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Plant Ecology and Climate Change Lab

![]() C starvation or hydraulic failure?Seedlings in the greenhouse getting ready for the shade and dry-down experiment | ![]() Sun-up at the ArbDaybreak at the U-M Nichols Arboretum | ![]() ISROLab photo from our summer 2019 trip up to Isle Royale National Park as part of a research project measuring the effects of moose herbivory on growth and production of native forests. |
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![]() MOOSEThis guy decided to visit us as we were camping on Siskiwit Bay during our Isle Royale trip. | ![]() Mikaila Davis, one of my mentees in the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, taking measurements for her independent research project. | ![]() Greenhouse seedlings getting ready for over-wintering outside the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. |
![]() Early spring canopy conditionsAt the beginning of spring, seedlings have access to much more sunlight in the understory than they do once the canopy closes. | ![]() Acer saccharum expandedOnce the leaves have expanded, the plant turns from a carbon source to a carbon sink as it begins to assimilate carbon via photosynthesis. | ![]() NatureCrawl 12.2021Division of Botany table for the 2021 CMNH Nature Crawl |
![]() Spring flowers at Barking SlopesAbby Yancy helping Richard and Mason identify spring bloomers in her leaf litter removal plots |
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