The overarching goals of my research are to understand the underlying fundamental processes driving forest responses to stressors exacerbated by climate change and to characterize the properties that make forests resistant and resilient to these stressors across scales. I integrate interdisciplinary approaches that incorporate forest inventory data with measurements of tree physiological and structural traits, microclimate monitoring, and seedling monitoring to evaluate forest dynamics and functioning, and predict responses to climate change. My current research assesses the effects of climate change on temperate tree seedling establishment and survivorship, using long-term seedling monitoring data from twelve sites spanning a soil nutrient and water availability gradient in Michigan's Manistee National Forest.