Our lab is focuses on the role of organisms in maintaining vital ecosystem processes and how flow regime alterations and land use and climate change may interact to influence these processes. Through our work, we contribute to the understanding of freshwater ecological systems and the interaction and feedbacks between the surrounding terrestrial landscape. We are particularly interested in how species traits, especially stoichiometric traits, influence structure and function within aquatic systems. To do this, we employ combination of field observational and mesocosm studies to understand how body stoichiomtery, remineralization rates, trophic ecology, threshold elemental ratios, and growth efficiencies respond under various conditions and states of physiological distress
