Our research seeks to better understand how forests will be affected by global change. We are primarily interested in how tree-level demographic processes interact with disturbance to create changing patterns of structure, biomass, and diversity within forest stands and landscapes. Our lab takes a quantitative approach to this topic by developing models to project how forests dynamics emerge from variation in demographic performance, whether among individual trees, among species, or across environmental gradients. By understanding how tree growth, mortality, and recruitment are controlled by different environmental factors, we can learn how processes such as climate change and disturbance affect the broader condition of forest ecosystems over time.
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Contact information:
Dr. Mark Vanderwel
Department of Biology, University of Regina 3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada Phone: 306-337-2544 mark.vanderwel (at) uregina.ca |
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