Caroline Lehmann
Savanna ecology + biogeography.
Lover of plants, pickles, data + pastry.
Professor University of Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 🏴🇦🇺🇩🇰🇩🇪
globalgrassygroup.github.io
- Open call for Bothy Project self-directed residencies 2026-27 – at Sweeney’s bothy. A subsidised and truly magical off-grid space to engage with the natural world and your practice. Last there we had phenomenal evening vistas as far as Mingulay. www.bothyproject.com/opportunitie...
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- "Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.
- Written by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social - a great tribute to William's dedication to seek science and environmental policy to care about open ecosystems through critical evaluation of the processes that shape these majestic expensive regions and their biodiversity.
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- Giving blood saves lives. It takes little time from your day and will be transformational for the people who receive it. It's a selfless act for our fellow people and one very much in need. www.blood.co.uk
- So this is super interesting! Increased efficiency of water use does not stimulate tree productivity. Once again i long for a savanna face experiment that isn't simply confounded as a fire exclusion experiment.
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology at Flinders Uni just advertised. Such a great place + city to live in. So nice to see an Adelaide wide cluster of grassy ecology expertise developing that would be v exciting to be part of! Apply!
- Congrats 🎉 Dr Eshelman!! @s-eshelman.bsky.social graduated her PhD having completed fab work on the functional ecology of grasses + grazing. Look out for her papers on grazing lawns, intraspecific trait variation and using herbarium specimens to examine grass life histories across Madagascar. 🥂😊👏
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- Fantastic summary on offsetting - still pervasive in application across many regions of the world and all too easily subject to manipulation www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Friday afternoon in the herbarium ID'ing specimens from a fire experiment in central Zambia while listening to Massive Attack. Joy! Here is the delightful Clematis villosa, a geoxyle, with a wild seedhead. Now realising I saw this species in central Madagascar last November.
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- Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - our paper was born of collective frustration around continual conflation of restoration + reforestation, invariably misrepresenting open ecosystems in global models of ecosystem C storage potential.
- Ecosystems, nature, biodiversity all have profound intrinsic value. We diminish and dismiss that when we entrain ecosystems in service of solving the existential crises of climate change and it is simply unjust to lay that burden on the Global South.
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- A phenomenal review about Edinburgh University and it's role in slavery + colonialism. The more discussion and action this brings the better. Huge thanks to the staff who gave their energy, intellect and time to developing this. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Just coz... Chrysopogon fallax in flower. So hard to get good pics of grasses in flower. This was just over a month ago near Alice Springs.
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- Maybe because they are largely junk - Auditors can’t save carbon offsets | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Out in the heaths of Western Australia - stunning. Might not be peak season but wow. The floral diversity but also the truly crazy variation in leaf form.
- Now might be a time to read Question 7 - a beautiful book about choices and all the seen and unseen connections that flow around them. And, a reminder to tread our world with empathy and kindness. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
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- Doesn't get better than the desert in bloom, with a weekend walking and talking about plants, megafauna and prehistoric Australia.
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- One of the great pleasures of my job - walking through the garden after closing on a spring evening.
- Been staring at my "neglected bin of cold dalek compost" pondering much of this wonderful piece by @frasermacdonald.bsky.social while communing with the family of voles living in it.
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- Amidst all the world crazy, time in the sunny (!) Highlands with our delightfully enthusiastic 2nd year Geography class is quite the antidote. 😎☀️😎☀️
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- Til next time Tana
- When you come downstairs to hit the road at 6.45 to find an integral element missing... one can only hope the wheel returns soon.🤞🤷🍀
- Special few days camped in gallery forest in Central Madagascar. Cynorkis purpurea flowering along the creeks, Sifaka leaping through trees and all microclimate sensors across forest-grassland boundaries still there! 🌍
- Rural Madagascar at its finest today. Vistas of rice paddies, marble outcrops covered in aloes and storm clouds rising. 🌍
- Wonderfully fun afternoon with botanists and ecologists debating classifications of Madagascars ecosystems. We are getting closer to standardising our understanding. Such a wonderful way to see how disciplines inform and support each other.
- Fantastic FunkyBio presentations from @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @adamdevenish.bsky.social @s-eshelman.bsky.social @jess-rickenback.bsky.social at the Savanna Science Network Meeting. Thanks to SANParks for always hosting a brilliantly collegiate conference. Till 2026!
- After a wonderful two weeks in Kruger, crouched among the grasses on the experimental burn plots and incredible experiences watching + listening to the animals, I can say with certainty my capacity to capture those moments remains limited 😂😂😂 from graceful giraffe 🦒 to bugs mimicing a burnt leaf.
- Great opportunity for postdoc fellowships!
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