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## Welcome to Taylor Lab!

Our research focuses primarily on how terrestrial plants respond-to and influence the environment in which they exist. How will terrestrial ecosystems respond to anthropogenic global change? Will increased plant growth help mitigate human CO2 emissions, or will plant growth be limited by some other resource? How will changing climate, CO2 concentrations, and disturbance regimes influence plant production, resource acquisition, and community structure? How do we incorporate answers to these questions into global Earth System Models? While primary focus is given at the ecosystem scale, these questions require us to view the world at the molecular, the individual physiological, and the community scales as well. Taylor lab research involves each of these levels of scope in persuit of a better understanding of the terrestrial biosphere.



 

  [### Alaina Bisson published in the current issue of Arnoldia!

 ](/news/2025/09/alaina-bisson-published-current-issue-arnoldia) September 29, 2025 

 Congratulations to Alaina Bisson who shares her research on root-microbial symbioses and leaf herbivory in the current issue of Arnoldia . Way to go, Alaina! 

 

 

   ![Pictured is the cover of the current issue of the journal, Arnoldia.  It features colorful trees with people walking in the foreground](/sites/g/files/omnuum7056/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Arnoldia%20cover.jpg?itok=3H8I3BW0) 

 



 

 

   [### Nikhil Chari and the roots of climate change

 ](/news/2025/08/nikhil-chari-and-roots-climate-change) August 22, 2025 

 Check out the following YouTube video in which Taylor lab grad student, Nikhil Chari, discusses the topic of his thesis research, root exudates and their role in the global carbon cycle. Great work, Nikhil! 

 

 

   ![Screenshot of a diagram showing the root exudation process](/sites/g/files/omnuum7056/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/Root%20exudates.png?itok=WT4Nzu-y) 

 



 

 

   [### Congratulations to Ben!

 ](/news/2025/04/congratulations-ben) April 30, 2025 

 The lab congratulates Ben Taylor who was elected as an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America. Way to go, Ben! 

 

 

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