Global Ecohydrology

 In our November REALM meeting, we covered recent research under the theme of global ecohydrology. We were delighted to have two guest speakers, Dr Thanos Paschalis from the department of civil and environmental engineering, ICL and Dr Manon Sabot, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales, currently at the University of Bristol …

Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics. By Jaideep Joshi

Terrestrial plants remove a whopping 125 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere every year by photosynthesis – that’s approximately the weight of a billion blue whales. While much of this carbon makes it back into the atmosphere, net carbon removal still amounts to 2.6 gigatons – a third of our annual fossil fuel emissions. The …