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Dr. Travis Huxman, Professor

Positions and Education

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2010 - present
Director of UA Science: Flandrau, 2010 - present
Director, The University of Arizona Biosphere 2 and B2 Earthscience, 2007 - present
Associate Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2007 - 2010
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2001 - 2007
Ph.D. Biology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000
M.S. Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, 1996
B.S. Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, 1993

Research Interests
I am a broadly trained plant physiological ecologist who is interested in plant evolution and global change. My research asks questions about plant physiological processes in an ecological and evolutionary context, with implications for how organisms work and how ecosystems function. These questions are based in understanding (1) how plants acquire and allocate resources to survival, growth, and reproduction, (2) how global change impacts these processes, and (3) what these changes mean to how ecosystems function. This includes both how past climates have influenced plant evolution and how future climates may alter relationships between plants and their environment. Included in this line of research are other aspects of global changes, such as non-native species invasions. A primary goal of my future research is in trying to understand how climate change may affect population, community and ecosystem processes through changes in individual plants using both experimental and modeling efforts.

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Read a profile of Travis Huxman in the Spring 2003 issue of Desert News & Views (pdf file)

PubMed list of publications for Travis Huxman
Selected Publications
  1. Pataki DE, Huxman TE, Jordan DN, Zitzer SF, Coleman JS, Smith SD, Nowak RS, Seemann JR (2000) Water use of Mojave Desert shrubs under elevated CO2. Global Change Biology 6:889-890.

  2. Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, Loik ME, Smith SD (2000) Effects of extreme high temperature, drought and elevated CO2 on photosynthesis of the Mojave Desert evergreen shrub, Larrea tridentata. Plant Ecology 148:185- 195.

  3. Hamerlynck EP, Huxman TE, Smith SD, Nowak RS, Redar 5, Loik ME, Jordan DN, Zitzer SR, Coleman JS, Seemann JR (2000) Photosynthetic responses of contrasting Mojave Desert shrub species to elevated CO2 concentration at the Nevada Desert FACE Facility. Journal of Arid Environments 44:425-436.

  4. Loik ME, Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Smith SD (2000) Low temperature tolerance and cold acclimation for seedlings of three Mojave Desert Yucca species exposed to elevated CO2. Journal of Arid Environments 46:43-56.

  5. Smith SD, Huxman TE, Zitzer SF, Charlet TN, Housman DC, Coleman JS, Fenstermaker LK, Seemann JR, Nowak RS (2000) Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem. Nature 408:79-82.

  6. Huxman TE, Hamerlynck Er, Smith SD (1999) Reproductive allocation and seed production in Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens at elevated CO2. Functional Ecology 13:769-777.

  7. Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Loik ME, Smith SD (1998) Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of three southwestern Yucca species to elevated CO2 and high temperature. Plant, Cell & Environment 21: 1275-1283.

  8. Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Moore BD, Smith SD, Jordan DN, Zitzer SF, Nowak RS, Coleman JS, Seemann JR (1998) Photosynthetic down-regulation in Larrea tridentata exposed to elevated atmospheric C02 Interaction with drought under glasshouse and field (FACE) exposure. Plant, Cell & Environment 21:1153-1161.

  9. Huxman TE, Hamerlynck EP, Jordan DN, Salsman KL, Smith SD (1998) The effects of parental CO2 environment on seed quality and subsequent seedling performance in Bromus rubens. Oecologia 114:202-208.

  10. Huxman TE, Loik ME (1997) Reproductive patterns of two varieties of Yucca whipplei (Liliaceae) with different life histories. International Journal of Plant Sciences 78:113-120.

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