“Without EucFACE, prediction models would rely on data gathered from experiments run in the northern hemisphere, which were based on richer soils…” Since its launch in 2012, the iconic EucFACE experiment, based at WSU’s Hawkesbury campus, has exposed a patch of native forest in north-west… Read More »Five Years Of Findings Hint At Australia’s Future Response To Our Changing Atmosphere

Nature Climate Change volume 7, pages279–282 (2017). Abstract: Rising atmospheric CO2 stimulates photosynthesis and productivity of forests, offsetting CO2 emissions1,2. Elevated CO2 experiments in temperate planted forests yielded ∼23% increases in productivity3 over the initial years. Whether similar CO2 stimulation occurs in mature evergreen broadleaved forests on low-phosphorus (P) soils is unknown, largely due… Read More »Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

Gardening Australia Sat 14 Sep 2013. “I’m at the Hawkesbury Campus of the University of Western Sydney and the reason I’m here is because this is where we have some Australian groundbreaking research,” says Jerry. The first area he visits is essentially a surreal eucalypt… Read More »Our changing world