Adam West
@adamgwest
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Plant Ecophysiologist. Interests: Plants, people, climate, science education. Works at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town.
Cape Town
Joined September 2014
New paper on "Unpacking satellite pixels". Using a multiyear dataset from the Fynbos Biome, we show that UAVs allow us to reveal the drought and phenological responses of shallow- versus deep-rooted shrubs that are otherwise invisible from satellites.
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Here's to persistence!😅 This paper was conceived 12yrs ago. So happy to see it published at last. A neat, technically difficult study, that considerably expands our understanding of fynbos plant responses to moisture stress.
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Drones improve our ability to detect post-fire recovery in shrublands, especially for the important grassy component of these ecosystems. Powerful tool when combined with ground surveys (and it is fun too)! @JasperSlingsby @BioSciUCT @UCT_Research
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Such a cool explanation of a decade-old puzzle in the CFR. Male and female restios differ in water use efficiency due to phenology, not physiology. Males get a head start, growing when hot and dry, to be ready with pollen when females mature. @skelrob
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Should it be renamed the "fynroot" biome? Our new paper in PNAS, led by Mingzhen Lu, shows that the fynbos keeps out the forest by having the thinnest roots in the world. @jasperslingsby @UCT_Research @skelrob @mingzhen_lu
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New paper just out: Does drought limit resprouter recruitment in Erica? A test using seeder and resprouter seedlings of Erica coccinea.
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From the ashes: historical botanic photos destroyed in Cape Town fire resurrected
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Just out: Drought and desiccation tolerance in campos rupestres. Really nice to see side-by-side pics from this study and our fynbos drought work, showing the common design. And a reminder of just how much work these drought experiments are! 😅
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RT @ResAltwegg: Experimental evidence that reseeders and resprouters react quite different to changed rainfall seasonality @adamgwest @Plan…
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RT @ColvinH2O: Understanding our groundwater in the Mother City Great help for borehole owners #CitizenScience ✊🏽…
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Our paper on plasticity vs conservatism of fynbos and renosterveld shrublands to rainfall seasonality is just out. Product of collaboration with @NCCEnviron @DrieKuilen @ACCESSCOE and years of hard work from PhD student Justin van Blerk 👏👏👏 @ResAltwegg
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What a great video. Well worth 6mins of your time. Are #grasshuggers a thing yet? They should be.
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Mailed it! Our new paper on a quick, cost-effective return mail campaign revealing two tap water worlds (surface versus groundwater) across South Africa has just come out at @scireports @BIOSciUCT @ResAltwegg @JasperSlingsby @bumbanian
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Postdoc position available at UCT - "Advancing our understanding of plant hydraulic function in the GCFR". Deadline: 31st Aug, 2019. For further information:
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New paper just out showing branching has little impact on hydraulic efficiency. Rethinking the sexual dimorphism paradigm in Leucadendron @thePeerJ #Ecology #PlantScience @adam_roddy
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Thanks to @DataCamp for providing academic access to their fantastic learning platform for R for my Global Change Ecology class. Check out
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Interested in drought ecophysiology and working in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world?
Postdoc position in remote sensing, statistical or physiological ecology @SEEC_UCT with @ResAltwegg @vernonvisser @adamgwest and I. Apply now! @SAEON_GSN @Saeonews @UCT_news @CapeRUser
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