Dushan Kumarathunge

[Synthesized from academic records + research fields] Research interests: Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Agricultural pest management studies Affiliation: University of Ruhuna Faculty of Agriculture, Agricultural Biology, Senior Lecturer Recent publications: "Attributing the temperature response of tree seedling growth to underlying mechanisms"; "Potential thermal safety margin for plant photosynthesis derived from local temperature variability"; "Photosynthetic temperature responses in leaves and canopies: why temperature optima may disagree at different scales"