Summary
This Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCoR Research Fellows project provides a fellowship to an Assistant Professor and training for a graduate student at the University of Wyoming. This work will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Kristina Anderson-Teixeira at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Through the fellowship, the principal investigator will test if extreme weather reduces forest productivity by increasing competitive interactions among trees. More species-rich forests tend to be more productive, but whether this will continue in the future is
