rebeccamcculley

Grassland Ecology in the McCulley Lab
Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Univ. of Kentucky

Dr. McCulley's lab is broadly interested in the structure and function of grass and shrub-dominated ecosystems. We explore how human land use interacts with climate, soils, and biota in these ecosystem types to impact the storage and cycling of nutrients at both local and regional spatial scales.

Examples of research questions our lab addresses are:

1). How do grasslands respond to climate and landuse change?

2). What are the ecosytem consequences of fungal endophyte infection

in tall fescue pastures of the southeastern U.S.?

3). What controls litter decomposition in arid grasslands?

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