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Todd Dawson is a Distinguished Professor in the Rausser College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the interface between plants and natural human-impacted environments, utilizing tools from physiological plant ecology, stable isotope biogeochemistry, and ecohydrology. The research group employs a diverse range of physiological methods, observations, experiments, and modeling to understand how ecophysiological characteristics of plants are shaped by their environments. Special emphasis is placed on plant form and function, exploring how plants adapt to environmental variations, both natural and anthropogenic. Research themes include examining community and ecosystem processes influenced by physiological characteristics, evaluating how limits on physiological tolerance affect adaptation, and investigating material exchange fluxes in ecosystems using stable isotope techniques. Todd has published extensively, with nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers and numerous book chapters, contributing significantly to the fields of physiological plant ecology and biogeochemistry.
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