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Plant Ecology and Climate Change Lab
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Funders
Provides grant funding to remove invasive species in northeastern TN and to evaluate the effectiveness of various removal techniques.
Community Partners
Partnering on forest climate change research along the Appalachian Trail Corridor
Collaborating in the use of herbarium collections to better understand how climate change has affected plant traits and behaviors
Teaching (Field Ecology), educational outreach, and various research projects
Teaching, educational outreach, and various research projects
Teaching, educational outreach, and various research projects
Teaching (Field Ecology), educational outreach, and various research and restoration projects
Working toward a better understanding of wildflower and tree ecophysiology and species distributions along gradients of elevation and precipitation.
Science Communication
East Tennessee leaves are starting to change! Here's the science behind it (Oct. 17, 2025): Interview with WBIR for a story about the science behind fall colors.
What are spotted lanternflies and how to get rid of them (Sep. 29, 2025): Interview with WJHL for a story about lanternfly invasion in east Tennessee.
What climate change means for Pennsylvania’s spring wildflowers: Article in the Pittsburgh City Paper’s spring issue.
Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when trees leaf out above them: Article I coauthored for The Conversation covering Lee et al. (2022).
Libération: Ma place au soleil - French-language coverage of Lee & Ibáñez (2021a,b)
WESA - Climate change effects on wildflower phenological escape - Interview with Pittsburgh NPR affiliate WESA about Lee et al. (2022)
Inviting Biodiversity into Our Gardens seminar - Public seminar series hosted by the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. My talk was titled "Spring ephemeral wildflowers and their vulnerability to climate change". Linked video starts at about the one hour mark, but I encourage you to watch the presentation before mine as well by Dr. Urban-Mead.
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