2026.05 New paper on parameterizing stomatal conductance for better hydrological predictions is now online in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. Check it out here!

2026.05 New paper on biomass turnover in Amazon forest is now online in Nature Climate Change. Check it out here!

2026.05 We are funded by NASA Ecohydrology to study vegetation feedback to flash droughts.

2026.04 Yidong and Yanlan attended the 4th Annual Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference in Woods Hole, MA.

2026.03 Yanlan visited University of Texas at Austin and presented a DeFord Lecture: “Plant Responses to Drought Across Scales: From Hydraulics to Resilience”.

2026.03 Yanlan’s Tansley Insight on scaling plant hydraulic traits to predict ecosystem fluxes under drought is now published online in New Phytologist.

2026.02 Yanlan delivered an invited talk at the Biology Colloquium at Harvey Mudd College.

2026.01 Yanlan gave an invited talk on scaling plant hydraulics in the FraLab at Caltech.

2026.01 New paper is now online in Earth’s Future: Climate-driven hydraulic traits shift in natural and planted forests.

2025.12 Our group presented at AGU 2025 in New Orleans, LA.

2025.09 We are excited to join UCLA Geography in January 2026!