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Welcome to the Vegetation and Landscape Ecology Lab San Diego County  October 2003 fires  Cuyamaca State Park  Plant Ecology class  Rain Forest in Tonga
In my lab we are interested in the patterns and dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems at the landscape scale. Much of our work emphasizes the impacts of human-caused landscape change on terrestrial plant communities. Patterns of human land use -- agriculture and urbanization -- and other large-scale human impacts such as global warming and the introduction of exotic species, often interact with natural disturbance regimes such as fire and hurricanes, to shape plant community dynamics. How resilient are ecological communities to these multiple impacts? Conservation and land management questions drive this work, much of which has recently been carried out in the southern California region. The tools we use include field measurements of plant community composition, multivariate analysis, spatial statistics, landscape simulation models, and geospatial data analysis. What's New Janet Franklin and VALE have MOVED to Arizona State University! Janet it jointly appointed in the School of Geographical Sciences and the School of Life Sciences faculty group in Ecology Evolution and Environmental Science. Students interested in doing graduate work with Janet please read Message to Prospective Students  tropical early succession  LANDIS simulation model Message To Prospective StudentsPeopleCurrent Research ProjectsPublicationsSpatial Analysis GroupClasses |