Martin De Kauwe
@mdekauwe.bsky.social
Professor of Global Change Ecology 🌳🌍
School of the Biological Sciences 🌿
University of Bristol
mdekauwe.github.io
School of the Biological Sciences 🌿
University of Bristol
mdekauwe.github.io
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🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
see also blog on the paper 👇
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
see also blog on the paper 👇
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January 13, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🌳🌲Excited to share my latest research on how declining C4 vegetation impacts the carbon isotope composition of CO₂! After 4+ years of juggling work and maternity leave, it’s finally out!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
see also blog on the paper 👇
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
see also blog on the paper 👇
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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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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January 6, 2026 at 9:42 PM
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
rdcu.be/eXSa7
rdcu.be/eXSa7
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Fully funded PhD opportunity in my lab to study threatened plant species responses to drought and heat. This is part of mu recently funded DECRA fellowship.
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We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
Stellenausschreibung ID 12588
In this project, the Chair of Forest Botany at the Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology offers, subject to the availability of resources, a project position as
www.verw.tu-dresden.de
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
We are hiring three PhDs within the joint project ‘Forests in transition: The future of European beech under drought stress’. If you are interested in tree water relations in response to stem density reduction (subproject 2), see here: www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/ste....
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Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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January 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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We want ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
As we approach the end of the year, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.
Find out more in our news release 👇
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Find out more in our news release 👇
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We want ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
Tragic … we want ❄️ ⛄️
Low pressure will bring unsettled weather early this week, with rain affecting Scotland and Northern Ireland on Monday morning. Elsewhere, cloud will gradually lift to leave a brighter afternoon, although a few showers remain possible in Cornwall.
Find out more 👇
Find out more 👇
Christmas weather forecast 2025
Colder, more settled conditions expected around Christmas Day as high pressure dominates.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Tragic … we want ❄️ ⛄️
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Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle
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Editorial introducing the Special Collection: #Anthromes and terrestrial carbon – from the deep past to net-zero
Anthony P. Walker, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
#PlantScience
Anthony P. Walker, et al.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social
#PlantScience
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle
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🌐
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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!
Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social
🧵1/2
Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇
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#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!
Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social
🧵1/2
Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social
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Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️
Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏
#proud #support
@natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏
#proud #support
@natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Honoured & humbled to receive a #Nature #Award for #Mentoring in #Science yesterday. ☺️
Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏
#proud #support
@natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
Testament to the wonderful #ECRs I've been privileged to work with. THANK YOU to all who nominated me. 🙏
#proud #support
@natureportfolio.nature.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
Close enough to visit us here too 👀
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Close enough to visit us here too 👀
Discussing relocating to Australia this morning at breakfast … I floated the idea I would set up a decorating company (Pom paints). We won’t do skirting boards, a niche proposition I grant you, but I’m not painting any more skirting boards after this final coat
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Discussing relocating to Australia this morning at breakfast … I floated the idea I would set up a decorating company (Pom paints). We won’t do skirting boards, a niche proposition I grant you, but I’m not painting any more skirting boards after this final coat
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New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
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PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage!
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out.
Application deadline Jan 6th
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social
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Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions.
Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :)
hydro-jules.org/internationa...
Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :)
hydro-jules.org/internationa...
International Land Modelling Forum (ILMF) | HydroJules
hydro-jules.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Our hope here is thus to foster more awareness of and participation in ISI-MIP experiments, share challenges, and raise & answer questions.
Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :)
hydro-jules.org/internationa...
Subscribe to the ILMF list (we will send a reminder+link on Monday), or DM me and I'll send you it if that's too complicated :)
hydro-jules.org/internationa...
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On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include:
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
On Monday 10th @14:00 BST |15:00 CET |07:00 MT, the International Land Model Forum and ISI-MIP are hosting a joint webinar. Topics will include:
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.
The design of ISIMIP experiments,
Harmonization of forcing and land-use data,
Shared challenges e.g. generating sub-daily forcings for offline forcing.
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New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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It's #MongooseMonday 🎉
Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour
Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's #MongooseMonday 🎉
Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour
Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves!
#fieldwork #social #behaviour
I'm confident that multi-factor authentication is slowly driving me insane...
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm confident that multi-factor authentication is slowly driving me insane...
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How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
