Postdoctoral Research Associate
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, United States
I am a plant ecologist conducting research on consequences of global environmental change at the interface of plant community and ecosystem ecology with experience in a range of biomes and ecosystem types. My research examines both broad patterns of ecosystem responses to global change as well as mechanisms for how plant communities may confer stabilizing or amplifying feedbacks thereby impacting ecosystem responses to environmental change. My research focuses on three main areas of inquiry and is applicable across natural ecological and agroecological systems, with ongoing projects presently focused in grasslands of both North America and Australia: 1) plant-ecosystem nutrient cycling in response to eutrophication and climate change, 2) impacts of plant community change on ecosystem functions, 3) drivers of plant community and ecosystem resistance and recovery in the face of extreme climate. My first post-doc addressed these themes in the pasturelands of Eastern Australia under field manipulations of combined extreme temperature and drought, and my latest position examines the impacts of extreme drought along an old-field successional chronosequence to examine drivers of ecosystem resistance.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT