Caroline Lehmann
@caroaceae.bsky.social
Savanna ecology + biogeography.
Lover of plants, pickles, data + pastry.
Professor University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 🏴🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪
https://globalgrassygroup.github.io/
Lover of plants, pickles, data + pastry.
Professor University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 🏴🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪
https://globalgrassygroup.github.io/
Congrats 🎉 Dr Eshelman!! @s-eshelman.bsky.social graduated her PhD having completed fab work on the functional ecology of grasses + grazing. Look out for her papers on grazing lawns, intraspecific trait variation and using herbarium specimens to examine grass life histories across Madagascar. 🥂😊👏
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Congrats 🎉 Dr Eshelman!! @s-eshelman.bsky.social graduated her PhD having completed fab work on the functional ecology of grasses + grazing. Look out for her papers on grazing lawns, intraspecific trait variation and using herbarium specimens to examine grass life histories across Madagascar. 🥂😊👏
Friday afternoon in the herbarium ID'ing specimens from a fire experiment in central Zambia while listening to Massive Attack. Joy! Here is the delightful Clematis villosa, a geoxyle, with a wild seedhead. Now realising I saw this species in central Madagascar last November.
August 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Friday afternoon in the herbarium ID'ing specimens from a fire experiment in central Zambia while listening to Massive Attack. Joy! Here is the delightful Clematis villosa, a geoxyle, with a wild seedhead. Now realising I saw this species in central Madagascar last November.
Just coz... Chrysopogon fallax in flower. So hard to get good pics of grasses in flower. This was just over a month ago near Alice Springs.
July 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just coz... Chrysopogon fallax in flower. So hard to get good pics of grasses in flower. This was just over a month ago near Alice Springs.
Out in the heaths of Western Australia - stunning. Might not be peak season but wow. The floral diversity but also the truly crazy variation in leaf form.
June 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Out in the heaths of Western Australia - stunning. Might not be peak season but wow. The floral diversity but also the truly crazy variation in leaf form.
Doesn't get better than the desert in bloom, with a weekend walking and talking about plants, megafauna and prehistoric Australia.
June 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Doesn't get better than the desert in bloom, with a weekend walking and talking about plants, megafauna and prehistoric Australia.
One of the great pleasures of my job - walking through the garden after closing on a spring evening.
May 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the great pleasures of my job - walking through the garden after closing on a spring evening.
Amidst all the world crazy, time in the sunny (!) Highlands with our delightfully enthusiastic 2nd year Geography class is quite the antidote. 😎☀️😎☀️
April 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Amidst all the world crazy, time in the sunny (!) Highlands with our delightfully enthusiastic 2nd year Geography class is quite the antidote. 😎☀️😎☀️
Til next time Tana
March 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Til next time Tana
When you come downstairs to hit the road at 6.45 to find an integral element missing... one can only hope the wheel returns soon.🤞🤷🍀
March 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When you come downstairs to hit the road at 6.45 to find an integral element missing... one can only hope the wheel returns soon.🤞🤷🍀
Special few days camped in gallery forest in Central Madagascar. Cynorkis purpurea flowering along the creeks, Sifaka leaping through trees and all microclimate sensors across forest-grassland boundaries still there! 🌍
March 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Special few days camped in gallery forest in Central Madagascar. Cynorkis purpurea flowering along the creeks, Sifaka leaping through trees and all microclimate sensors across forest-grassland boundaries still there! 🌍
Rural Madagascar at its finest today. Vistas of rice paddies, marble outcrops covered in aloes and storm clouds rising. 🌍
March 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Rural Madagascar at its finest today. Vistas of rice paddies, marble outcrops covered in aloes and storm clouds rising. 🌍
Wonderfully fun afternoon with botanists and ecologists debating classifications of Madagascars ecosystems. We are getting closer to standardising our understanding. Such a wonderful way to see how disciplines inform and support each other.
March 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Wonderfully fun afternoon with botanists and ecologists debating classifications of Madagascars ecosystems. We are getting closer to standardising our understanding. Such a wonderful way to see how disciplines inform and support each other.
Looks like it's max 4 pics in one post. Heres a couple more.
March 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Looks like it's max 4 pics in one post. Heres a couple more.
