Hi there, I'm Max Larter, welcome to my personal website!

I am a plant ecophysiologist and an evolutionary biologist. My primary research interest is understanding how plants adapt to their environment, and in particular in the face of climate change, with rapidly changing temperature and rainfall patterns. By examining trait distributions of living and extinct lineages, we can gain insight into how key physiological traits have evolved in the past, and what genetic mechanisms enabled that variation. It's becoming rapidly critical to transferring that knowledge into predicting the impacts of climate change on the distributions of wild species and crop health.

More broadly, I'm interested in using combinations of physiological and morphological traits, ecological and climatic data in an evolutionary framework to try and answer cool questions.

Drought and cold stress

Right now, on top of this fundamental research work, as a post-doc in Sylvain Delzon's lab in Bordeaux) in collaboration with a local startup, I'm aiming to improving our ability to predict ground and air temperature in more or less urban environments, and how to simulate and model both temperature changes and carbon storage with land use change and urban development. My main focus for now is on Bordeaux's university campuses.

I'm not currently looking for students, sorry.

Credits

I made this website with very little knowledge of how github pages or html work, using Auriel Fournier's site as inspiration (based on Barry Clark's work here).