The Saleska Lab

Saleska lab intro film

Welcome to the Saleska Lab! Enjoy our introductory film and learn how we do ecology and ecosystem science to understand the fate of the planet under climate change. Film Credits page.

Our research sites

Amazon
Studying forest-atmosphere exchanges in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
Abisko, Sweden
Deciphering methane fluxes along an arctic permafrost thaw gradient
Harvard Forest
Partitioning whole-ecosystem CO2 fluxes to understand mechanisms of carbon sequestration in a temperate forest
Biosphere 2
A laboratory for the study of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange

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Lab News

7/6/2016 – Jin Wu’s work on tropical leaf traits, spectra and age out in New Phytologist
Showing that leaf spectra can predict leaf ages from leaf reflectance spectra across two contrasting forests in Peru and Brazil and across diverse canopy environments. This work suggests that fundamental rules link leaf traits to leaf environments, and constrain the development of optically-detectable leaf traits and allow for general prediction of leaf age from spectra across species, sites and canopy environments.
6/29/2016 – Rick Wehr’s research on isotopic partitioning of NEE is out in Nature
Article title: Seasonality of temperate forest photosynthesis and daytime respiration Overturning textbook knowledge, Rick Wehr from the Saleskalab, working with colleagues from Harvard University, Woods hole, and Aerodyne research, discovered that the trees “exhale” (or respire) less carbon dioxide during the day than previously thought, and that forest photosynthesis doesn’t decline over the course of(...)
3/17/2016: We debate Doug Morton & Co in Nature on “Dry-season greening of Amazon forests”
The bottom line: “the primary substantive finding of Morton et al. of consistent canopy structure and greenness is incorrect.”
2/26/2016: Saleska Lab gets the cover of Science with paper by Jin Wu, Loren Albert, et al.
Article title: Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

Saleska lab intro film

Our research sites

Amazon

Abisko, Sweden

Harvard Forest

Biosphere 2

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