Terrestrial Ecosystem Function

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Work in our lab generally falls in the broad domain of terrestrial ecology, with an emphasis on how the biology of plants interacts with other components of ecological systems.We also like to work on projects that attempt to productively apply this fundamental understanding to a variety of modern problems. Ongoing projects include research on southeastern forests and climate change, biogeochemial consequences of vegetation change, drivers of isotope fractionation in plants, and large-scale modeling of isotope landscapes (isoscapes).