Ecosystem Dynamics: Coe

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Kirsten K. Coe

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Post-doctoral Research Associate

Department of Biology

PO Box 118525

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

email: Kirsten K. Coe

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in terrestrial plant responses to global change, and plant-soil relationships in surface-level vegetation that influence, and are influenced by, global change factors. In particular, I am interested in how changes in precipitation regime and hydrology will influence biogeochemistry and carbon balance in dryland and tundra ecosystems. My research uses field and laboratory work from physiological to ecosystem scales to address three central questions:

How will alterations in inter- and intra-annual hydrological dynamics influence terrestrial carbon cycling?

How will ecophysiological changes and thresholds in performance and survival in plants manifest as drivers of ecosystem change?

How will bryophyte communities respond to global change, and what biogeochemical feedbacks exist at the plant-soil interface as a function of these responses?

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