Congrats Dr. Hemming-Schroeder!

Congrats Dr. Hemming-Schroeder!

ESS PhD student Nicole Hemming-Schroeder defended her dissertation on “Mapping and Modeling Individual Tree Mortality in California’s Sierra Nevada After the 2012-2016 Drought.” Congratulations, and best wishes for your postdoc at CU Boulder!
Cover story: wood, termites, fungi

Cover story: wood, termites, fungi

Our article entitled “Wood traits explain microbial but not termite-driven decay in Australian tropical rainforest and savanna” made the cover of the Journal of Ecology! Also check out our blog post for a behind-the-scenes look at the trials and...

An eco-evolutionary concept

Our recent article in Ecology Letters describes how ecology and evolution blend together in microbial responses to environmental change: “Investigating the eco-evolutionary response of microbiomes to environmental change”
Estimating tree mortality

Estimating tree mortality

Congratulations to Nicole Hemming-Schroeder for publishing her first dissertation chapter in JGR Biogeosciences: “Estimating Individual Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada Using Lidar and Multispectral Reflectance Data”