Natural Wonder – Why are leaves so variable?
Have you ever considered why leaves are so large in the tropics, yet so long and thin in arid ares?
So let’s look at the main drivers of leaf shape.
Tag: climate change
Avoiding another Great Dying – learnings from the world’s greatest extinction event
Planet Earth, a quarter of an aeon ago. A series of volcanic eruptions in what we now call Siberia has
How do we quantify Australia’s ecosystem services?
We need to develop the measures and metrics used to track the state, condition and trajectory of our ecosystem services if we are to value and ultimately restore them.
Towards a global picture of plant ecological function
We’ve all noticed that vegetation and the size and shape of plants and their leaves changes as we move across different climates, but do these patterns hold true across the globe?
It’s hotting up for plants
What does a warmer future mean for plants? Can plants adapt, or will they be driven to extinction? Read on
Gardening in the face of a changing climate
Since 1880, the average global temperature has increased by 0.8°℃, with large changes in rainfall redistribution. With these changing conditions upon us,
How the warming world could turn many plants and animals into climate refugees
Finding the optimum environment and avoiding uninhabitable conditions has been a challenge facing species throughout the history of life on
The maladapted future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed*
Why do we need to take urgent account of current climate maladaptation in ecological restoration….. I am sitting in my office
Shifting restoration’s mindset away from the ‘Garden of Eden’
There has been a recent recommendation to set restoration baselines as pre-degradation ecological communities. However this is a nostalgic aspiration, akin
Plant adaptation under a changing climate
Many plants, and trees in particular, have been standing where they are today for 100s and even 1000s of years.
Biodiversity Revolution 