CHRISTOPHER KRIEG
  • RESEARCH
    • Polyploidy
    • Cycads
  • TEACHING
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • ABOUT ME

Plant Evolutionary Physiology

My research focuses broadly on understanding the evolution and ecological significance of plant function. To conduct my work, I often integrate aspects of physiology, ecology, biogeography, and evolution and utilize diverse methods including plant gas-exchange, hydraulics, stable isotopes, functional anatomy, species niche and distribution modelling, and often in an evolutionary context.

In short, the things I get most excited about tend to be related to:
1) fundamental Q's about how plants work,
2) the coordination of traits under stress, 
3) how traits determine distribution & niche,
4) why species' physiologies evolved as they did.
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Trait evolution
Niche evolution
Macroecology
Niche modelling
Trait modelling
Water-relations
Gas-exchange
​​Structure-function
In reality, my current projects are just as diverse as you might expect from my stated interests, and range from the ecophysiology of polyploid plants, conservation physiology of cycads, drought responses in vascular plants, and the phenotypic and functional consequences of domestication in crop legumes. ​Check out the links below for more information.

Polyploidy

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Reconciling polyploid niche and trait evolution in polyploid plants

Cycads

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Cycad physiology, ecology, evolution, and conservation

Stress Tolerance

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Mechanisms underlying abiotic stress responses plants

Crop Legumes

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Consequences of domestication; phenotyping, and trait selection in legumes

Contact me
Christopher Krieg, Ph.D.
Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin
​Madison WI 54706 
​ckrieg[at]wisc[dot]edu
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  • RESEARCH
    • Polyploidy
    • Cycads
  • TEACHING
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • ABOUT ME