School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Washington State University

Richard A. Gill

Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences

Ecosystem Responses to a Changing World

Our lab’s research interests lie at the intersection between basic biogeochemical research and global change biology. By bringing together skills in both biogeochemistry and plant ecology, we are focused on accomplishing three central goals:

 

1. Understand how belowground plant and microbial dynamics mediate ecosystem processes;

2. Identify possible feedback mechanisms between plant and soil processes that may be sensitive to global change, particularly focusing on processes controlling carbon sequestration;

3. Bridge basic and applied ecological research to influence natural resource management, specifically with applications to climate change and land-use change.

 

These goals arise from the need to understand and predict how vegetation and ecosystems will respond to both natural and anthropogenic environmental changes in the coming decades and century.

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Washington State University

PO Box 64-4430

Pullman, Washington 99164

(509) 335-8538

To contact us:

Phone: 509-335-8538

E-mail: rgill@wsu.edu