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Belinda Medlyn
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Professor, Ecosystem Modelling, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney U. Ecophysiologist and #DeadTreeDetective

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Belinda Medlyn FAA is a plant physiologist, ecologist and mathematical modeller. Her research explores how plants, and particularly trees, respond to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. .. more

Environmental science 53%
Agriculture 15%
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 13d
HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria

‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Jan 6
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Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster
The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Jan 6
Our talented CSC student, Ruiling Lu, collated forest inventory data dating back to the 1940's from colleagues across the country. After accounting for stand dynamics, we still see a similar increasing trend in mortality in forests from Tassie to the NT, associated with increasing temps

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Jan 6
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 11
Many congrats to the authors, especially lead authors Raphael Trouve and Sophie Yang, for their thought-provoking and discussion-generating articles! @natcomms.nature.com @newphyt.bsky.social

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 11
Close runner-up
Yang, S., Ooi, M.K.J., Falster, D.S. and Cornwell, W.K. Continental-scale empirical evidence for relationships between fire response strategies and fire frequency doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Fantastic big-picture analysis testing hypotheses in fire ecology
Continental‐scale empirical evidence for relationships between fire response strategies and fire frequency
Theory suggests that the dominance of resprouting and seeding, two key mechanisms through which plants persist with recurrent fire, both depend on other traits and vary with fire regime. However, ...
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 11
Our winner is
Trouvé, R., Baker, P.J., Ducey, M.J. et al. Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Really clever re-use of an old dataset to provide new insights into climate effects on forest dynamics
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Dec 11
Time for #oneforjournalclub paper of the year! Drum roll please ..
Journal club end of year voting party: Belinda, Vijay, Krish, Chris, Laura, Drew, Assaf, Sonam, Aaranya, Clare (on screen), Aakash, Erick, Beatrice, Davide, Amy

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Owen Atkin @owenatkin.bsky.social · Nov 3
Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
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Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Oct 31
Check out our latest updates!

🌱 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal application deadline
🌱 Upcoming New Phytologist Now webinar
🌱 An exciting announcement from Plants, People, Planet
🌱 Details of next year's New Phytologist Symposium on extreme heat

...and more:

📨 www.newphytologist.org/news/latest-...

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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · Oct 29
Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.
PhD advert for Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success

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John Dwyer @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social · Oct 25
Yesterday we were treated to an inspirational seminar from Dr Laura Williams from @westsyduhie.bsky.social all about the importance of tree diversity, novel ways to quantify it and its consequences for how forests function. Good luck with the richly-deserved DECRA Laura!!! Ping @bmedlyn.bsky.social

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
NB Applicants must have working rights in Australia

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
One more! Here the stellar Laura Williams leads a review of detection + attribution of change in Australian vegetation. The upshot: with current monitoring, it's remarkably difficult to attribute effects of climate - which has important consequences for management

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
The arboretum has been even more heavily affected by drought this year - sad to see, but fascinating from a research perspective
Dead Trees in a row at Currency Creek

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
Drought sensitivity in eucalypts is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density - great work by PhD student Victoria Perez-Martinez at @deannicolle1.bsky.social Currency Creek Arboretum during the Tinderbox drought

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Drought sensitivity is climate‐adapted and consistently influenced by wood density and maximum height in eucalypts
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
Analysis of eddy-covariance C and water fluxes during the Australian Tinderbox drought of 2017-2019 showed remarkable resilience and recovery in most Australian forest types. Great work from @clares-hydro.bsky.social and OzFlux community

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The Response and Recovery of Carbon and Water Fluxes in Australian Ecosystems Exposed to Severe Drought
We examined flux data across a range of Australian ecosystems exposed to severe drought over two years (2018-19). The driest ecosystems experienced large productivity declines, but intermediate ecosy...
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9
Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring
Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...
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Ian Wright @ianjwright.bsky.social · Sep 9
📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · Sep 9
Fascinating paper by Laura Williams, @bmedlyn.bsky.social and colleagues - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case
Climate change is contributing to vegetation changes that threaten life support systems. Yet, inherent climatic variability and past and present human actions—such as clearing, burning and grazing re....
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Sep 8
Environmental conditions drive variation in C4 photosynthetic capacity more than species traits

Fan, et al.

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VpmaxA and Amax plotted by C4 biochemical subtypes (a and b, respectively), growth forms (c and d, respectively) and growth locations (e and f, respectively).

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Aug 18
Fabulous #PhD project opportunity on #Eucalypt diversity - super interesting project plus you get to work with the truly amazing Laura Williams
suzeveringham.bsky.social Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · Aug 18
PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Suz Everingham @suzeveringham.bsky.social · Aug 18
PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Nov 2
Oceania Ecological Forecasting Initiative seminar this afternoon 3pm AEDT!
Nick Clark, UQ will speak on "Ecological forecasting with Dynamic Generalized Additive Models"
ecoforecast.org/oceania-ecol...

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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · Feb 10
Indigenous pyrodiversity promotes plant diversity 🌏🧪
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figure from paper

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Mar 5
Great to collaborate on another brilliant ECR-led paper on vegetation-carbon-climate dynamics over deep time!

@julrogger.bsky.social et al. propose that the thermal adaption capacity of plants is an important carbon cycle feedback.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Nov 12
Linking source-sink relationships and phenology: Internal physiological drivers of leaf development in trees: Understanding the relationship between non‐structural carbohydrates and leaf phenology
Internal physiological drivers of leaf development in trees: Understanding the relationship between non‐structural carbohydrates and leaf phenology
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Dryland Plant Ecophysiology Lab @hultinelab.bsky.social · Nov 18
Check out this recent paper by Dr. Jaclyn Corbin et al. in Plant, Cell and Environment showing how leaf reflectance can predict interactive genetic and environmental effects on tree phenotypes: doi.org/10.1111/pce....

#OpenAccess #PlantBiology #Botany

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Nov 19
Global patterns of stand-replacing disturbances in forests. The data covers all regions and forested biomes. This is an amazing piece of work! 🌏🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Landscape patterns in stand-replacing disturbances across the world’s forests - Nature Sustainability
Forests are subject to natural and human-induced disturbances, which can be important in shaping their form and function. In this study, the authors examine the landscape patterns of global forest dis...
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