On Tuesday, 3 November, Nate McDowell, professor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) will present his research on the survival mechanisms of trees subjected to drought. More specifically, he will address the following question: « Why do some trees survive drought will others die? ». The title of his conference is:

“Accelerating global forest mortality”
Tuesday 3 November
13h00 — main conference room
INRA Nancy-Lorraine Center
Champenoux

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McDowell Lab Research — Our group is focused on quantifying mechanisms that control the balance between carbon uptake and water lost at the leaf, whole plant, and ecosystem scales.  This theme is applied to numerous questions that are of national and international consequence, including climate change and climate variability, forest management and disturbance impacts on ecosystems.  We use numerous tools from the plant physiology and ecosystem ecology backgrounds, including water relations tools such as continuous sap flow and water potential measurements, hand-held photosynthesis measurements, and stable isotope measurements.

Read more about Nate McDowell’s research — Vegetation Dynamics Research Lab at LANL