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Is the cost of defense paid by increasing photosynthetic productivity? If so, how does the tree handle the associated water loss? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/fc3542c1-b7b7-47ba-adc1-a8b9bfa19359/c39706bc-3d52-449c-b63d-c542abac0d99.JPG Research “Strongly encouraging” a Crematogaster mimosae ant colony to take over a neighboring tree artificially cleared of its former Tetraponera penzigi colony. Fortunately, acacia trees are flexible and the ants can’t chew through rope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/a20e8857-7e4f-4ef7-8350-12643ba63723/IMG_2728.jpg Research - Make it stand out With high winds, elephant patrols, and tricky leaf shapes, it’s not often that we record a leaf CO2-assimilation response curve with no hands! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/2910b81f-867a-4383-8fb9-bf7023749844/IMG_9082.jpg Research - Make it stand out So far from home and the mother tree, whistling acacia saplings yet produce leaves with similar photosynthetic patterns as their mother! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/1726525192201-61UKMCQPS679YC4US94U/9500d752-d20a-4886-a226-a47e6ee359b8.jpg Research - Make it stand out A whistling acacia mid-excavation: he’s dead, Jim. 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Take a load off Showcasing how to use the (stunningly portable) CIRAS-3 photosynthesis meter during the UF in Kenya 2022 field course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/1726606775664-HQV11NSQ3NEGQH061DB1/IMG_4938.JPEG Teaching & Mentoring - Manyatta visit Visiting a Maasai manyatta, where students learn about sustainable pastoralism in the semi-arid Laikipia Plateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/1726606777606-8FY5HSBD7S2HOAHS8CDI/IMG_4977.JPEG Teaching & Mentoring - Student Research Projects UF students investigate plant leaf physiology changes in periodically burned black cotton savannas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/1726606777896-2YJMRKDBWXHU6RRQJDV8/IMG_7090.JPEG Teaching & Mentoring - Prepping another course instrument! Breaking out a leaf water stress meter from PMS Instruments in preparation for another Mpala field school in 2023! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5723e99c07eaa04b685dcdb3/c7de2771-9d54-4348-9af1-e2aba1827c05/1716204817632.jpeg Teaching & Mentoring http://www.savannaecology.com/fun-media daily 0.75 2024-10-22 http://www.savannaecology.com/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390597413198-XUEB2J3138YBEXDCIMC0/tumblr_migjb4LxOB1rkz363o2_1280.jpg Take Action http://www.savannaecology.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390928870858-4D9B6T9WGP8017NSS9W3/topography.jpg Read Me