Investigation of the Effects of Climate Change on Tree Fecundity and on Associated Consumers in the French Alps

Investigation of the Effects of Climate Change on Tree Fecundity and on Associated Consumers in the French Alps

ethan ready

2019 DSRF Award Winner Ethan Ready

I went to Grenoble, France this summer to do research with Dr. Jim Clark, a Duke professor currently stationed at IRSTEA, France's environmental and agricultural research institute. I conducted tree surveys of forest plots in the Alps to track tree reproduction. For my senior thesis, I will use the data that I collected, along with local climate data, to analyze if tree reproduction in the Alps has changed in response to climate change.