Exploring the assembly, diversity and dynamics
of ecological communities from local to global scales

Temperate Oak-Hickory Forest

Tyson Research Center, Missouri Ozarks

Functional-Trait Diversity in Tropical Trees

Madidi National Park, Bolivia

Prescribed Fire in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

Camp Whispering Pines, Louisiana

High-Diversity Tropical Forest

Los Amigos Biological Station, Peruvian Amazon

Black Oak (Quercus velutina) with Seed Predation

Tyson Research Center, Missouri Ozarks

High-Diversity Groundcover Plant Community in the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

Camp Whispering Pines, Louisiana

Welcome to The Myers Ecology Lab

We are a team of ecologists studying the processes that determine the assembly, diversity, and dynamics of ecological communities from local to global scales. Our research explores how the drivers of community assembly—species pools, dispersal, ecological niches, and ecological drift—shape patterns of biodiversity at different spatial scales and responses of biodiversity to environmental change. We explore these questions in a variety of plant communities spanning temperate and tropical forests, ecosystems shaped by natural and human-altered disturbances, and global hotspots of plant diversity.

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