Samuel Taylor

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

The ash trees are dying; There isn’t anyone I talk to about it; But they are slipping away; There is sadness in it. In the garden when I was a child, an ash tree was growing up from an old wall; I swung out with it. Here, there are more bare twigs every year; Things change.

[Lawren Sack Lab @lawrensack]

Why are grass leaf blades so diverse in size and venation? Explaining global trends with climate! with @alecsbaird and collaborators @smueltylor J Pasquet-Kok, C Vuong, Y Zhang, T Watcharamongkol, @cscoffoni5 @erikaedw P-A Christin, @sheffieldplants https://t.co/uzRVrSNGH7

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

I helped write this https://t.co/WFHfuFqdIb

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

Breakfast conversation with a five year old+Wikipedia+Google Maps=from the surface, 3/4 of the Earth’s atmosphere falls within about the distance from Trump Towers to the World Trade Centre via 2nd Avenue... #tinybubble

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

Science magazine makes some good editorial decisions https://t.co/YDHx6so8FZ

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

On my way home to the UK from a week spent with the hugely impressive @RIPEproject team. Proud and privileged to be associated with rapid progress being made, and that @DFID_Research is backing us

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

I think I heard him say gravity no longer matters, and (paraphrasing) transpiration rules. My take home was that flatland vegetation interacts with a surprisingly unique hydrological niche, and very interesting to me: in many cases that means grassland vegetation.

[Lancaster Environment Centre @LancsUniLEC]

"I realised when you are in a very flat place the [#hydrology] text books are no longer true"

Intriguing opening @ejobbagy's #lecseminar!

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

@dtbroughton ‘Nut’rient deficiency?

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

For new tips on using the RACiR approach check out the @Cphotosynthesis response https://t.co/NmFBbtgCUX to our concerns https://t.co/qL2vfZHkhH

[Hervé Cochard @HCochard]

Our new Tansley review is out: On the minimum leaf conductance: its role in models of plant water use, and ecological and environmental controls - Duursma - - New Phytologist - https://t.co/35neOOCCki

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

@williamtsalter @martijn_slot @LICOR_ENV @LongLab My understanding is the method was originally used by Chazdon & Pearcy. I think it’s Oecologia 1986. Slightly lower resolution as a time series in their implementation, but wondeful concept

[Maggie R Wagner @maggieRwagner]

Yesterday an ESA colleague proposed that we abandon conservative states to their fate & let the bigots in power rule unchallenged. No one protested. If you can’t see why sentiments like that are callous, demoralizing, and isolating to us, or don’t care, please do stay away.

[PlantEssex @PlantEssex]

New Tansley Insight on the impact of speedy stomata on photosynthesis and water use! @DrTracyLawson #stomata #photosynthesis @NewPhyt https://t.co/EMf33Ujalz

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

@NaturePlants It often rains in Lancaster, but if you deliberately drive through a puddle and soak me I consider that to be different. GM shouldn’t be a pariah, but it is intentional, so it comes with responsibility. The impact of the regulatory approach is the talking point.

[Dongliang Xiong @Xiong_DL]

Nice to read the comments of @JaumeFlexas73 to our @JXBot paper https://t.co/I8vcQQJaxZ…. "Sure, there are still many open questions. who drives Who？https://t.co/b04HDtg1LQ

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

Slow, partial day at work (laptop fan expired), but walking out of the house this evening I came eyeball-to-eyeball with a female sparrowhawk sitting on a neighbour’s wall, so it’s not all bad

[Plant Hydraulics Lab @PlantHydraulics]

Wheat leaves embolised by water stress do not recover function upon rewatering - Johnson et al Plant, Cell & Environment
https://t.co/FjQ3iflNwl

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

@BostonReview @DaytonRMartind @DSA_Enviro Ah, agency. Unruly gift to the conscious

[Samuel Taylor @smueltylor]

@field_louisa @NaturePlants @SandyKnapp @NHM_London @GarethBarlow @bbcworldservice Bent to our will... Seriously?

[erika edwards @erikaedw]

new paper with Mark Olson et al: plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold https://t.co/wNcZcQA97x