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Research
Explore the group’s research directions and the publications, resources and people connected to them. Remaining demonstration records are labelled individually.

Research theme 01
How do ecosystems respond and adapt to climate change?
Climate variability, environmental extremes, thermal acclimation and ecosystem responses across spatial and temporal scales.
Why it matters
This direction connects the group’s interest in climate adaptation and extremes with evidence about photosynthesis and greenhouse-gas responses.
Ecosystem responses
View all outputsEcosystem responses to changing environmental conditions, including thermal acclimation and responses assessed under climate scenarios.
Thermal acclimation
Adjustment of ecosystem and canopy photosynthetic responses to temperature.
View all outputsClimate change scenarios
Ecosystem responses evaluated under explicit future climate scenarios.
View all outputsClimate effects
View all outputsClimate implications of ecosystem carbon uptake and greenhouse-gas emissions, with methods and time scales stated by each study.
Climate variabilityDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: organise future questions about climate variability and ecological observations. This does not describe a confirmed project or result.
Contributions
- Demo outline: connect observations and questions in a shared research framework.
Patterns across scalesDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: reserve space for observations at different scales without claiming a particular finding or method.
Contributions
- Demo outline: describe the evidence and scale of a future verified contribution.
Demo synthesis and open questionsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: collect future synthesis and open questions after the group's research scope and evidence are confirmed.
Contributions
- Demo outline: distinguish established evidence from questions for future work.
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Research theme 02
How does water availability shape ecosystem photosynthesis?
Plant water relations, soil moisture constraints and groundwater–vegetation interactions connect hydrology with ecosystem carbon uptake.
Why it matters
Distinguishing water constraints at plant, soil and landscape scales helps organise evidence about when and where water availability matters.
Plant water relations
View all outputsConnections between plant function, soil water availability and water stress.
Soil moisture stress
Soil-water constraints on vegetation function and ecosystem photosynthesis.
View all outputsGroundwater and vegetation
View all outputsGroundwater availability and its relationship with vegetation function and ecosystem photosynthesis.
Catchment processesDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: provide a separate place for future catchment context, verified contributions and related records.
Contributions
- Demo outline: connect an independently verified result with the question it addresses.
River and groundwater linksDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: reserve a future description of river and groundwater questions without asserting a mechanism or project.
Contributions
- Demo outline: state the scope and evidence of a confirmed water-related contribution.
Demo synthesis and open questionsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: group future synthesis and open questions once the scientific scope is confirmed.
Contributions
- Demo outline: connect open questions to the observations needed to address them.
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Research theme 03
How do carbon processes inform nature-based climate solutions?
Photosynthesis, carbon exchange and greenhouse-gas production across vegetation, wetlands and soils, together with their implications for climate mitigation.
Why it matters
Carbon uptake and greenhouse-gas release must be considered together when interpreting ecosystem climate effects. Laboratory production, field fluxes and reviews remain distinct forms of evidence.
Vegetation function
View all outputsVegetation carbon uptake and the environmental controls on ecosystem photosynthesis.
Ecosystem photosynthesis
Canopy- and ecosystem-scale photosynthetic activity, its environmental controls and acclimation.
View all outputsWetland greenhouse gases
View all outputsCarbon dioxide and methane exchange in natural wetlands, mangroves and aquaculture systems.
Mangroves
Carbon dioxide and methane exchange, variability and environmental controls in mangrove ecosystems.
View all outputsAquaculture ponds
Ecosystem gas exchange in aquaculture ponds, including brackish fishponds.
View all outputsNatural wetlands
Greenhouse-gas exchange from natural wetlands across space, time and environmental scenarios.
View all outputsNature-based climate solutions
View all outputsClimate implications of ecosystem conservation and management, accounting for carbon uptake and greenhouse-gas emissions.
Coastal wetland conservation
Conservation and land-use comparisons involving coastal wetlands and their carbon and greenhouse-gas balances.
View all outputsSoil greenhouse gases
View all outputsProduction and exchange of greenhouse gases in soils, distinguishing laboratory and field evidence.
Abiotic production
Non-biological greenhouse-gas production mechanisms studied under specified experimental conditions.
View all outputsMethane production
View all outputsMethane sources and production pathways across organisms and environments.
Eukaryotic sources
Methane production and emission associated with plants, animals and fungi, including unresolved mechanisms discussed in reviews.
View all outputsCarbon and energy exchangeDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: show a future carbon-and-energy question with its context and explicitly linked example outputs.
Contributions
- Demo outline: introduce the measurements used to frame a carbon-exchange question.
Environmental constraintsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: illustrate how a future environmental context can have its own supporting outputs, resources and updates.
Contributions
- Demo outline: describe environmental context without treating an untested explanation as a result.
Demo synthesis and open questionsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: collect synthesis and open questions after the group's findings and scientific framing are established.
Contributions
- Demo outline: separate observed patterns, interpretations and future questions.
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Research theme 04
How can observations, models and AI explain ecosystem processes?
Flux and Earth observations, process-based modelling, explainable artificial intelligence and causal analysis provide complementary research approaches.
Why it matters
Methods are indexed according to their documented use in each study, keeping prediction, interpretation and causal analysis distinct.
Flux observations
View all outputsMeasurements of ecosystem–atmosphere exchanges and their temporal and environmental variation.
Eddy covariance
Eddy-covariance observations of ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide, methane and water-vapour exchange.
View all outputsModels and uncertainty
View all outputsProcess-based ecosystem modelling and the representation of environmental responses and uncertainty.
Process-based modelling
Process-based models of photosynthesis, ecosystem carbon exchange and greenhouse-gas responses.
View all outputsExplainable AI and causal analysis
View all outputsDocumented applications combining interpretable machine learning with causal-guided analysis of ecosystem processes.
Earth observationsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: organise a future observation-based question and its context without claiming a verified dataset or result.
Contributions
- Demo outline: show how an observation or model fits into a research question.
Reproducible analysisDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: reserve space for future verified workflows, their limitations and independently linked resources.
Contributions
- Demo outline: describe reproducibility using confirmed code, inputs and documented steps.
Demo synthesis and open questionsDemo
View all outputsDemo subtopic: collect future synthesis and unanswered questions after the actual research scope is confirmed.
Contributions
- Demo outline: identify open questions while preserving the limits of available evidence.