Danielle Creek

Danielle Creek

Forsker

  • Seksjon for fornybar energi og skogvitenskap

My research focuses on the impacts of global change drivers on ecosystems, with emphasis on plant hydraulic strategies under drought and coordination with other drought resistance traits. I am interested in how and why some trees die and yet others survive under drought and heat. The consequences of increasing tree mortality are vast, including reductions in productivity, carbon storage and biodiversity and, yet we still lack effective ways to predict and detect mortality events.

My research includes a combination of field- and laboratory-based physiological approaches to quantify plant functional traits and explore questions about contrasting responses to drought. I am really interested in bringing the gap between plant physiology- the how and why plants respond to climate stressors- with ability to detect plant-water stress and early signs of tree mortality at an ecosystem-scale using remote sensing technologies. This presents an exciting new frontier in global drought mortality research.