Organization
Ecosystem Laboratory
Email
pfsullivan@alaska.edu

Location

Anchorage , Alaska 99508
United States

Bio

Dr. Sullivan's research investigates feedbacks between climate and terrestrial ecosystems of the Arctic and Boreal. He uses both observational and experimental approaches to answer questions covering a range of spatial scales from individual leaves and fine roots to the landscape. His recent projects have examined biogeochemical processes during winter, consequences of plant-herbivore interactions for ecosystem carbon cycling, implications of drying and vegetation succession for biogeochemical cycling in boreal wetlands and the causes and feedback consequences of changes in treeline.

Science Specialties

ecology, biogeochemistry, global change

Current Research

1. Climate-vegetation interactions 2. Treeline 3. Plant-herbivore interactions and wetland biogeochemistry