Climate change, deforestation, and the demographic future of tropical understory plants

• Abstract: Despite appreciating the importance of photosynthesis to both plant life and the planet more broadly, many of us may never spare a second thought to how photosynthesis has evolved. Over millions of years, plants have expanded into novel habitats, some of which are stressful—stressful enough that they can inhibit efficient photosynthesis. In turn, plants have evolved adaptations via changes to their photosynthetic machinery to cope with those stresses. This talk will introduce some of the marvelous variety of plant photosynthesis, how we think it evolved, and discuss what photosynthetic variation means for people, plants, and the planet.

45 Years of lizard tongues

Using thermal performance curves and population dynamics to improve forecasts of extinction risk