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Forest Ecology Home

The forest ecology group at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is made up of individuals from the Reich and Montgomery labs and the Center for Hardwood Ecology (Frelich) and is based in the Department of Forest Resources. The Hobbie, Cavender-Bares and Powers labs in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Ziegler and Kipfmueller labs in the Dept. of Geography are also participants in the group. Additionally, we collaborate with Tali Lee in the Biology Department at U of WI - Eau Claire, Cindy Hale at U of MN - Duluth, and Meredith Cornett at The Nature Conservancy.

Our "group" is open to anyone with an interest in forest ecology!

Opportunities

IN THE NEWS

Peter Reich wins major international award!!

2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Recent publications:

Rich, R., Frelich, L.., Reich, P., Bauer, M. 2010. Detecting wind-disturbance severity and canopy heterogeneity in boreal forest by coupling high-spatial resolution satellite imagery and field data. (.pdf) Remote Sensing of Environment 114:299–308.

Reich, P.B. 2009. Elevated CO2 reduces losses of plant diversity caused by nitrogen deposition. Science 326:1399-1402.   abstract    full text