under conceiving Useful Links Asking good questions: A well-structured and -explained essay Developing-research-questions: Contains real examples How can I choose a good topic for my research paper?: Contains a video How to write a research question: Contains visual contents and is easy to read Developing strong research questions: Contains summary tables

17 December, 2019 (Smith-Martin, NPH, Liana) Smith‐Martin, C.M., Xu, X., Medvigy, D., Schnitzer, S.A. and Powers, J.S. (2019), Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees. New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.16275 Question: Do mature lianas invest less biomass in stems compared to trees? The authors tried to compare the investment strategy between lianas and trees. Do juveniles follow the same allocation patterns as mature individuals?

Which information do I have to mine from a paper for developing a research question? Every day, I receive email alerts from journals or paper-searching websites. I skim through the title list in the alerts and select ones including keywords that I am interested in. In turn, I read the abstract to grasp what the paper is about and add it to my read-later folder if I feel it is interesting.

2019. 12. 08. 하루 하나씩 Dropbox에 저장된 서평(.docx)을 블로그에 옮기고 있다. 옮기는 방식은 다음과 같다 : Git의 블로그 저장소에 .md 파일 생성 옮기려

블로그를 시작한다. 서평, 논문 리뷰, 생각 등 남겨두고 싶은 것들을 그냥 흘려보내지 않기 위함이 첫째다. 그리고 기록을 함으로써 생각을 구체적으로 정리할 수 있을 것

7 December, 2019 (Bar, NPH, Fire) Bär, A., Michaletz, S.T. and Mayr, S. (2019), Fire effects on tree physiology. New Phytologist, 223: 1728-1741. doi:10.1111/nph.15871 My research group at NIFOS was invited to write a research paper for a special issue of a journal. We decided to write a paper about the lagged browning after the forest fire at April 2019. I wrote about how forest fire affects an individual tree’s physiology, referring majorly to this paper.

Intro 이 책은 좋은 국내 과학 저서를 여러 권 소개해준다는 점에서 가치 있다. 또한 글 쓸 때 고려해볼만한 기본적이면서도 유용한 지침들도 함께 담겨있다. 그냥 지나칠 수 없는

Intro 나는 여러 권의 글쓰기 관련 책을 읽었다. 그 중 한 권을 추천한다면 영문 도서는 Joshua Schimel의 “Writing Science”를, 한글 도서는 이 책을 추천

12 August, 2019 (Resco de Dios, AFM, FMC) Resco de Dios, V., Fellows, A.W., Nolan, R.H., Boer, M.M., Bradstock, R.A., Domingo, F. and Goulden, M.L. (2015). A semi-mechanistic model for predicting the moisture content of fine litter. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 203, 64-73. I read this paper to get some hints for my fuel moisture research at NIFOS. This paper developed a semi-mechanistic model in which fuel moisture content (FMC) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) were exponentially related.

22 June, 2019 (Vinodkumar, AFM, SMC) Vinodkumar and Dharssi (2019). Evaluation and calibration of a high-resolution soil moisture product for wildfire prediction and management. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 264, 27-39. This paper can be a good guide for both of my researches at SNU and NIFOS. This paper used the JULES to predict soil moisture deficit (SMD), which is similar to the object of the study at SNU. On the other hand, the purpose of SMD prediction was to imporve a fire danger index, which is the same as my research at NIFOS.

15 June, 2019 (Berry, pce, FWU) Berry, Z.C., Emery, N.C., Gotsch, S.G., Goldsmith, G.R. (2019). Foliar water uptake: Processes, pathways, and integration into plant water budgets. Plant, Cell and Environment, 42, 410-423. As I saw foliar water uptake (FWU) in alert lists sometimes, I became curious about the process. So I read this paper. FWU was observed about 400 years ago (1727), but it seems like relatively new and immatured field.

8 June, 2019 (Hartmann, NPH, Mortality) Hartmann, H., Moura, C.F., Anderegg, W.R.L., Ruehr, N.K., Salmon, Y., Allen, C.D., Arndt, S.K., Breshears, D.D., Davi, H. and Galbraith, D. (2018). Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality. New Phytologist, 218(1), 15-28. This paper suggests some research frontiers (questions) about plant responses to drought. But, rather than the suggestions, I was interested in the topic of Box 1: definition of death for plants.

26 May, 2019 (Li, GCB, SIF) Li, X., Xiao, J., He, B., Altaf Arain, M., Beringer, J., Desai, A.R., Emmel, C., Hollinger, D.Y., Krasnova, A., Mammarella, I., Noe, S.M., Ortiz, P.S., Rey-Sanchez, A.C., Rocha, A.V. and Varlagin, A. (2018). Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO-2 and flux tower observations. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 3990-4008. This paper demonstrates that SIF is a strong proxy of terrestrial GPP using different point of view.