Research
My research interests span the fields of forest ecophysiology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem modeling, remote sensing, and climate change in ecosystems spanning a range of human influence. I am interested in the processes that drive forest carbon (C) cycling and how these drivers change with disturbance and anthropogenic modification. I study how forest structure influences availability and usage of growth-limiting resources and the effects on forest C storage and biogeochemical cycling. I address these questions using methods that bridge multiple spatial scales, from leaf-level ecophysiology to landscape-level experiments to remote sensing and modeling of vegetation dynamics across the landscape of natural and engineered ecosystems.
