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
12. Janaury 2026
New preprint out in EGUsphere, led by Josua on modelling end of season leaf turnover in grasslands using QUINCY.
8. December 2025
Group Christmas lunch. 
4. December 2025
Josua wins the Golden Spoon in the annual Botany Bakeoff with a cake isnpired by his work on modelling grasslands. 
2. December 2025
Silvia presents group work at the launch of ICOS Ireland. 
20. November 2026
New preprint out in bioRxiv, led by Midori on using models as an in sillico experiment to benchmark phenological detection methods.
22. September 2025
Kick off meeting for the E-PATH project at Teagasc Oak Park. 
17 - 19. September 2025
Gayathri and Silvia attend the annual symposium of the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water at Queens University Belfast. Gayathri presents a poster on her work on predicting plant traits globally using machine learning.
25. August 2025
Welcome to new group member Carmen Watkins! Carmen will be working on forecasting tree resistance t pathogens, part of the E-PATH project.
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. 