Current Projects
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Developing work for California ecosystems are focused on drought and fire impacts to forested ecosystems (e.g. the Sierra Nevada) and interactions at boundaries of natural vegetation and the built environment. Click here for a recent press release on the Camp Fire. More tools and analysis on the Camp Fire will be provided here soon.
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The Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics project is investigating the future of tropical forests under a changing atmosphere and warming climate, with an emphasis on carbon cycle feedbacks. NGEE Tropics Phase 1 (first three years) is currently in the third year -- click right to learn more at our new website!
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Our GoAmazon Terrestrial Ecosystem (Geco) project that finished in December of 2015 was focused on developing an improved mechanistic understanding of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions from Amazon forest trees. With these new data, the Geco project provided an improved biological understanding of forest-atmosphere BVOC fluxes for the larger GoAmazon project, and BVOC flux algorithms in Earth system models (ESMs). Major results from Geco include a better understanding of the roles of BVOCs in plant biochemical ecology, including the roles of these compounds in plant defense to elevated temperatures and moisture stress. See publications tab for a large numbers of papers published from Geco
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