The Coastal Plant and Ecotone Ecology Lab at Old Dominion University aims to understand properties and processes of the natural world, particularly at range limits, ecotones, and across habitat transitions. Research interests include wetland, coastal, and marine ecosystems, plant ecology, ecotones, plant-soil interactions, and blue carbon from individual to landscape scales. Current projects include salt marsh macroecology, blue carbon spatial ecology in salt marshes, mangrove freeze and wind tolerance, living shorelines, the coastal plant growing economy, carbon dynamics across the coastal seascape, and herpetofauna at the northern limit of longleaf pine.
Recent News:
-Zlatka Rebolledo Sanchez is awarded the Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship!
-New MS Researcher Cate Hemphill joins the lab, welcome Cate!
-Erik presents research at MMM6 (Cartagena Colombia)
-Julianne Jones is headed to the Gulf Coast for a position with the Longleaf Alliance! Congratulations!
-New publication providing conceptual framework for global salt marsh comparisons now out! See manuscript here.