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Theme: Climate change and ecosystem health

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Climate change and forest ecosystems

Disentangling the complex effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. 

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Soil-fungal community responses to climate change

Synthesizing experiments and observations of soil-fungal community responses to climate change

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Elevated CO2 and grassland ecosystem function

Understanding the effects of climatic changes on North American grasslands.

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Effects of warming on montane ecosystems

Understanding the relative effects of climate warming and shifts in species abundances on montane ecosystems.

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Earlier seasonal rainfall impacts on communities & ecosystems

Looking into how altered precipitation seasonality affects plant diversity and biomass by experimentally increasing spring precipitation via manual irrigation and decreasing summer precipitation using rainout shelters.

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Climate change and forest tree phenology

Understanding and projecting phenology during climate change with experimental and observational data.

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Shifts in snowmelt timing drive communities & ecosystems

Assessing influences of snowmelt date on net ecosystem exchange and what role do shifts in plant communities and abiotic conditions play in the response of NEE?


 

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Climate change and lake chemistry

Understanding how low-oxygen lake systems might react to climate change.

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Biodiversity of soil fungi

Investigating how potential climate change may affect microbial redistributions and therefore ecosystem functions at the continental scale.

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Hurricane disturbance and shifts in forests

Can functional traits predict the mortality on forest plant communities after hurricanes?

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Do competitive effects trump climatic stimulation in grassy ecosystems?

Predicting grassland community interactions in future high CO2 climates.

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Shifts in richness and abundance across Chinese subtropical forests from a half-century window

Providing novel insights for the management and conservation of subtropical forests under climate change.

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Effects of climate change and disturbance regime shifts on vegetation

More info to follow soon...

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Forest multifunctionality: a new approach to forecasting resilience under climate change

More info to follow soon...

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Forest Carbon Cycling

IGCB Exchnage Fellow, Dr Guopeng Liang, studies the roles of plant-soil interactions in carbon cycling in forests.

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