SCHUUR LAB - ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS RESEARCH

  • Eight Mile Lake, AK; C. Schädel
  • Eight Mile Lake, AK; C. Schädel
  • Alaska Range; credit: C. Schädel
  • Automated Flux Chambers
  • Eriophorum Vaginatum
  • foggy mountains in Healy
  • Winter setting in Healy, AK
  • Winter snow fences
  • Dall Sheep, Denali National Park
  • Fall at CiPEHR
  • Spring at CiPEHR
  • Fall at the Gradient site; credit: E. Webb
  • Snowfences at CiPEHR; credit: S. Natali
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Kirsten K. Coe

Kirsten Coe

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Research Interests


I am broadly interested in terrestrial plant responses to global change, and plant-soil relationships in surface-level vegetation that influence, and are influenced by, global change factors. In particular, I am interested in how changes in precipitation regime and hydrology will influence biogeochemistry and carbon balance in dryland and tundra ecosystems. My research uses field and laboratory work from physiological to ecosystem scales to address three central questions:

  • How will alterations in inter- and intra-annual hydrological dynamics influence terrestrial carbon cycling?
  • How will ecophysiological changes and thresholds in performance and survival in plants manifest as drivers of ecosystem change?
  • How will bryophyte communities respond to global change, and what biogeochemical feedbacks exist at the plant-soil interface as a function of these responses?
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