Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah. My research interests focus on whole plant ecology, specifically on woody plants, and how structure and function of organs influence and are influenced by the whole plant processes, community structure, and the abiotic environment.
Plant communities change across the landscape in response to resource availability.
In Florida's terrestrial ecosystems, plant community composition changes along a hydrological gradient. I am also interested in scaling processes from the leaf level to the whole plant and community, and temporally from instantaneous responses to annual and decadal cycles. Integrating plant responses to the environment on a regional or a global scale is critical to predict community responses to climate change and it's affect on vegetation distributions. Brooks, J.R., L. Flanagan, N. Buchman, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997. Brooks, J.R., L. Flanagan, G. Varney, and J.R. Ehleringer. 1997.