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The overarching goal in my research group is to understand how ecosystem processes respond to climate change and ecological disturbance.
 We aim to improve predictive understanding of mechanisms driving feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere by asking questions such as:
  • How does warming affect soil organic matter decomposition? 
  • How does elevated CO2 alter carbon cycling?
  • Do invasive plant species alter nutrient cycling and rhizosphere stoichiometry? 
  • How do ecological disturbances alter biogeochemical cycles?  
 Past changes in climate have affected ecosystem processes and vegetation distributions, and can provide insight into potential future climate-vegetation dynamics. Dendrochronology and paleoecology are tools that we combine with stable isotope analysis to evaluate past changes in precipitation seasonality and temperature at sites in North and South America. 
Check out more details about the PHACE project on the UW Botany Blog: http://uwbotany.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-will-wyomings-grasslands-look-like.html.

Want to Apply to Work in the Pendall Lab?

I've taken a position in Sydney, Australia! Please visit this link to learn more

pendall@uwyo.edu

e.pendall@uws.edu.au

Interested in graduate studies in Ecology? Check out the UW Program in Ecology web site


Lab News

  • Elise is Down Under Elise recently accepted a professorship in soil science at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her new email is e.pendall@uws.edu ...
    Posted Feb 17, 2014, 5:50 PM by Elise Pendall
  • New paper on soil carbon feedbacks to climate change Microbes accelerate soil carbon loss in a warmer, high CO2 world New paper from the Pendall lab at UW demonstrates potential carbon cycle - climate feedbacks from prairie soils. Post ...
    Posted Dec 30, 2012, 8:08 PM by Elise Pendall
  • Undergrad Research Laura Morse won an undergraduate summer fellowship from the Wyoming NASA Space Grant competition for her proposal to study microbial responses to changing soil pH. Good work, Laura!
    Posted Nov 8, 2012, 9:58 PM by Elise Pendall
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