Kueppers Lab Group

Congratulations to Meredith Jabis for filing her dissertation! This hard won accomplishment is just the start. She has a paper in review and two more in development, with ambitions to expand her analyses of GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) data from RMBL and other sites in the Western US.

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 scenarios. This is exciting work for a number of reasons: 1) Tom developed model parameterizations…

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 taxa thought to have anti-fungal properties in their roots, particularly when we watered the seedlings.…

  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 in Northern California.

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.