Ecology/Evolutionary Biology Presentation: Fiona Jevon

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Temperate forests of New England: Regeneration dynamics and carbon responses to global change

Temperate forests are globally important ecosystems that store carbon, harbor biodiversity, and provide us with many crucial ecosystem services. New England’s forests are currently in era of transition due to climate change, novel pests, and human management decisions. In this talk we will explore how these forests persist by looking at how adult trees create feedbacks that can promote or hinder the success of their seedlings. We will also consider how the changing climate and human management strategies affect how much carbon is stored both above and belowground by these forests.

Fiona Jevon is a forest ecosystem ecologist studying how trees and soil respond and adapt to global change and human management. She works in the temperate forests of the eastern US, and especially loves the woods of New England, where she grew up. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale School of the Environment, where she uses a combination of field observations, field and lab experiments, and existing datasets from ecological networks to ask questions about the forest carbon cycle.