Welcome to the Plant Ecology Modelling Group
We are a research group studying plant ecophysiology and the ways plant adapt to global change through process based vegetation models. We combine ecological biogeochemical knowledge to create better predictions of the Earth’s future.
We are part of the Discipline of Botany in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin. We are part of the Climate + Biodiversity + Water Co-centre and are funded through the Research ireland Frontiers for the Future programme and by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency.
We are a vibrant and international team and take pride in inclusivity and diversity. You can read about our commitment to these values and how we work together in our Code of Conduct.
News
23 - 27. June 2025
Midori attend the first eLTER conference in Tampere, Finland and presented her work on detecting phenology from multiple data sources and models, joining other members of the COST action CLEANFOREST. 
16 - 19. June 2025
the group attended the annual QUINCY developers workshop for a week of science, code, catching up with old friends and making new ones in sunny Berlin. 
2 - 13. June 2025
Gayathri attended the 8th Training Course on New Advances in Land Carbon Cycle Modeling, organised by Cornell University.
10. June 2025
Camille presented a poster on her PhD work at the Mary Anning Conference on Novel Constraints on the Coupling Between the Water and Carbon Cycles at INRAE Bordeaux, France.
12. May 2025
PEM group retreat in the Wicklow mountains. 
9. May 2025
New preprint out in ESS Open Archive, led by Gabriela on modelling leaf resorption in QUINCY.
28. April - 2. May 2025
Lots of actiivty at EGU this year. Gabriela presented a poster on leaf resorption in QUINCY, Camille organised a session on Vegetation Functional Responses to Drought and Other Global Change, while Silvia presents work from the Trait-Tweaks project in an invited talk. 
16. December 2024
First PEM group Christmas lunch! And what a year it has been! So many new faces and exciitng science.
10. December 2024
Silvia presents work on new ways to model plant diversity from the Climate + project at the AGU Fall Meeting 2024 in Washington DC.