What we do
Our lab investigates how plants and soil microbes mediate energy flow and nutrient dynamics in forests. Plants and microbes perform vital ecosystem services (e.g., carbon storage, water filtration, nutrient retention) and reduce the impacts of some of society’s greatest environmental threats. We use a complementary suite of approaches that integrate field observations with controlled environmental systems to address questions that intersect plant physiological ecology and soil microbial ecology in an ecosystem context.
