About
Fields of study
Ecosystem ecology, global change, nutreint and carbon cycling, plant-soil interactions, biodiversity
Research interests
We are a diverse and international group who focus on how global changes impact terrestrial ecosystems at local, regional and global scales. Recently, we’ve focused on three general areas: (1) Understanding and modeling connections among soil organisms, herbivores, parasites, plants and ecosystem function (2) Understanding how shifting above- and below-ground biodiversity and global change alters the composition and function of ecosystems and (3) Exploring how scale and location influence ecological patterns and ecosystem processes. We work across scales from the micro (soil food webs) to the macro (regional carbon fluxes) as well as across diverse terrestrial ecosystems. We use a combination of observations, experiments and models to answer ecological questions.
Graduate students
Brenda Hernandez; Aadia Moseley-McCloud; Olivia Vought
Research team
Karin Rand (lab manager); Isabel Thornberry (resaerch tech)
