Director; Professor, U-M Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
About
- Pellston and Ann Arbor campuses
Contact me for:
- Educational programing
- Research activities
- General problem solving
I am seeking graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergrad students to work in my lab.
Fields of study:
Global change, ecosystem ecology, 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, 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 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:
Sorrel Hartford; Libby O'Brien; Olivia Vought
