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lab presentation at agu: evaporative cooling enables desert plants to maintain photosynthesis in extreme heat. lab postdoc dr. luiza aparecido will presenting our lab’s work on plant water use strategies at the american geophysical union (agu) conference in washington, dc next week. if you are attending, come check out the great work she is leading up! abstract id and title: 426630: evaporative cooling enables desert plants to maintain photosynthesis in…. new publication: empirical predictability of community responses to climate change. we have a new paper out this week on the prevalence of alternate states in community dynamics. the study is led by lab postdocs pierre gaüzère and lars iversen. the main question was: how predictable is the composition of a community when the environment changes? a clas*ic we had our first undergraduate student research presentations in our lab meeting this week. three of our students shared their summer work under the mentorship of postdoc dr. luiza aparecido – it was wonderful to see how much they have progressed in a few short months. the summer’s projects have all focused on the ecophysiology…. new paper: extreme and highly heterogeneous microclimates in selectively logged tropical forests. what is the impact of logging on the physical environment in tropical forests? we just had a new study come out addressing this topic, as part of the biodiversity and land use impacts (bali) project. the study is published in the new journal frontiers in forests and global sometimes accidents occur during fieldwork – what would we do if something went wrong and help was far away? good training helps support good decisions – but good training is very rare, and often not an expected part of preparation for fieldwork! i felt it was how is the tundra biome responding to global change? we just made a small contribution to a new study in nature led by anne bjorkman and isla myers-smith. they have written an excellent blog post, and you can also read a summary at the bbc news. through several years of