How Ancient Vegetation Shaped Water Availability
A new paper by Will Matthaeus, Jenny McElwain, and colleagues, published in Global Ecology & Biogeography, examines how vegetation change influenced water balance during the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age.…
Greenland fossils uncover ancient climate crisis
We are delighted to share a new paper from our group: “Census collection of two fossil plant localities in Jameson Land, East Greenland supports regional ecological turnover and diversity loss at the…
Plant-Climate Interaction Lab Research Symposium 2025
In July, the Plant-Climate Interaction Lab hosted a highly successful Research Symposium, where lab members presented their current research, shared insights, and discussed future directions. The…
Professor Jennifer McElwain Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
We are proud to announce that Professor Jennifer McElwain, Principal Investigator at the PlantClimateLab and Chair of Botany in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences, has been elected a…
Plant-Climate Interaction Lab in Wicklow Mountains
This summer, the Plant-Climate Interaction Lab spent a day in the Wicklow Mountains to deepen our understanding of Irish upland ecosystems. Guided by Kamila, our route took us up Tonelagee, one of…
Launching the Future of Paleoecology
In June 2025, ERC-TERRAFORM Postdoctoral Research Fellow William J. Matthaeus, alongside his NSF-FIXER coinvestigators Jonathan P. Wilson (Haverford College), Wray Jones, Joseph D. White (Baylor…