Rates and lags of plant responses to climate change
Using whole-community transplant experiments, this project studies the pace of plant responses to warming and drought. It focuses on delayed and transient dynamics across populations, communities, and ecosystem processes, and their consequences for predicting biodiversity change.
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Plant acclimation and range shifts under climate change
This project examines whether in situ plant responses, quantified through trait change in historical herbarium specimens, help explain mismatches between predicted and observed range shifts under climate change.
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Processes shaping species ranges and community assembly along an elevational gradient
This project disentangles environmental, spatial, and biotic contributions to species ranges and community assembly along an elevational gradient, clarifying which aspects of plant ranges and community assembly are potentially structured by deterministic processes.
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Climate–vegetation disequilibrium across the Holocene and Anthropocene
This project compares rates of climate and vegetation change across the Holocene and Anthropocene to quantify climate–vegetation disequilibrium under accelerating climate change.
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Improving ecological forecasting
This project develops and evaluates near-term ecological forecasts across systems, integrating data, models, and evaluation to understand when and why ecological change is predictable.
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