Michigan State University, Plant Biology Department
This is a central theme in the Brudvig Lab. To answer it, we take a plant community approach, coupling restoration and landscape ecology to 1) seek the basic underlying drivers of ecological communities across space and time and 2) apply this knoweldge to the field of restoration ecology.
5/2012 Brett has accepted a faculty position! Starting in August, he will be an Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Ecology at Eastern Connecticut State University. Fantastic news and a huge congratulations to Brett!
5/2012 Welcome to new Brudvig Lab graduate students Dan Brickley, Anna Groves, and Chad Zirbel – we look forward to your arrivals to MSU in August!
4/2012 New paper in Ecology - landscape connectivity modifies local-regional species richness relationships during succession.
4/2012 New paper in Ecological Applications showing how corridors can promote fire – a long-untested conservation concern.
1/20 – 1/21/2012 MI Stewardship Network meeting. Emily and Lars present on prairie restoration and community assembly; Mitch Lettow, Doug Landis, and Lars give two presentations on oak savanna restoration and pollination.
12/13 – 12/17/2011 Chris makes a trip to MSU for a bit of writing. He introduces Lars to Gueuze!
12/7 – 12/11/2011 Lars is at SRS to work with John Herrmann, our new Corridor Project postdoc. Welcome to the project, John!
11/29-12/1/2011 Lars heads to D.C. for the annual SERDP meeting and presents a poster on land-use legacies, soil compaction, and longleaf understory diversity.
11/2011 The e360 details our work to restore longleaf pine woodlands in the Southeast. Joe is the star of the article! Check it out.
11/2011 New publication in Landscape Ecology investigating seed predation as a mechanism for biodiversity spillover.