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    • Waring Ecology Lab

      Plant, microbial, and ecosystem ecology

    • About the Lab

      Climate change is caused by an imbalance in the global carbon cycle - human activity has increased the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. To predict and mitigate the effects of climate change, we need to understand how carbon flows between the atmosphere and its two other major reservoirs on land: plants and soils. The Waring Ecology Lab at Imperial College London investigates how the ecology of plant and soil microbial communities influences the carbon cycle and its feedbacks on climate change. Read more about our research and the people involved in these efforts!

    • Lab News

      July 3 2020

      Bonnie will be discussing the role of trees in fighting climate change in a panel at London Climate Action Week - register here!

      June 1 2020

      The Waring Ecology Lab has moved to its new home at Imperial College London! We are thrilled to be a part of this vibrant research community.

    • Where we work

      The Waring lab travels all over the world to study the soil carbon cycle and its feedbacks to global change. Our current projects span the tundra to the tropics... check out our site photos below!

      Guopeng is conducting experiments within an ecosystem warming experiment (established by our collaborators Sasha Reed, Colin Tucker, and others at the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center) near Moab, UT

      Karen Foley is examining controls on greenhouse gas production by soil microbes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, AK

      A view from one of Jess's study trees in Monteverde, Costa Rica, where she is examining carbon cycling in canopy soils

    • Waring Lab press

      Q&A: Is planting trees the answer to climate change?

      July 2020

      Imperial College London News

      London Climate Action Week Panel: Forests and Climate Change

      July 2020

      London Climate Action Week

      USU ecologist receives DOE grant to study soil's role in carbon cycle

      July 2019

      Utah State Today

      Deep breath: USU ecologist probes soil respiration responses to climate

      June 2017

      Utah State Today

      Historical rainfall levels are significant in carbon emissions from soil

      29 May 2017

      EurekAlert!

      So the climate is changing - what's the role of soil organic carbon?

      May 2017

      Utah Forest News

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