Pamela H. Templer
I am broadly interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling, retention and loss. I am particularly interested in the impact that human activity, such as fossil fuel combustion, the introduction of non-native plant species and land use change, has on global elemental cycles. We are currently examining a variety of nitrogen (N) sources including rain, fog and anthropogenic N deposition and tracking these N inputs in forest ecosystems to understand whether they are assimilated by plants and micro-organisms, transformed to different forms of nitrogen or lost from the ecosystem. We currently work in temperate forests of the northeastern United States, redwood forests of California and tropical rainforests in Puerto Rico. Our efforts include using natural abundance and enriched stable isotopes in our laboratory and field techniques.
