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Bio
Plant community ecology; restoration, invasion biology, environmental change, and conservation.
I am a plant community ecologist working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. My goal is to apply cutting-edge “usable” science to the challenges of restoration, species invasion, and environmental change. My research group and I work with a range of conservation groups, government agencies and land managers to provide evidence-based solutions that take into account biodiversity, human well-being, and management opportunities. We employ a combination of long-term monitoring, modeling and experimental approaches in settings that range from alpine tundra to oak woodlands to grasslands. Common themes include plant-soil feedbacks, functional traits, species effects on ecosystem processes, and non-linear and threshold dynamics.
Visit the Suding Lab web site.
Education
- PhD: University of Michigan, 1999
- BS: Williams College, 1994
Awards
- Highly Cited Researcher (2016-2019), Web of Science Group, 2019
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018
- MacArthur Award, Ecological Society of America, 2018
- BFA Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, Boulder Faculty Assembly, 2018
- Fellow, Ecological Society of America, 2016
Research
Visit the Suding Lab web site. We are plant community ecologists working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. Our goal is to apply cutting-edge science to the challenges of restoration, invasion, and environmental change.
Publications
Recent publications
Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization
Publication Date: 2005-03-22
Type: Journal Article
Biological control insect use of fertilized and unfertilized diffuse knapweed in a Colorado grassland
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Type: Journal Article
Understanding invasions: the rise and fall of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North America
Type: Chapter
Competitive impacts and responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Type: Journal Article
Alternative states and positive feedbacks in restoration ecology
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Species effects on resource supply rates: do they influence competitive interactions?
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Type: Journal Article
Notes & Abstracts
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Type: Journal Article
Relationships among species traits: Separating levels of response and identifying linkages to abundance
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Type: Journal Article
The effect of spring burning on competitive ranking of prairie species
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Type: Journal Article
Do disturbances alter competitive hierarchies? Mechanisms of change following gap creation
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Type: Journal Article
Do Disturbances Alter Competitive Hierarchies? Mechanisms of Change Following Gap Creation
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Type: Journal Article
The effects of gap creation on competitive interactions: separating changes in overall intensity from relative rankings
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Type: Journal Article
Variation in the effects of vegetation and litter on recruitment across productivity gradients
Publication Date: 1999-06-01
Type: Journal Article
Pages
Teaching
Courses
- EBIO 6100: Graduate Seminar in Critical Transitions & Resilience
- It is increasingly clear that ecological systems, like many other complex systems, have critical thresholds at which they shift abruptly from one state to another--non-linear transitions that are abrupt and hard to reverse. We will explore the application of complexity theory to such issues as desertification in rangelands, dieback in coral reefs, and turbidly in lakes.
Current postdocs and students
Alumni
Outreach
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