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The paper "From hydraulic root architecture models to macroscopic representations of root hydraulics in soil water flow and land surface models" by Jan Vanderborght, Valentin Couvreur, Felicien Meunier, Andrea Schnepf, Harry Vereecken, Martin Bouda, and Mathieu Javaux was awarded the distinction...

Ces collections proviennent principalement d’Afrique et ont été constituées par d’anciens professeurs de la faculté des sciences agronomiques de l’Université catholique de Louvain. Durant l’été 2022, un important travail de tri et d’inventaire a été effectué dans la partie « herbarium » par...

With global warming, climate zones are projected to shift poleward, and the frequency and intensity of droughts to increase, driving threats to crop production and ecosystems. Plant hydraulic traits play major roles in coping with such droughts, and process-based plant hydraulics (water flowing...

The Arctic is currently transitioning toward a new climatic state that will be characterized by seasonally sea-ice-free conditions almost every year from the 2050s, with widespread ecological, climatic, and societal consequences. There is growing evidence that the future summer sea ice retreat...