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Trait-based approaches to understanding ecological processes and ecosystem management

Jennifer Funk is an Associate Professor of Plant Sciences at UC Davis. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD from Stony Brook University. She also conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Vitousek at Stanford University. She recently moved to the University of California Davis from Chapman University, where she was on the faculty for 13 years. She studies how plant functional traits drive ecological processes such as invasion, community assembly, and nutrient cycling. Her approach combines theory and experiments, and her findings have increased our understanding of plant resource use, performance, and competition. She is particularly interested in how invasive species out-compete native species for resources in arid and nutrient-poor habitats and how to use that information to restore native plant communities. She has worked extensively in Hawaii and all five Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. You can contact Dr Funk and find more information about her research at the website https://funk.ucdavis.edu/