Fantastic FunkyBio presentations from @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @adamdevenish.bsky.social @s-eshelman.bsky.social @jess-rickenback.bsky.social at the Savanna Science Network Meeting. Thanks to SANParks for always hosting a brilliantly collegiate conference. Till 2026!
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fantastic FunkyBio presentations from @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @adamdevenish.bsky.social @s-eshelman.bsky.social @jess-rickenback.bsky.social at the Savanna Science Network Meeting. Thanks to SANParks for always hosting a brilliantly collegiate conference. Till 2026!
For comparison - same camera phone, different user... Behold the beauty of a giant twig wilter 🤩😍 With the fab photo taken by @wieczor.bsky.social who knows how to use a camera... 😂😊
March 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
For comparison - same camera phone, different user... Behold the beauty of a giant twig wilter 🤩😍 With the fab photo taken by @wieczor.bsky.social who knows how to use a camera... 😂😊
After a wonderful two weeks in Kruger, crouched among the grasses on the experimental burn plots and incredible experiences watching + listening to the animals, I can say with certainty my capacity to capture those moments remains limited 😂😂😂 from graceful giraffe 🦒 to bugs mimicing a burnt leaf.
March 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
After a wonderful two weeks in Kruger, crouched among the grasses on the experimental burn plots and incredible experiences watching + listening to the animals, I can say with certainty my capacity to capture those moments remains limited 😂😂😂 from graceful giraffe 🦒 to bugs mimicing a burnt leaf.
Here's a better pic of the Catharanthus. Blooming everywhere. Hmm that might be me. And a pic of the cutest little lily for good measure.
November 30, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Here's a better pic of the Catharanthus. Blooming everywhere. Hmm that might be me. And a pic of the cutest little lily for good measure.
First winter snow ❄️ in Edinburgh this morning 🌨️ ❄️🌨️❄️
November 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM
First winter snow ❄️ in Edinburgh this morning 🌨️ ❄️🌨️❄️
Over the last weeks in Madagascar we've been setting up weather stations and micromet sensors over topographic gradients to downscale climate data + model grassland-forest mosaics under varied land use scenarios. Super fun + hard hill walking! 🌍
November 23, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Over the last weeks in Madagascar we've been setting up weather stations and micromet sensors over topographic gradients to downscale climate data + model grassland-forest mosaics under varied land use scenarios. Super fun + hard hill walking! 🌍
Across tropical grasslands, the first rains bring the first flowering. In the Madagascar Central Highlands it's orchids, irises, lilies, sedges and a bunch of others like Catharanthus. Small plants with delicate flowers seeking pollinators before being overtopped by grasses. 😍⛈️🌍
November 23, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Across tropical grasslands, the first rains bring the first flowering. In the Madagascar Central Highlands it's orchids, irises, lilies, sedges and a bunch of others like Catharanthus. Small plants with delicate flowers seeking pollinators before being overtopped by grasses. 😍⛈️🌍
Back from a marvel of a week on the Isle of Eigg. Not connected to the main grid the island generates it's own power and with the island managed by a community trust. What a contrast to the Scottish mainland with estates and the gas/oil dependency of rural communities.
September 9, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Back from a marvel of a week on the Isle of Eigg. Not connected to the main grid the island generates it's own power and with the island managed by a community trust. What a contrast to the Scottish mainland with estates and the gas/oil dependency of rural communities.
Amazing few weeks with an incredible team from Flinders + U Washington. Endless desert dunes and grasslands, 25 Mya leaf macro fossils, the desert in bloom, Diprotontid fossils at the edges of salt lakes with weeks of life set by sunrise and sunset.
July 3, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Amazing few weeks with an incredible team from Flinders + U Washington. Endless desert dunes and grasslands, 25 Mya leaf macro fossils, the desert in bloom, Diprotontid fossils at the edges of salt lakes with weeks of life set by sunrise and sunset.
Who doesn't want a 6am tour of a Palaeo lab while packing trailers. ✅ Etadunna and Alcoota here we come.
June 17, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Who doesn't want a 6am tour of a Palaeo lab while packing trailers. ✅ Etadunna and Alcoota here we come.
Exciting to be back under big Australian skies and off to the desert.
June 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Exciting to be back under big Australian skies and off to the desert.