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Currently, I'm advisor to 4 graduate students:
Eve Gasarch joined us in fall, 2008. She's working on species richness - resource patterns in the alpine.
Janet Prevet joined in fall, 2009. Her mission is to figure out how to control cheatgrass in the Colorado
Front Range. (not an easy assignment!)
Stower Beals initiated work on prairie dog-vegetation interactions in summer, 2010
Anastasia Maines took over from David Knochel on our spotted knapweed project that's been ongoing since 2002.
New and emerging topics involve a) the transformation of the lower montane forests (into meadows and Ponderosa savanna) along
the Colorado Front Range, and abiotic and biotic factors influencing changes in the Front Range grasslands.
My main research emphasis involves studying the causes and consequences
of biotic change, and specific topics are best described in my publications.
Publications
The 2008 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment capture this most succinctly.
Recent graduates from my lab include: Drs. David Knochel, Elisa Miller, Dan Liptzin, Nataly Ascarrunz, and Heather Reed