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Overview

Kristine Y. Crous is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and focuses on environmental and biological sciences. The scientist's work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The research interests of Kristine Y. Crous cover several main topics: Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest ecology and management, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant and animal studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kristine Y. Crous include:

  • Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes, 2022, New Phytologist
  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment, 2020, Nature
  • Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds, 2023, Nature
  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors associated with the scientist include:

  • Belinda E. Medlyn
  • David S. Ellsworth
  • Peter B. Reich
  • Mingkai Jiang
  • Craig V. M. Barton

Kristine Y. Crous has published extensively in several scientific venues, notably:

  • New Phytologist
  • Tree Physiology
  • Nature
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;Derek Eamus;David S. Ellsworth

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Soenke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

    John E Drake;John E Drake;Mark G Tjoelker;Angelica Varhammar;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale

    Dushan P. Kumarathunge;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

    David S. Ellsworth;Ian C. Anderson;Kristine Y. Crous;Julia Cooke

  • Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment.

    Nicholas G. Smith;Nicholas G. Smith;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice;Han Wang

  • Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes

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  • A test of the ‘one‐point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Yan-Shih Lin;Ian J. Wright;Belinda E. Medlyn

  • Leaf day respiration: low CO2 flux but high significance for metabolism and carbon balance

    Guillaume Tcherkez;Paul P Gauthier;Thomas N Buckley;Florian A Busch

  • Elevated CO2 affects photosynthetic responses in canopy pine and subcanopy deciduous trees over 10 years: a synthesis from Duke FACE

    David S Ellsworth;Richard Thomas;Kristine Y Crous;Sari Palmroth

  • The capacity to cope with climate warming declines from temperate to tropical latitudes in two widely distributed Eucalyptus species

    John E. Drake;Michael J. Aspinwall;Sebastian Pfautsch;Paul D. Rymer

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Photosynthesis of temperate Eucalyptus globulus trees outside their native range has limited adjustment to elevated CO2 and climate warming

    Kristine Y Crous;Kristine Y Crous;Audrey G Quentin;Audrey G Quentin;Yan-Shih Lin;Yan-Shih Lin;Belinda E Medlyn

  • Is phosphorus limiting in a mature Eucalyptus woodland? Phosphorus fertilisation stimulates stem growth

    Kristine Y Crous;Anna Osvaldsson;Anna Osvaldsson;David S Ellsworth

  • Seasonal acclimation of leaf respiration in Eucalyptus saligna trees : impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2 and summer drought

    Kristine Y. Crous;Joana Zaragoza-Castells;Markus Löw;David S. Ellsworth

  • Canopy position affects the relationships between leaf respiration and associated traits in a tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland.

    Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Danielle Creek;Kristine Y. Crous;Shuang Xiang;Shuang Xiang

  • Phosphorus recycling in photorespiration maintains high photosynthetic capacity in woody species

    David S. Ellsworth;Kristine Y. Crous;Hans Lambers;Julia Cooke;Julia Cooke

  • Canopy leaf area of a mature evergreen Eucalyptus woodland does not respond to elevated atmospheric [CO2] but tracks water availability.

    Remko A. Duursma;Teresa E. Gimeno;Teresa E. Gimeno;Matthias M. Boer;Kristine Y. Crous

  • Conserved stomatal behaviour under elevated CO2 and varying water availability in a mature woodland

    Teresa E. Gimeno;Teresa E. Gimeno;Kristine Y. Crous;Julia Cooke;Julia Cooke;Anthony P. O'Grady

  • Using models to guide field experiments: a priori predictions for the CO2 response of a nutrient- and water-limited native Eucalypt woodland.

    Belinda E. Medlyn;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Sönke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Elevated CO2 concentration affects leaf photosynthesis–nitrogen relationships in Pinus taeda over nine years in FACE

    Kristine Y. Crous;Michael B. Walters;David S. Ellsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Ellsworth
David S. Ellsworth Western Sydney University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University
Mark G. Tjoelker
Mark G. Tjoelker Western Sydney University
Teresa E. Gimeno
Teresa E. Gimeno Basque Centre for Climate Change
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Owen K. Atkin
Owen K. Atkin Australian National University
Craig V. M. Barton
Craig V. M. Barton Western Sydney University
Remko A. Duursma
Remko A. Duursma Western Sydney University
Oula Ghannoum
Oula Ghannoum Western Sydney University

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