Research

The research in my lab falls into several subject areas.  Below are links to on going and recently completed work. 

Piney Point

• Role of functional traits in predicting long-term changes in plant communities

• Causes and Consequences of weedy plant invasions

• Long term studies of shifts in Wisconsin plant communities, structure and composition.
  • Northern Wisconsin Hardwood Forests
  • Southern Wisconsin Hardwood Forests
  • Southern Wisconsin Floodplain Forests
  • Other community types

• Impacts of deer browsing on plant diversity and tree composition in Lake States forests

Sarah Johnson hanging off of a Sorbus as a means for climbing down this Michigan Island cliff to avoid a 2-hr hike back through the very thick forest

• Ecological Monitoring of terrestrial vegetation and white-tailed deer impacts in National Parks of the Great Lakes Region

• The evolution of plant mating systems

• How the demographic and genetic structures of wild plant populations respond to (sub) population size, patterns of disturbance and habitat conditions

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