Ilaine S. Matos
@ilainematos.bsky.social
Plant ecophysiologist 🌳🍃🌸
Lecturer of Botany (University of Adelaide)
Dinizia's mother 💚
https://sites.google.com/view/ilainematos/home
Lecturer of Botany (University of Adelaide)
Dinizia's mother 💚
https://sites.google.com/view/ilainematos/home
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New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- The Shape of Adaptation: Evolution of Venation Patterns in Plants (Nature Plants) @ilainematos.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social (Summary by Elisa De Meo) buff.ly/Zvfna7N
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
The shape of adaptation: Evolution of venation patterns in plants | Plantae
Leaf venation patterns display remarkable diversity across both living and fossil plant lineages, yet key questions remain about when and how these architectural differences emerged and what…
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July 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- The Shape of Adaptation: Evolution of Venation Patterns in Plants (Nature Plants) @ilainematos.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social (Summary by Elisa De Meo) buff.ly/Zvfna7N
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
- “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen”
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen”
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
- “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen”
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen”
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…
December 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…
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Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
January 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥
Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄
Extremely proud of my student Viviane!
Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄
Extremely proud of my student Viviane!
Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Leaf minimum conductance dynamics during and after heat stress: Implications for plant survival under hotter droughts
Temperatures above a critical threshold can increase leaf minimum conductance after cooling, evidencing a “thermal leaky legacy effect” that can reduce pla
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥
Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄
Extremely proud of my student Viviane!
Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄
Extremely proud of my student Viviane!
Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/plph...
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I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
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🔬 Real-time imaging of plant "breathing"! 🌿💨
Stomata are tiny pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange: CO₂ in, O₂ and H₂O out.
🍌 In this video, captured with our PHENOM microscope, you can see #stomata on a banana leaf in action, breathing in real time.
#MIAtecs #Photosynthesis
Stomata are tiny pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange: CO₂ in, O₂ and H₂O out.
🍌 In this video, captured with our PHENOM microscope, you can see #stomata on a banana leaf in action, breathing in real time.
#MIAtecs #Photosynthesis
June 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🔬 Real-time imaging of plant "breathing"! 🌿💨
Stomata are tiny pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange: CO₂ in, O₂ and H₂O out.
🍌 In this video, captured with our PHENOM microscope, you can see #stomata on a banana leaf in action, breathing in real time.
#MIAtecs #Photosynthesis
Stomata are tiny pores on the leaf surface that regulate gas exchange: CO₂ in, O₂ and H₂O out.
🍌 In this video, captured with our PHENOM microscope, you can see #stomata on a banana leaf in action, breathing in real time.
#MIAtecs #Photosynthesis
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Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.
#statistics #STEM
#statistics #STEM
June 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation.
#statistics #STEM
#statistics #STEM
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New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP
Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.
Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.
June 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New Article: "Leaf venation network evolution across clades and scales" rdcu.be/epLNP
Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.
Evolution of leaf venation networks, from fewer, corrugated veins to high vein density and smoother loops. Herbivory as a potential driver of venation architectural changes.
In this just published paper we reconstructed the almost 400 million of leaf venation evolution!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In this just published paper we reconstructed the almost 400 million of leaf venation evolution!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Several PhD opportunities at the University of Adelaide, available for both national and international students.
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
June 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Several PhD opportunities at the University of Adelaide, available for both national and international students.
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...
Check it out! New blog post written by my honours student Jaclyn Wilmot!!
www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/...
www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/...
Solving the pearl bluebush seed deficit for post-mining revegetation
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May 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Check it out! New blog post written by my honours student Jaclyn Wilmot!!
www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/...
www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/...
New paper out! Here we discovered that interactions between different species leaf traits can greatly change the propensity of the vegetation to catch fire.
May 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
New paper out! Here we discovered that interactions between different species leaf traits can greatly change the propensity of the vegetation to catch fire.
New paper out! Here we investigated wether leaf traits that have been extensively used to reconstruct past climates can also inform how vegetation will respond to future climate changes.
May 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New paper out! Here we investigated wether leaf traits that have been extensively used to reconstruct past climates can also inform how vegetation will respond to future climate changes.
New paper out! Here we invite researchers to use better metrics to quantify drought intensity in experiments.
May 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
New paper out! Here we invite researchers to use better metrics to quantify drought intensity in experiments.
New paper out! Here we explain that tropical mountain grasslands and cloud forests might be both vulnerable to drought albeit for different reasons.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New paper out! Here we explain that tropical mountain grasslands and cloud forests might be both vulnerable to drought albeit for different reasons.
New paper out! Here we discuss the importance of using adequate metrics of drought intensity when conducting drought experiments.
May 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New paper out! Here we discuss the importance of using adequate metrics of drought intensity when conducting drought experiments.
New paper out! Here we investigate how mixing leaves of different plant species can impact the propensity of litter to catch fire. Check it out!
May 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New paper out! Here we investigate how mixing leaves of different plant species can impact the propensity of litter to catch fire. Check it out!
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Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees
@funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@funecology.bsky.social
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Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees
@funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out
A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.
theconversation.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out theconversation.com/prestigious-...
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In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
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Basic lab equipment is often really expensive. If you're a senior professor who's retiring consider finding a junior colleague and donating your kit.
This beauty along with a ton of other small bits were care of my amazing phd supervisor who is shutting her lab down.
🧪
This beauty along with a ton of other small bits were care of my amazing phd supervisor who is shutting her lab down.
🧪
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Basic lab equipment is often really expensive. If you're a senior professor who's retiring consider finding a junior colleague and donating your kit.
This beauty along with a ton of other small bits were care of my amazing phd supervisor who is shutting her lab down.
🧪
This beauty along with a ton of other small bits were care of my amazing phd supervisor who is shutting her lab down.
🧪