Kristine Crous is an expert on temperature responses of plant metabolic processes including photosynthesis and respiration. Her combined skills in gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence are essential to probe the limits of heat tolerance based unravel the underlying physiological mechanisms at the leaf level. She is interested in dynamic responses of trees and forests to climate change and how these vital plant functions are coping with heat stress and associated effects (drought, fire, etc). She has worked in canopies of both temperate and tropical systems to evaluate responses of both rainforests and Eucalyptus trees. She developed a unique leaf heating system to evaluate the warming responses of mature trees in natural settings and link between functional loss and leaf damage during heatwaves