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Our research group investigates the functioning of plants and ecosystems. We work at biochemical through to ecosystem scales and use a variety of plants and ecosystems rather than restricting ourselves to "model species" or "model ecosystems". Full details of research projects, publications and funding can be found by following the links at the left. A few of our research interests are:

• ecosystem cycles of water, nutrients and trace gases
• adaptation and acclimation of plants to their environment
• how plants capture and use resources such as CO₂, water, nutrients and light
• signalling of abiotic stresses within plants
• how plants cope with temporally variable ("pulsed") supplies of water and nutrients

We are based in laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation at the University of Sydney. Our group has a series of active field and laboratory experiments and ventures into the field on a regular basis.

Please contact us if you are an Australian or NZ student enthused by any of these broad themes and want to do honours or a PhD.

National and international collaboration

We collaborate with research groups in Australia, Canada, France and Germany. The main institutions we collaborate with are:

• Warra long-term ecological research (LTER) (Tasmania, Australia)
• Centre for Forest Biology (University of Victoria, BC, Canada)
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Nancy, France)
• Casiroz O₃ fumigation field site (TU Munich, Germany)
• ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function (based at Macquarie Uni, Sydney)

Snapshot: French-Australian Science and Technology (FAST) collaboration

This collaborative project is investigating the controls and measurement of plant water-use efficiency.Project partners:

• Australia: UNSW
• France: CNRS-CEA, INRA, Universite Henri Poincare

Meeting schedule:

• May 2007, Nancy (France)
• November 2007, Sydney (Australia)
• April 2008, Sydney (Australia)

For further details of this project please follow the FAST link at left.

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