Climate Change and Ecosystem Dynamics

Postdoc Tom Powell just published a terrific new paper in New Phytologist! He used the ED2 vegetation demographic model to show how hydroclimate variability contributes to tropical forest functional diversity, which in turn makes forest biomass resilient to many drought…

A new paper from our climate change experiment is just out! It shows that establishing limber pine seedlings host a different microbiome in their shoot and root tissues than that found in mature trees. It also shows an increased abundance of bacterial…

  Congratulations to Adam Hanbury-Brown and the rest of the ERG Masters class of 2018! Adam’s master’s thesis included an interactive web map with information on Roosevelt elk foraging, bedding and migration areas to support emerging efforts to study and manage elk populations…

Former postdoc Erin Conlisk’s paper showing that low elevation populations and ecotypes can be critical to upslope expansion of subalpine trees with climate warming just came out in the January issue of Global Change Biology.

PLOS Ecology Community Editor Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie highlighted our 2017 paper in Global Change Biology as one of her “favorite slow reads of the year.” Thanks Caitlin!

Our paper on the effects of warming on subalpine tree seedling germination in the field and lab is now out in Forests. We found that warming advanced germination timing for both Engelmann spruce and limber pine, and reduced Engelmann spruce…