Our work focuses on the physiological and evolutionary dimensions of plant ecology that influence community assembly and ecosystem function. We are particularly interested in the genetic and evolutionary basis of variation in plant phenotypes and spectral...
Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing to explore multiple facets of...
Our research on plant diversity integrates the disciplines of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology. One major theme that unites these disciplines is phylogenetic theory, which we apply to reconstruct the history of plant...
I am interested in the vascular plants of temperate to subtropical eastern Asia, their diversity and patterns of distribution and how they relate to the plants of North America. The Hengduan Mountain region of China, one of the world's hotspots of...