Dr Daniel Laughlin is Professor of Plant Ecology in the Botany Department at the University of Wyoming on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. His research group seeks to understand where plants grow and how they interact to predict plant responses to global change and to improve efforts to restore native plant communities. He is an author of two books and has published over 125 papers on topics spanning comparative functional ecology, ecological modeling, and restoration ecology. His newest book ‘Plant Strategies: The Demographic Consequences of Functional Traits in Changing Environments’ (Oxford University Press) presents a conceptual synthesis of plant demography and ecophysiology to clarify what plant strategies are and how to test for their existence. He received his doctorate in Forest Science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona and before moving to Wyoming he served as Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. If he is not in his office, you are most likely to find him on a walk in the woods with his Labrador Retriever.
