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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 this 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. Human land use -- agriculture and urbanization -- and other large-scale human impacts such as global warming, air pollution 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? Applied conservation and land management questions drive this work, much of which is carried out in the southern California region. We use many tools including field measurements of plant community composition, multivariate analysis, spatial analysis, landscape simulation models, and geographic information systems. What's New Spatial Analysis Group  tropical early succession  LANDIS simulation model PeopleCurrent Research ProjectsPublicationsMessage to Prospective StudentsClasses |