Post-doctoral and graduate research

Stephanie Bernard (post-doc)
Plant response to global climate change, linking plant gene expression to ecosystem function

Will Cornwell (post-doc, arriving October 2009)
Trait diversity and ecosystem function, climate change

Peter Cowan (Ph.D.)
Functional traits, flammability, and the frequency of fire

Chris DiVittorio (Ph.D.)
Phylogenetic comparative methods and field experiments to answer questions about the evolution of plant traits and the maintenance of species diversity.

Nathan Kraft (post-doc)
Community assembly, plant functional traits, phylogenetic structure of communities

Ginger Jui
Effects of climate and biogeography on plant species diversification, comparative phylogenetic methods and geospatial analyses

Aaron Ramirez

Stephanie Stuart (Ph.D.)
Patterns and processes that lead to cold tolerance