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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
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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
Physiological ecology and niche separation in polyploid ferns
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Cycads
Cycad physiology, ecology, and evolution
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Drought Stress
Mechanisms underlying drought responses in vascular plants
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Crop Legumes
Consequences of domestication; phenotyping, and trait selection in legumes
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Contact me
Christopher Krieg, Ph.D. Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin Madison WI 54706 ckrieg[at]wisc[dot]edu |
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