FOREST ECOLOGY ON THE FRINGES OF SOCIETY

RESEARCH:

I focus at the intersection of 3 areas of ecology applied to forests:

November 2023: In collaboration with Jason Vlemickx, Simon Queenborough and Liza Comita (Yale) and folks at the Yasuní Forest dynamics plot in Ecuador (Renato Valencia, Nancy Garwood and Margaret Metz), a recently published study in New Phytologist, documents the negative effects of warming (increasing nighttime minimum temperatures) and increasing relative humidity on tropical tree flower production of montane wet forests in the western Amazon.

September 2023: I have started a post-doc position at USFS IITF, based out of Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, CO. I am working with Eileen Helmer to investigate multiscale responses of Caribbean forests to hurricane disturbance.

July 2023: I had a great time at the LTER SPARC: Producer-Consumer responses to disturbance working group at NCEAS in Santa Barbara. I was stimulating to work with ecologists from different ecosystems, backgrounds and perspectives to try to synthesize our understanding of how disturbances affect food web dynamics.

June 2023: It was a very stimulating experience attending the NEON-NCAR CTSM model-data synthesis workshop. An amazing group of colleagues gathered to run point simulations with CTSM at NEON sites. Check this paper for more information. A version of this workshop will also be presented at ESA 2023 (contact Will Wieder at NCAR for more information).

Do you have leaf gas exchange data you want to archive so others can use them? Check out Kim Ely, Alistar Rodgers et al.'s reporting format. Links to their Github and example datasets are on the publications tab.