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David Ackerly - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Climate change poses special challenges to plant taxa that depend on isolated habitat patches like montane meadows. Opportunities to move and/or adapt may be limited. Evolutionary adaptation requires heritable variation in adaptive traits, which is often low for isolated populations. Non-evolutionary adaptation via phenotypic plasticity depends on individuals...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Ackerly - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Habitat restoration will only provide long-term benefits if restored vegetation is resilient to climate change. Sourcing plant material from distant climate zones may achieve climate resilience but carries other risks. Restorationists need a framework for sourcing climate-resilient plant material locally. Our research addresses this problem for Lemmon’s willow...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Ackerly - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Levant is an understudied biodiversity hotspot that harbors one of the world’s richest extratropical floras. This project aims to improve our understanding of the distribution of vascular plant diversity of Western Lebanon and Syria through an evolutionary lens. We will sequence DNA from each genus native to the Levant...
Biological & Health Sciences