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TePEE - Participating Faculty
Terrestrial Plant and Ecosystem Ecology
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Oliver Chadwick (Geography)- soil geochemistry and geomorphology; organic and mineral fluxes during soil, atmosphere, water and vegetation interaction

Carla D'Antonio (ES / EEMB)- plant community dynamics; controls over invasions by non-indigenous species; how species addition feedbacks to affect ecosystem processes and species composition; constraints on ecosystem restoration

Frank Davis (Bren School)- landscape ecology and conservation planning; coupling of ecological pattern and process in Mediterranean-climate plant communities

Jonathan Levine (EEMB)- plant ecology; factors controlling the success and impacts of biological invasions; processes influencing persistence and coexistence in plant communities; mathematical models in plant ecology

Bruce Mahall (EEMB)- physiological plant ecology; phenology; water relations; productivity; root dynamics; controls of community structures and plant distributions

Susan Mazer (EEMB)- evolutionary plant ecology; quantitative and ecological genetics; the functional ecology of life history traits; factors limiting reproduction in populations; detecting evolutionary processes and the outcome of natural selection

Dar Roberts (Geography)- remote sensing of vegetation; land-use/land-cover change; plant physiology; spectroscopy; wildfire and fire ecology

Josh Schimel (EEMB / ES)- soil ecology; effects of microbial dynamics and composition on ecosystem function; cycling of carbon and nitrogen; linkages between aboveground communities and soil processes

Chris Still (Geography)- impacts of fog on ecosystem structure and processes; ecology and conservation of tropical montane cloud forests; the role of C4 photosynthesis in the carbon cycle at regional and global scales; isotopic tracers of ecological functioning

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