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Theme: Climate change and ecosystem health
Climate change and forest ecosystems
Disentangling the complex effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.
Soil-fungal community responses to climate change
Synthesizing experiments and observations of soil-fungal community responses to climate change
Elevated CO2 and grassland ecosystem function
Understanding the effects of climatic changes on North American grasslands.
Effects of warming on montane ecosystems
Understanding the relative effects of climate warming and shifts in species abundances on montane ecosystems.
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.
Climate change and forest tree phenology
Understanding and projecting phenology during climate change with experimental and observational data.
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?
Climate change and lake chemistry
Understanding how low-oxygen lake systems might react to climate change.
Biodiversity of soil fungi
Investigating how potential climate change may affect microbial redistributions and therefore ecosystem functions at the continental scale.
Hurricane disturbance and shifts in forests
Can functional traits predict the mortality on forest plant communities after hurricanes?
Do competitive effects trump climatic stimulation in grassy ecosystems?
Predicting grassland community interactions in future high CO2 climates.
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.
Effects of climate change and disturbance regime shifts on vegetation
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Forest multifunctionality: a new approach to forecasting resilience under climate change
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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.