Lunch Seminar "Quantifying the Contributions of Roots and the Mycorhizosphere to Organic Matter Decomposition”

Adrian Finzi is a professor of Biology at Boston University whose research focuses on biogeochemistry and global change primarily in forest ecosystems and peatlands. [From his personal website]: “My research is primarily field based using observational and experimental approaches. I am particularly interested in how interspecific differences in resource uptake and loss affect the distribution of carbon and nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. I am also interested in the interaction between microbial activity and forest dynamics. Thus my perspective is generally integrative, focusing on how the different components of an ecosystem (soils, microbes, plant species) interact with the physical environment to affect biogeochemical cycling.”