In early June, Science magazine published a special feature on how plants experience and cope with heat, and how this varies across spatial, temporal, and biological scales. The impacts of rising temperatures and extreme heat on vegetation are critical for ecosystem productivity and resilience, and the ecosystem services on which human society is highly reliant.
While lab members did not have a paper include in the special feature, we did score what might be the next coolest thing: a photograph from the FLIR thermal camera that Andrew and former postdoc Don Aubrecht had mounted on the Niwot Ridge AmeriFlux tower in 2015 (and which ran until 2021) was used in the lead-off article.
Plant temperatures – clearly a hot topic!
