Undergraduates collaborate in global study of Land-use Influences on Leaf Litter Decomposition = LandComp Project. Undergraduate student at our agricultural field site.
Research team making measurements at Mount St. Helens. We are studying the natural succession of 4 replicate streams on the Pumice Plain following the 1980 eruption of the volcano.
We are excitedly looking over data from the day’s work. Getting started on a manuscript around the campfire – is there a better way to spend the evening?!
Article on microbial community dynamics published in OIKOS. Intaglio print of maple leaf with Rhytisma infection – with Evergreen art/science course.
Fungal endophytes significantly influence in-stream decomposition dynamics. Article on decomposition published in Freshwater Biology.
Cottonwood Ecology Group circa 2002! Published classic review of Ecological Genetics in Nature Reviews Genetics, 2006.
Large collaborative group at Coweeta LTER on 11-11-11: the working group that published “Global Synthesis of the Temperature Sensitivity of Leaf Litter Breakdown in Streams and Rivers” in Global Change Biology in 2017.
