Functional Landscape Ecology

Our lab investigates how landscapes and their components function in response to interactive global change drivers. We seek to better understand mechanisms regulating landscape dynamics and provide information for transitioning towards sustainable development.

We are part of the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California Riverside.

Recent Publications

Jenerette GD and A Chatterjee. In Press. Soil metabolic pulses: water, substrate, and biological regulation. Ecology

Ogle K, RW Lucas, LP Bentley, JM Cable, GA Barron-Gafford, A Griffith, D Ignace, GD Jenerette, A Tyler, TE Huxman, ME Loik, SD Smith, DT Tissue. In Press. Differential daytime and nighttime stomatal behavior in plants from North American deserts. New Phytologist

Jenerette GD, GA Barron-Gafford, AJ Guswa, JJ McDonnell, and JC Villegas. In Press. Organization of complexity in water limited ecohydrology. Ecohydrology

Barron-Gafford GA, RL Scott, GD Jenerette, EP Hamerlynck, TE Huxman. In Press. Temperature and precipitation controls over leaf- and ecosystem-level CO₂ flux along a woody plant encroachment gradient. Global Change Biology

New Opportunities

February 2012

We have funding for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct land surface modeling of carbon, water and nitrogen trace gases in the broad range of land-covers in the southwestern United States. Extensive data are being collected through ongoing campaigns in wildland, urban, and agricultural ecosystems. Please contact Darrel Jenerette directly for more information.