Welcome to the Houlton lab! Please explore the links for information about our research activities and achievements. Please feel free to contact Ben at bzhoulton ‘at’ ucdavis ‘dot’ edu with any queries.
Houlton group, 2008-2009. Left to right. Back row: Benjamin Houlton, Scott Morford; Front row: Edith Bai, Ida Fisher, Tiffany van Huysen, Kim Mayfield. (not pictured: Alison Marklein)
Quick News
- 5/19/09 - 5/21/09, Ben gave a talk at Penn State University's 17th annual Plant Biology Symposium in State College, PA. This year's symposium was on Plant-Soil Interactions in Future Climates. It was an excellent meeting, with talks from a very diverse group of scientists.
- 5/14/09, Congratulations to Edith and Ben on their paper, "Coupled isotopic and simulation modeling of gaseous N emissions from tropical rainforests", published in Global Biogoechemical Cycles
- 4/6/09, Congratulations to Edith for her recent paper, "Spatial variation of the stable nitrogen isotope ratio of woody plants along a topoedaphic gradient in a subtropical savanna", pubished in Oecologia; and to Alison for her recent paper, "Food Versus Biofuels: Environmental and Economic Costs”, published in Human Ecology
- 11/19/08, Some recent press about our work: Christian Science Monitor; UC Davis Dateline; Cal Aggie Newspaper
- 6/18/08, Some recent press about our work: UC Davis Researcher Leads Climate-Change Discovery; Solution for global puzzle of nitrogen-loving trees’; Researchers Explain Nitrogen Paradox in Forests
- 6/18/08, One of our latest studies, “A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere”, has been published in Nature
- 4/08, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided us with a $290,000 grant to conduct basic work on ecosystems processes and biogeochemical cycles .