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Current and recent projects

Plant Research @ UNM

  • Collins Lab
  • Hanson Lab
  • Litvak Lab
  • Lowrey Lab
  • Marshall Lab

Biology Units

  • Sevilleta LTER
  • Sevilleta Field Station
  • LTER Network Office
  • Museum of SW Biology

Responses to climate change and precipitation variability

Hydraulic mechanisms of survival and mortality in pinon-juniper woodlands of the southwestern USA (DOE-PER).

Implications of precipitation changes on the carbon balance of pinon-juniper ecosystems (USDA-FS-RMRS)

Global change effects on grass-shrub interactions in an arid ecosystem (NSF).

Impact of rainfall variability and woody encroachment on productivity in a semi-arid grassland (DOE NICCR ).

Do vegetation-microclimate feedbacks promote shrub encroachment in the southwestern United States (NSF)

Hydraulic limitation of plant function and distribution

Interaction of freezing and drought stress in Larrea spp. from North and South America.

Response of assimilation and transpiration in sunflower leaves following leaf vein incision.

Structure and function of deep roots accessed via caves in central Texas.

Variation in xylem anatomy across temperature and precipitation gradients and ploidy levels.

Water relations of native and non-native tree species along the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico.

Other

Sevilleta LTER wireless data transmission (NSF FSML)

UNM Sevilleta Field Station renovation (NSF FSML)

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