Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lichstein Lab
Led by Jeremy Lichstein · Biology
What we study
The Lichstein Lab studies how forests and other land ecosystems take up carbon and affect climate. They analyze nationwide forest inventory data, track tree growth and species changes, and improve computer Earth system models by adding plant traits and demography (computer models that simulate climate).
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Plants
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Aboveground biomass and seedling responses to forest disturbances across the conterminous United States
2026 · Forest Ecology and Management
Tracks how forest disturbances like fires and harvests change tree growth and seedling numbers.
- Slow and fast dispersers competing in heterogeneous landscapes: a comparative study of modeling perspectives
2026 · Journal of Theoretical Biology
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- Limitations to seed survival in burned and unburned Larix cajanderi forests in north-east Siberia
2026 · Figshare
Measures how wildfires affect seed survival and seedling growth in Siberian forests.
- Mycorrhizal strategy of non-native plants varies with biome and disturbance
2026 · Nature Ecology & Evolution
Finds that non-native plants use different fungi strategies depending on their biome and disturbance.
- Interspecific variation in leaf phenology and its relationship with plant traits in a seasonal tropical forest
2025 · Functional Ecology
Shows how leaf phenology varies among tree species in a tropical forest and relates to plant traits.
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