{"id":1211,"date":"2025-06-26T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:58:41","slug":"thermal-image-from-niwot-ridge-camera-published-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Thermal image from Niwot Ridge camera published in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early June, <em>Science<\/em> magazine<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/toc\/science\/388\/6752\"> published a special feature<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plant temperatures &#8211; clearly a hot topic! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-1024x650.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-1024x650.png 1024w, https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-1536x975.png 1536w, https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Richardson_Diehl_intro_image_Science-2048x1300.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thermal image from Niwot Ridge camera published in Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thermal image from Niwot Ridge camera published in Science - The Richardson Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/richardson-lab.nau.edu\/?p=1211\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thermal image from Niwot Ridge camera published in Science - The Richardson Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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