ag? The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment is looking for a tech-savvy Digital P….
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Super excited to see postdoc Laura Williams win @arc_gov_au Decra fellowship! @westsyduhie @westernsydneyu.
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#deadtreedetective.Farmers finding dying native vegetation after dry autumn
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First it was the strange hue of the trees now it’s a real life nightmare. This is very hard to take, it must be shared because none of us can escape this. A catastrophe like we’ve never known is unfolding & exploding at an incredible rate. 🧵. #tasmania
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Our new paper lines up P-enabled vegetation models against results from #EucFACE experiment and asks: how did they do? Congrats @jiangmingkai for a huge effort co-ordinating modelling and experimental communities! @westernsydneyu @westsyduhie.
A new study on Eucalyptus forests adds to evidence that the global CO2-driven carbon sink may be overestimated by models. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances:
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Read more about it here: .A fierce battle is being fought in the soil beneath our feet – and the implications for global warming are huge via @ConversationEDU.
theconversation.com
Trees are supposed to grow faster as a result of increased CO₂ in the atmosphere - but this research suggests there are many exceptions to the rule.
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Excited to see the hard-won #EucFACE Phosphorus budget published in @springernature today. Many thanks to lead authors @jiangmingkai and Kristine Crous!.
New research published today in @SpringerNature shows that mature eucalyptus trees don’t increase their growth with increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which was expected to boost plant growth, due to soil microbes restricting their access to the essential nutrient
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RT @jiangmingkai: Extremely delighted to share this latest work from #EucFACE. We show microbial competition for phosphorus is strong that….
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Also congrats to our runners-up Chad Burton @Sami_Rifai et al. for an incredibly useful upscaling of Australian EC fluxes.
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Abstract. We develop high-resolution (1 km) estimates of gross primary productivity (GPP), ecosystem respiration (ER), and net ecosystem exchange (NEE) over the Australian continent for the period...
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#oneforjournalclub has voted! A clear winner for our paper of the year.Congrats @tommaso_jucker @SuzanneProber + co-authors for a very nice study of an underappreciated region of the world.
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Midcoast NSW Australia mass forest death (due to extreme drought & the complex effects of climate change) this is pretty terrifying. These mountains escaped being burned in 2019 & the green is dry RF.
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It has been a great pleasure to be elected to @Science_Academy alongside my brilliant soil ecologist colleague @Prof_Braj_Singh @westsyduhie.
A teaspoon of topsoil can contain up to six billion microorganisms. Prof Brajesh Singh FAA – elected a Fellow of the Academy in 2023 – is a world-leading soil microbial ecologist whose work sheds light on this complex ecosystem beneath our feet. #FellowsAA
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Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody traits and influence plant species occurrence worldwide. sPLOT analysis led by @Laughlin_DC .
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Read the paper on how stomatal decoupling - how trees amplify water use during heatwaves - here:.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Plants regulate pores called stomata to maximize carbon gain and minimize water loss, resulting in a close coupling between photosynthesis and transpiration. It is unclear if coupling continues when...
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Urban trees can help keep us cool in heatwaves - but how do the trees themselves fare? Timely research from @ReneeProko as Sydney shapes up for another extreme summer.via @ConversationEDU.
theconversation.com
New research reveals how trees respond to extreme heat. Most trees lose more water than models predict. Some species cope better than others. Access to water will be critical for the hot summer ahead.
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There is so much to love about the career that has seen me elected to @Science_Academy - beautiful forests to work in, challenging maths problems, awesome colleagues. Just wish the outcomes were less confronting @westsyduhie #EucFACE.
Studying a future in peril carries profound challenges for scientists—both personal & professional—as New Fellow and theoretical ecologist Prof Belinda Medlyn FAA (@b_medlyn @WSU) has found. She uses mathematics to forecast how forests might look by 2050.
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