Research

Research Areas:

• • Land-use Change, Ecological Sustainability, and 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
• • Enhanced Weathering for Climate Change Mitigation
    • Sequestering atmospheric carbon through weathering of rock minerals in agricultural soils
    • Comparisons of feasibility, management, and productivity in annual and perennial bioenergy feedstocks
• • Global Change and Plant-Insect Interactions
    • Modulations of plant-insect interactions by global change in a soybean 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