Kueppers Lab Group

Former PhD student Meredith Jabis just had another dissertation chapter published in Plant Ecology & Diversity – with the cover image! Her study examined whether and how neighboring alpine plants affect the physiology and survival of tree seedlings trying to establish above current treeline, and whether climate change alters this relationship.

Several students and postdocs are giving posters and talks at the American Geophysical Union 2020 Fall Meeting – all virtual of course. Marshall Worsham is presenting a poster Dec 7 (An Enhanced Remote Sensing Method for Agent Attribution of Forest Disturbance); Julia Longmate is giving a talk Dec 8 (Biases in temperature and precipitation over…

Postdoc Barbara Bomfim contributed to new research establishing a record of soil changes associated with both climate and human activity over the last 1,600 years based on radiocarbon dating in 83 sites across the transition zone between the Amazon and the Brazilian savanna. The study suggests a regional increase in moisture and expansion of woody vegetation prior to modern deforestation,…

We are making a push to get data associated with publications from our Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment published and publicly accessible. Our first dataset, which includes data from Lazarus, Castanha et al. 2017 is now published in DOE’s ESS-DIVE archive and can be accessed here. Additional datasets are forthcoming and links will eventually be added to our Publications page.

We are looking for a new postdoc to explore the dynamics of California and western US ecosystems under a changing climate and fire regime using the FATES-SPITFIRE vegetation demographic model. The work involves collaboration with a larger team of scientists seeking to advance the ability to predict changes to diverse wildfire regimes under ongoing climate…