MONTHLY UPDATES
MONTHLY UPDATES
June-July 2022 (C)
Brigitte is making a gas exchange measurement on two leaves from each of the harvested trees, directly after the tree and branch has been cut.
June-July 2022 (B)
Lots of samples are collected each day on our 1000-tree harvest (20% of the trees in the plantations).
June-July 2022 (A)
Felicien leading the team on branch/leaf level work at the harvest, here at Sigira site.
May 2022 (F)
Olivier is staring up another sap flow measurement campaign on trees in Makera during the dry period, early June to early September.
May 2022 (E)
Myriam and Brigitte measuring gas exchange of leaves on branches cut (and re-cut under water) from freshly harvested trees.
May 2022 (D)
Felicien separating leaves and wood from sampled branches to estimate whole-tree leaf area and mass.
May 2022 (C)
Athanase measuring the fresh mass of branches.
May 2022 (B)
Some trees were small, others BIG!!! Here the stem base of a five year-old Polycias fulva tree in Rubona, together with Johan's sunglasses.
May 2022 (A)
Partial harvest of 20% of the trees in Rwanda TREE (>1000 trees) began on May 23rd and will last for nine weeks, three at each site. Left: Nkuba (cutting trees), right: Bercare (measuring stems).
April 2022
Some of us at the dissertation of Johanna Lethin at the University of Gothenburg. Etienne Zibera (to the right) is visiting Sweden to take the course "Plant ecophysiology in a global change perspective".
March 2022
Installation of soil lysimeter for coming sampling of soil water 18O isotopes to estimate functional rooting depth. Persons working: Etienne Zibera, Göran Wallin and Ntirugulirwa Bonaventure.
January-February 2022
Great start of 2022 with three new publications with Rwanda TREE data:
Manishimwe A, Ntirugulirwa B, Zibera E, Nyirambangutse B, Mujawamariya M, Dusenge ME, Bizuru E, Nsabimana D, Uddling J, Wallin G (2022) Warming responses of leaf morphology are highly variable among tropical tree species. Forests 13:219.
(link: https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020219)
Wittemann M, Anddersson MX, Ntirugulirwa B, Tarvainen L, Wallin G, Uddling J (2022) Temperature acclimation of net photosynthesis and its underlying component processes in four tropical tree species. Tree Physiology.
(link: https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpac002)
Crous K, Uddling J, De Kauwe MG (2022) Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes. New Phytologist.
(link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17951)
December 2021
Etienne Zibera leading the 14th stem growth measurement campaign at all sites, this time also making tree health inspections.
November 2021
See our new paper in New Phytologist: "Handling the heat – photosynthetic thermal stress in tropical trees" by Tarvainen et al.
Link: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17809?af=R
October 2021
A paper with three Rwanda TREE co-authors was recently published in Nature! Our research contributed valuable Nyungwe data on aboveground C stocks for tropical montane forests.
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03728-4?proof=t%25C2%25A0
September 2021
Olivier measuring nighttime sapflow with a portable thermal dissipation probe system, with sensors installed on >100 trees.
August 2021
Paper by Dusenge et al. published in Global Change Biology: Limited thermal acclimation of photosynthesis in tropical montane tree species.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15790
July 2021
Olivier making leaf water potential measurements as part of his hydraulic field measurement campaign.
June 2021
Masts with infra-red sensors for canopy temperature measurements, raised and logging every 15th minute at all sites (here Makera).
June 2021
Myriam and Johan in a good mood after the successful PhD dissertation of Myriam – the first one in the Rwanda TREE protect!
