Faculty contact:  David Wolfe

Our climate change research is examining plant response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and a warming, and the impact these changes may have on natural and managed ecosystems and regional and global food supplies.

Projects have included:

• Using plant phenology as an indicator of regional climate change.
• Temperature and carbon dioxide effects on soil ecology and nutrient cycling.
• Elevated carbon dioxide effects on symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes, and nitrogen use efficiency.
• Elevated carbon dioxide effects on plant-water relations, photosynthesis, and response to high and low temperature stress.