His website has some useful resources including details on making leaf skeleton, and his blog has fascinating articles about leaves from the cost of producing veins and their function to colour change to how plants survive with only the occasional flash of sunlight through the dense canopy above.
Friday 12 August 2011
12th August 2011 - 1 Can Leaf Veins Be Used To Predict Climate?
Benjamin Blonder, an ecology graduate student, working with his advisor Brian Enquist at the University of Arizona in Tucson is examining the connection between the veins in leaves and climate. Preliminary results from his models predict temperature and precipitation. I'll be very interested to see if these preliminary results hold up when tested more widely and whether they can be extrapolated to accurately determine climate from fossil records, as he suggests.
His website has some useful resources including details on making leaf skeleton, and his blog has fascinating articles about leaves from the cost of producing veins and their function to colour change to how plants survive with only the occasional flash of sunlight through the dense canopy above.
His website has some useful resources including details on making leaf skeleton, and his blog has fascinating articles about leaves from the cost of producing veins and their function to colour change to how plants survive with only the occasional flash of sunlight through the dense canopy above.
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