The research philosophy at Treehouse is to build bottom up towards climate resilience, i.e., first understanding how components of an ecosystem function, integrating those components to quantitatively predict emergent ecosystem behaviours, and using this knowledge to design the best course of climate action. Research is strongly interdisciplinary, cutting across several fields and borrowing tools and techniques from each of them. It is organized under three core verticals as follows.
How do individual organisms, including humans, respond and adapt to environmental change?
What are the emergent phenomena in complex systems arising from the interactions of individuals?
How can we collaborate with diverse stakeholders to craft actionable climate solutions?
Plant-FATE is an eco-evolutionary vegetation model that accounts for the adaptations of individual plants, plant species, and multi-species communities to climate change at multiple temporal and organizational scales. The model integrates physiological, ecological, and evolutionary processes to predict the responses of vegetation to environmental changes.
Key Features of PlantFATE include:
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1 Jan 2025. Jaideep joins the Centre for Climate Studies, IIT Bombay.
