RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in cold climate fungal community diversity and their shifts along a bioclimatic gradient from the low Arctic Tundra to the Polar Deserts. Furthermore I am studying the effects increased winter precipitation due to climate change on mycorrhizal diversity on shrubs and soil fungal communities.
EDUCATION
MSc – University of Minnesota, Applied Plant Science, 2004
BS/MSc – University of Rostock (Germany), Agronomy, 1995
BIOGRAPHY
Geml J, Laursen
GA, Timling I, McFarland J, Booth MG, Lennon N, Nusbaum HC, Taylor
DL. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic biodiversity assessment of
arctic and boreal ectomycorrhizal Lactarius Pers. (Russulales;
Basidiomycota) in Alaska, based on soil and sporocarp DNA. Molecular
Ecology 18: 2213–2227.
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