Mission

• Research in our lab is focused on plant-environment interactions with a special emphasis on exploring factors that determine, enhance or limit water and carbon fluxes
• Projects include work on herbaceous and woody plants, as well as (tropical) forest ecosystems
• Diverse approaches are applied to study the dynamic plant-environment interplay, ranging from detailed measurements with an array of plant sensors (sap flow, stem diameter changes, leaf temperature, chlorophyll fluorescence, photosynthesis, stem respiration,...) across tools from ecosystem science (eddy covariance) to stable isotope biogeochemistry
• Sophisticated models are developed as avenues for improving our understanding on how plants respond to changes in the environments they inhabit
• Special attention goes to the development of new plant-based control and stress detection systems

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