How well do climate models represent the plants that make up our land carbon sink?
Our new research compares crops and C3/C4 vegetation across leading ESMs, using carbon isotopes to reveal important uncertainties.
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Led by @JOvwemuvwose in @EGU_BioGeo
International team using Eco-Evolutionary Optimality theory to improve land surface models. Funded by Schmidt Sciences, led by Sandy Harrison & Colin Prentice.
- Late to the celebrations… she was too modest to tell us! 🎉Delighted to celebrate Wang Han and her Tsinghua Uni Outstanding Mentor Award, recognising her fantastic support for early-career scientists. 🌱 Read more here:👇 research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/cele… @WangHanSci @lpicea @Tsinghua_Uni
- Check out our blog by ECR Sophia Cain who recently attended the @Cambridge_ICCS summer school! A great week learning a range of computational skills needed in today's world of AI and working with large climate datasets, including ethics & sustainability. research.reading.ac.uk/lemontree/iccs…
- Calling all land carbon cycle researchers! 🌍🌱 Submit your abstract to our LEMONTREE-convened #AGU26 session: Deciphering Land Carbon Sinks: Integrating Data, Models & Observations. 📅 Deadline: 5 August 2026 🔗 Submit your abstract: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prel… Please share!
- Delighted to see LEMONTREE's Dr @KeepingTheo on Newsnight discussing the extreme weather we have been experiencing and wildfire risks."The fire weather conditions were observed to have increased in likelihood by over 20 times." Imperial College's Theodore Keeping talks to #Newsnight about the wild fires in Southern Spain


