PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY @ MACALESTER
  • Mary Heskel
  • Team
  • Research
    • Temperature response of dark respiration: Models and experiments
    • Leaf respiration in the light
    • Leaf-to-canopy scaling of carbon exchange, fluorescence, and phenology
    • Environmental controls on gas exchange in Arctic tundra plants
    • Carbon cycling in Arabidopsis ecotypes
    • Canopy sampling!
  • Teaching
  • Publications
RESEARCH

Our research answers questions about plant responses to the environment across a variable and changing world. Mary focuses primarily on carbon cycling in leaves—respiration and photosynthesis—how these fluxes vary across different settings and different species, and the impact of these changes on the greater ecosystem. 
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​Modeling the temperature response of respiration

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Light inhibition of leaf respiration

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Environmental controls on Arctic plant gas exchange 






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​Phenology & forest carbon exchange



...and how exactly do you get leaves down from the top of the canopy? 

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  • Mary Heskel
  • Team
  • Research
    • Temperature response of dark respiration: Models and experiments
    • Leaf respiration in the light
    • Leaf-to-canopy scaling of carbon exchange, fluorescence, and phenology
    • Environmental controls on gas exchange in Arctic tundra plants
    • Carbon cycling in Arabidopsis ecotypes
    • Canopy sampling!
  • Teaching
  • Publications