Plant Physiological Ecology Laboratory

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Ecology Graduate Program

The main question driving Dr. Brent E. Ewers laboratory’s research is how does plant physiology control ecosystem cycles of mass and energy in time and space. Ongoing projects investigate a wide range of nonvascular, woody and herbaceous plants inhabiting near-pristine to heavily managed areas.

Research projects in the Ewers lab use numerous types of observations, experiments, measurements, scaling, remote sensing, spatial analysis and modeling to answer the main question. Results of these research projects have direct implications for evolution and organismal biology of plants, physiological and ecosystem ecology, hydrology, carbon and nutrient cycling, and global change phenomena.