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Congratulations to Zoey Bailey for graduating the University of Oregon with honors! Zoey and I met at a volunteer event transplanting wild strawberries at a native plant nursery in Eugene. She is a highly motivated, budding fire ecologist. She spent her summers fire fighting and doing research in our lab.... [Read More]

Our new article, “Functional diversity buffers biomass production across variable rainfall conditions through different processes above- versus below-ground” published in Functional Ecology has been long time coming! Ashley Shaw and I started analyzing this data back in 2019 but it was missing some data. We put a pin on it... [Read More]

Congratulations to Ellie Codding for graduating the University of Oregon with honors! Ellie helped with the project on genetic diversity of bluebunch wheatgrass for two years and produced an excellent honors thesis in her final year. We will miss her bright smile and energy in the lab!

Congratulations, Bronwyn Thomas for graduating the University of Oregon with B.S. Biology! Bronwyn’s broad curiosity for plant ecology led them to our lab, and they helped us with various projects from germination trials to fieldwork in the Great Basin. They will be starting a new job at Oregon Department of... [Read More]

Our new article, “Intraspecific variation in native grass seedling plastic trait response to water stress depends on the context of annual grass invasion” is published in Restoration Ecology! My undergraduate mentee, Emily Cook and I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse in Fall of 2020 sifting through roots... [Read More]