ON THE FRINGES OF SOCIETY
Research on the ecology of tropical forests, their wealth of plant diversity & their conservation in the 21st century
STUDY:
I focus at the intersection of 3 areas of ecology applied to tropical forests:
forest dynamics, global change and plant functional traits
forest dynamics, global change and plant functional traits
Forest
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Forests & Global Change |
Plant Functional Traits |
NEWS:
- May 2020: New dataset available on the ORNL TES SFA data portal - Physiological Responses of Populus trichocarpa to warming.
- April 2020: Review out in Trends in Ecology and Evolution: Tropical Cyclone Ecology: A scale-link perspective.
- March 2020: Paper accepted in BioScience - "A framework to integrate cross-ecosystem responses to tropcial cyclones". This is the product of a 2019 NSF workshop on hurricane disturbance led by Chris Patrick, John Kominoski & Bill McDowell.
- January 17 - 27, 2020: I had a blast working on a seedling drought experiment at the Luquillo LTER, in colaboration with David Matlaga (Susquehanna University), Bob Muscarella (Uppsala Universtiy) & others.
