报告题目：Detecting and Attributing Climate Change Effects on Vegetation
主讲人：Belinda E. Medlyn 院士
主持人：夏建阳 教授
讲座时间：2025年10月10日 10:00 am
讲座地点：闵行校区资环楼148报告厅
主办单位：生态与环境科学学院
报告人简介：
Belinda E. Medlyn is a Distinguished Professor at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University (Australia), with decades of work in ecological environment and plant science—internationally renowned for groundbreaking research on atmospheric CO₂-ecosystem interactions and plant physiological modeling. She holds a 1989 First-Class Honours BSc (Mathematics) from the University of Adelaide and a 1996 PhD from the University of New South Wales, having previously worked at institutions like the University of Edinburgh (UK), INRA (France), and Macquarie University (Australia); since 2015, she has served at Western Sydney University (Professor, Theme Leader of Ecosystem Function and Integration) and became Distinguished Professor in 2019. A key researcher in atmospheric CO₂’s impacts on plants/ecosystems and ecosystem modeling, she has over 200 high-impact papers and 7 book chapters, with honors including Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2018–2024), 2022 Ralph Slatyer Medal, 2023 Australian Academy of Science Fellowship, 2024 University of Barcelona Honorary Doctorate, and ARC Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellowship. She also edits New Phytologist, sits on Global Change Biology’s Editorial Advisory Board, chairs TERN’s Scientific Advisory Board (since 2021), and joins the Land Life Company’s Scientific Advisory Board and Oceania Ecological Forecasting Initiative Committee (since 2022) to advance global ecological research strategy.
报告内容简介：
In 2025, we are already deep into the trajectory of climate change, with atmospheric CO2 concentrations having risen by 50%, and global temperatures having risen by over 1 degree Celsius, since pre-industrial times. Understanding how these changes have already impacted on the terrestrial biosphere should give us significant insight into what further changes may be expected in the decades to come, and would allow us to test and improve our predictive models of the terrestrial carbon cycle. However, identifying the changes that have already occurred is not straightforward. Detecting change in an inherently dynamic system is challenging, as is attributing change to climatic vs other anthropogenic drivers. In this talk I will use a series of illustrative examples from the Australian continent to examine our current understanding of change in terrestrial vegetation function and distribution, and discuss the extent to which we can detect and attribute the effects of climate change.
