Profile avatar
kalimiddleby.bsky.social
Postdoc at James Cook University and Ernst Mayr Research Fellow at STRI. Interested in forest ecology, plant physiology, heat stress, and rainforest conservation 🌿
21 posts 1,354 followers 232 following
Getting Started
Conversation Starter
Posts 6 Comments 17

🔥Can heatwaves leave a thermal leaky legacy?🔥 Check out our latest paper on gmin dynamics during and after thermal stress🍃📄 Extremely proud of my student Viviane! Special thanks to @hcochard.bsky.social @torresruizjm.bsky.social @martijnslot.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/plph...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Check out our new article just out in The Conversation highlighting the effects of warming leaves +4°C in tropical trees. 🌿🌡️ theconversation.com/study-shows-...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

How do tropical rainforest trees respond to warming? 🌡️🌿We experimentally warmed canopy leaves by 4°C for 8 months and found significant declines in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance, with no shift in Topt. Read the new paper, led by Kristine Crous here: shorturl.at/AVTOk

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Time to introduce myself! Recently, I defended my thesis titled "Patterns and Drivers of Leaf Thermoregulation in Rainforest Trees of the Australian Wet Tropics" where I focused on the role of within-species acclimation and adaptation on leaf temperature. Here’s a little summary of what went on…

submitted 105 days ago • 3 comments

Why am I a plant ecophysiologist? 7 years ago, I sat above the trees in a mature tropical rainforest and enter an entirely new world. Thanks to the Daintree Rainforest Observatory's canopy access crane. Now our much loved research station is under financial threat www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments