Will changes in root-zone temperature in boreal spring affect recovery of photosynthesis in Picea mariana and Populus tremuloides in a future climate?

With the new year we celebrate new things, and for a young scientist there are few things more exciting, more rewarding or more important than publishing your first paper.

It is for that reason that the first Hot Student Paper of 2012 is by Ph.D. student Emmanuelle Fréchette from the Ensminger lab, who recently published her first paper. This paper, which appeared in recent issue of Tree Physiology, shows that early snow melt due to climate warming could impose physiological stress on some boreal tree species.

Congratulations, Emmanuelle, on this exciting first publication!

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