Understanding and solving environmental challenges increasingly requires a combination of expertise from across multiple disciplines. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program ...

I am an ecosystem ecologist with interests in plant ecology, biogeochemistry, and global change. My work contributes to theoretical predictions of ecosystem structure and function, but also applies to ...

Regime shifts between alternative stable ecosystem states are becoming commonplace due to the combined effects of local stressors and global climate change. Alternative states are characterized as ...

Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds ...

Mangrove ecology : a geomorphological perspective / B.G. Thom -- The geographic and environmental aspects of mangrove communities : climate / J. Oliver -- Distribution and physiographic patterns of ...

Ecosystems in the Northwest were heavily shaped by wolves before they were nearly wiped out of the region, a new study finds. By the 1930s, gray wolves were nearly gone in Oregon and the rest of the ...