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Bong's apple harvest
After a season hard at work making measurements of apple tree growth, it's good to harvest an edible product! September 2020
Social distancing
And after six months of zoom calls, it's good to see each other in person once in a while! September 2020
On the radio
Kim has been on the radio discussing the responses of plants to recent Australian fires. Feb 2020
Emma's work published
Emma Jardine has mapped leaf characteristics across the world's savannas by working in the herbarium at Kew Botanic Gardens. She found that species diversity in the leaves within each savanna ecosystem is more important than variation among different regions. This is important for modellers interested in how climate change will impact the world’s ecosystems.
Jan 2020
Starting something big
Kim and Colin visited Brad Ripley and his team at Rhodes University in South Africa to set up a huge NERC-funded experiment looking at savanna tree-grass competition under elevated CO2 and drought conditions. Jan 2020
Story telling
Suma has been telling the story of her research in the Global South in a Sheffield pub. Dec 2019