I am a postdoctoral research fellow in silviculture and applied forest ecology, with the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station in Redding, CA, funded through the Oak Ridge Institution for Science and Education. I am currently leveraging new and previously-collected data from long-term experimental plots to evaluate the benefits and trade-offs of competing vegetation control and fertilization for reforestation success under climate change.
I received B.S. in Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity at the University of California, Davis and a dual-Ph.D. in Forestry and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at Michigan State University. I also have a graduate certificate in Forest Carbon and Climate Science from Michigan State University. |
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News and announcements:
12/15/2023 - The manager tool "Adjusting Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) predictions of reforested ponderosa pine stands ", created with Carol J. Shestak and Christopher E. Looney at the USDA-FS Pacific Southwest Research Station, is live!
11/15/2023 - I successfully defended my dissertation and will receive a dual-PhD in Forestry and Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior at the end of 2023! Tree seedling mycorrhizal type and functional traits interact with light availability to mediate plant-soil feedbacks. ProQuest.
10/23/2023 - A paper from my dissertation was accepted for publication at Plos One!
Wood KEA, Kobe RK, Ibáñez I, McCarthy-Neumann S. 2023. Tree seedling functional traits mediate plant-soil feedback responses across a gradient of light availability. Plos One. PDF
10/16/2023 - A paper from my dissertation was accepted for publication at Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution!
Wood KEA, Kobe RK, McCarthy-Neumann S. 2023. Tree seedling shade tolerance arises from interactions with microbes and is mediated by functional traits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. PDF