Happy to see our paper published in @PNASNews today!! We show that tundra vegetation can substantially boost its volatile isoprene emissions in response to rising temperatures. A great collaboration with many colleagues @ERC_Research#TUVOLU@Riikka_Rinnan https://t.co/mcrLPc47UZ
@FaiolaLabUCI Hey Celia. It’s looking like the dominant driver in variation in VOC emissions in early land plants (esp mosses) is likely microbial... this needs to be part of the story.
If you find yourself lying awake at night, tossing and turning, wondering how many #tardigrades there are in a patch of #moss - science has found an answer! For a 0.1m² sample of the moss Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus it is exactly 19,909 individual tardigrades. #dailymoss#bryology
The Woman Who Solved a Cicada Mystery--but Got No Recognition. Great story from PSU history professor @CatherineMcNeur. Time to rename Cicada Cassini for it’s true discoverer! @sciam #stem#glassceiling#entomology https://t.co/x65PlLZpPY
'Menthol-Plus’: a major category of cigarette found among ‘concept’ descriptor cigarettes from Mexico
Allure & peril.
Nice article by Jim Pankow's team in Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Sci @Portland_State & Joanna Cohen @JohnsHopkinsSPH.
https://t.co/jUOAbsrqLq
@EnvEcoLab Have used both the SPAD 502 (pretty bombproof and good for students ) and the optisciences 300. I like the opti-sciences as the small fiber optic gives more measurement options...
Maybe you know that most mosses have separate male and female plants. So how do they reproduce if they cant move? We used to think that the gametes just got carried along in water. Turns out the mosses are a bit freakier than that...
New Tansley Insight from Breshears and co. on heat wave impacts on plants. Its great to see heat per se get some extra focus within the plant mortality frameworks. Nice stuff!
https://t.co/W2tBYmCF4C
#TreeThinking
'Basal' lineages .... Many of us still cling to old habits of a sort of teleo-evolution. Let's be careful with language.
Both (b) and (c) are state of the art. Is Homo 'basal'?
(Physcomitrella is a bryophyte).
@mcdaniellab in https://t.co/Nq6msScUn3
Hannah Prather climbs trees to learn how they will adapt to climate change. Or how they won’t.
She is part of a Smart Trees Collaborative whose research indicates increased risks of wildfire — tragically illustrated by recent fires across the region.
https://t.co/02AdTEEkRl
Extreme wildfire smoke particles blanketing Portland’s urban tree canopy. What impact does particle deposition have on tall tree physiology? Our team is about to have some answers. #AirPollution#urbantrees#smarttrees#deposition