plantTracker: An R package to translate maps of plant occurrence into demographic data

This R package was designed to transform long-term quadrat maps that show plant occurrence and size into demographic data that can be used to answer questions about population and community ecology.

Demographic mechansims of persistence for the rare monocarpic perennial Oenothera coloradensis

We used size-based integral projection models (IPMs) to examine the population dynamics of Oenothera coloradensis, a rare, endemic, monocarpic perennial forb, and determined whether any of five proposed demographic mechanisms for rare species persistence were acting in populations of this species.

Trait-mediated demographic response to drought in the Colorado shortgrass steppe

In this project, we synthesized 15 years of demographic data and species-level traits in a shortgrass steppe to determine whether the effects of leaf and root traits on growth and survival depend on seasonal water availability.