Loik Lab
Plant and ecosystem responses to climate change

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Student Research Projects


Student research and training are an important part of the activities in my laboratory. Our field campaigns regularly include high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral research assistants.

Examples of current and past graduate student and senior thesis research projects:

Remote sensing of treeline migration.

Impacts of snow depth and N deposition on cheatgrass, Bromus tectorum.

Impacts of snow depth changes on Jeffrey Pine recruitment.

Impacts of climate change on invasion by Bromus tectorum.

Effects of enhanced precipitation on high temperature tolerance for the Great Basin shrub Purshia tridentata.

Freezing tolerance and cold acclimation for Artemisia tridentata seedlings along an elevation gradient.

Patterns of reproductive allocation for different varieties of Yucca whipplei.