NEWS
- I will be
joining the faculty of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural
Resources at the University of Vermont, December 2011.
- New paper on forest diversity in Journal of Ecology.
- New paper on
why elevated CO2 increases soil
respiration in Global
Change Biology.
- Adair et al. 2008
paper on modeling global long-term decomposition ranked by Global
Change
Biology
as
one
of
the
25
most
cited
since
2008.
- New paper in Plant and Soil
on
the phenological and biogeochemical effects of cheatgrass invasion.
- New paper on the perils of using the single
pool model in ecological studies in Ecology.
- I have added
a page with links to excel file templates that
allow anyone to calculate climate
decompostion
indices (CDI) for sites with monthly temperature and precipitation
data.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
As a
quantitative biogeochemist and
ecosystem ecologist, I strive to understand how multiple vectors of
global change interact
to alter ecosystem processes (like decomposition) and how these
alterations feed back to
impact global change factors.
I combine synthetic (e.g., using
large data sets and model selection techniques) and experimental
methods to address this complex question, with a focus on identifying the mechanisms underlying ecosystem processes.
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