People

Susan Harrison, Principal Investigator

Barbara Going, Doctoral Student

Brian L. Anacker, Doctoral Student

David A. Schmidt, Research Associate

Erik Frenzel, Master's Student

Kara A. Moore, Post-Doctoral Researcher

Matthew R. Brown, Master's Student

Annette Bieger, Lab Technician

Hugh Safford, Adjunct Faculty

Jill Baty, Lab Technician

Sam Veloz, Post-Doctoral Researcher

Former lab members

 

 

Current Projects

Environmental change in the Klamath-Siskiyou region, 1949-present (Harrison)

Effects of climate change on serpentine endemic plants (Harrison, Going)

Phylogenetic community structure across environmental stress gradients (Anacker)

Evolutionary pathways to serpentine endemism in the California flora (Anacker, Justen Whittall, and Harrision).

Fire ecology of forest orchids (Brown)

Dispersal versus niche limitation in California grassland annuals (Moore)

Temporal variation in grassland community diversity (Elmendorf)

Herbivory and its role in serpentine endemism (Anacker, Going, Harrison)

Project Archives

Research in the Harrison lab seeks to understand the processes that shape and maintain plant species diversity at the landscape scale, where small-scale forces such as competition and facilitation interact with large-scale forces such as niche evolution and dispersal.

Susan Harrison is also the Davis Campus Director for the University of California Natural Reserve System

See selected publications for more information on lab research.

The Harrison Lab

Harrison lab circa 2008: From left to right, Dave Schmidt, Matt Brown, Susan Harrison, Brian Anacker, Kara Moore, Hugh Safford, and Barbara Going (not present: Peter March).