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Climate change feedbacks
​to the Arctic carbon cycle 

Our broad interests here relate to how interactions between plants-microbes control carbon and nutrient cycling under both short-term (e.g., widlfires), and long-term (e.g., warming, elevated CO2) disturbances.
Ecosystem response to disturbance: Climate warming is occurring fastest at high-latitudes. Understanding, the impact of chronic climate change, and related increase in wildfire occurrence, is critical for understanding future carbon-climate feedbacks. We use a combination of modeling, and data-synthesis to address,
  1. How does the carbon-cycle response to climate-perturbation differ from short-term warming experiments relative to long-term climate  change? See Bouskill et al. 2019 for more information on this study.
  2. What are the long-term ramifications of abrupt wildfire disturbance against the backdrop of ongoing climate change across a centennial timescale?
  3. What role does the belowground microbial community play in enabling the recovery of the aboveground community?
  4. How do plant-microbe interactions shape the Arctic soil carbon cycle?​​​
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Funding: Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment located in Alaska (NGEE-Arctic), funded by DOE, Biological and Environmental Research Program. ​
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  • Home
  • About
  • Research
    • Nitrogen cycling in mountainous watersheds
    • Climate change feedbacks to the Arctic carbon cycle
    • Microbial responses to drought
    • Integrating microbial ecology into land models
  • Group members
  • Publications
  • Codes
  • Photos
    • Field work
    • Mountains
    • Miscellaneous​
  • Opportunities