RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rebecca Hewitt is a PhD student at University of Alaska Fairbanks with Terry Chapin and Teresa Hollingsworth looking at post-fire fungal limitation on seedling establishment in the boreal and tundra. She is interested in treeline dynamics, plant-fungal interactions, fire ecology, and plant physiology. Before starting school at UAF she worked as a research assistant in the Holbrook Lab at Harvard University, the Inouye Lab and the Jones Lab at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab in Colorado, completed a research internship at Archbold Biological Station, Florida, and conducted research with Conservation International in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
EDUCATION
She has a BA in Environmental Studies and Biology from Middlebury College, Vermont.
BIOGRAPHY
Hewitt R. E. and E. S. Menges. 2008. Allelopathic effects of Ceratiola ericoides (Empetraceae) on germination and survival of six scrub species. Plant Ecology 198: 47-59.
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