Seasonality paper accepted in Functional Plant Biology!

Last week, our manuscript on the influence of seasonal timing, long-term elevated growth temperature, and short-term temperature variability on leaf-level respiration was accepted by Functional Plant Biology. This manuscript presents data collected by myself and Danielle Bitterman (then an undergraduate at Columbia University, and now a medical student at New York University) during the tundra growing season of 2010. We made daily measurements of photosynthesis, respiration (in the dark and light, as estimated by the Kok effect - see below post), and short-term thermal response of respiration to temperature. Using environmental data (mean daily light levels, precipitation, ambient temperature, and relative humidity), we examined the response of gas exchange and leaf traits (nitrogen, leaf thickness) to seasonal timing and the surrounding abiotic variables. 

This is the fourth publication from my dissertation - hopefully one more will be in shape for resubmission by the end of 2013. The manuscript isn't copy-edited yet  - but the following links to the abstract: 

http://www.publish.csiro.au/view/journals/dsp_journals_pip_abstract_Scholar1.cfm?nid=102&pip=FP13137