I am broadly interested in all areas of ecosystem ecology, and especially in the interface between plant community and ecosystem ecology. In particular, I am interested in how plant species effects on ecosystem processes compare in magnitude to other factors that influence these processes. A related interest is whether we need to know how plant community composition will change to predict the response of ecosystem processes to human-caused global change.

B.A. in Biology, Carleton College, 1986
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 1995