Just published in Plant & Soil we explored how mucilage affects microbial survival and respiration over a dry-rewet cycle. Read more: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/AxuGC4QOPEim…
I moved into a “new” #lab last week. A welcome surprise is finding I’m not the oldest thing in the lab. Case in point: Schott bottle labelled 9/5/71
It was great to contribute to paper led by Tsai-Hsuan Tony Hsu on fish corallivory. Turns out storage lipids may play a role in resilience of corals to chronic butterflyfish predation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 9 Dec from 4PM (Australian Eastern summer time)
Andrew Merchant: plant source-sink dynamics using low field NMR
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Davide Siclari: thermal metrics in a warming climate
sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/
I’m excited to announce Sydney Plant Ecophys Group is hosting two talks 16 April from 4PM (Australian Eastern time)
Thomas Roberts: Australian native grass seeds as indigenous grains
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Shreya Veeravelli: NSC storage & allocation in almond crops
sydneyplantecophysiologygroup.wordpress.com/talks/
We’ve all seen pictures of weird #genAI images, well #biochem images are equally confused. Copilot offered to draw isocitrate to ketoglutarate. It failed!
Here copilot offered to compare chloroplast and mitochondrial ETC. Another case of #genAI reinventing biochemistry
Paper led by by @bahar (not on Bluesky) is methodological tour de force: 13C labelling, mass spec, NEXAFS. Nitrogen availability alters the contribution of ex-vivoand in-vivo pathways to carbon formation in particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change
Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…
Soil carbon (C) sequestration depends on the formation of particulate- and mineral-associated organic matter (POM and MAOM). These soil organic matter…
The negative effects of coral loss on fish assemblages are well established, particularly for obligate corallivores. In contrast, the impacts of coral…
Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and nutrient addition, and in-turn, quantify the loss of ecosystem function resulting from species turnover. Further, this project will identify species that contribute the most to function.
