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Travis E. Huxman
Director, UA Biosphere 2 & B2 Earthscience

Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0036

phone: (520) 626-1229
email: huxman@email.arizona.edu

office: Marshall 526
lab: BioSciences West 431

Ph.D. Biology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2000.

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.