Terrestrial Ecology

Objectives
Understand and predict the dynamic behavior of ecosystems at multiple scales (molecular to watersheds)

• Carbon Cycle and Carbon Sequestration
• Climatic Change Experiments and Simulation
• Landscape Ecology and Regional Studies
• Plant Molecular Ecology
• Bioeneregy

Major Programs and Projects

• Arabidopsis Mesocosms (HERMES)
• Carbon Cycle Studies
• Data Assimilation
• Global Terrrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Model (GTEC)
• Ameriflux--Missouri
• Soil Carbon
• State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR)
• Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE)
• Carbon Flux Ecoregions
• Environmental Data for Walker Branch Watershed and the Oak Ridge Reservation
• Feedstock Systems Engineering
• Forest Conservation at the Landscape Scale
• Free-Air CO2 Enrichment facility (FACE)
• Identifying Critical Thresholds for Acute Responses of Plants to Water Stress (TARP)
• Multifactor Climate Change Research (OCCAM)
• Plant Genomics and Metabolomics
• Soil Carbon Cycle (EBIS)
• Strategic Environmental Research and Development (SERDP)
• Throughfall Displacement Experiment (TDE)
• Walker Branch Watershed (WBW)

Research Staff

Baskaran, Latha Classen, Aimee Dale, Virginia Efroymson, Rebecca Garten, Chuck Gu, Lianhong Gunderson, Carla

Gunter, Lee Hanson, Paul King, Tony Marland, Greg Martin, Madhavi Mulholland, Pat

Norby, Richard Post, W. Mac Tschaplinski, Tim Tuskan, Jerry West, Tris Wullschleger, Stan