Research:

Research Areas

• Land-use Change, Ecological Sustainability, Bioenergy Production
  • Environmental impact and sustainability of feedstock production
  • The interaction between emerging renewable energy industries and ecosystem health: synthesis, theoretical framework and prediction
  • Using second-generation biofuel feedstocks to improve the carbon economy of US agriculture
• Global Change and Plant-Insect Interactions
  • Modulations of plant-insect interactions by global change in a soyban agroecosystem
  • Molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying a parasite-plant interaction
• Crop Physiology, Global Change, and Food Security
  • The interactive effects of elevated temperature and CO2 applied under filed conditions on a soybean ecosystem
• Forest Productivity and Ecophysiology
  • Carbon cycling in an aging forest: A test of the "respiration" vs the "GPP" hypothesis
• Quantitative imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence from intact leaves

Recent Results and Presentations

Past Results and Presentations