Stomata close to maximize transpiration ?

This is the talk I am going  on EGU 2026 and I co-authored with Concetta D'Amato.  It talks about the complexity behind the plant reactions to various environmental factors and the interactions that control stomata openings. 

The slides of the talk can be found here.  The various figures were created within Jupyter Notebooks that are here with the helps of Claude. Please also consider to watch my other presentation on a new statistical theory on the dynamics of soil water in vadose zone, also presented at EGU 2026. This latter presentation is here. 

Every breath you take

I found these photographies by Robert Dash of stomata and I could not avoid to share them in this blog. The collections of photo are, at least two:

"Show me the carbon" 

"Every Breath you take"

They were taken with an electronic microscope but preserve artistic values. Clicking on the figures you are redirected to the whole collection.