AS PLANT ECOLOGISTS, WE ARE INTERESTED in the broad topic of how plants interact with other plants, with animals, and with the physical environment around them. We also want to understand how interactions between plants and other organisms affect ecological processes at multiple scales.

The Plant Ecology Laboratory has developed a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary program since Dennis Whigham arrived at SERC in 1977. The laboratory's research efforts have been evenly divided between terrestrial and wetland ecosystems, including linkages between them. Research projects also span a wide range of ecological organization from the ecology of individual species to ecological processes and patterns at landscape scales.

As you browse through our web site, we hope that you will emerge with a better understanding of the complexities of natural systems dominated by green plants. We also hope that our web site will launch you into more specific explorations of the way that plants interact with their environment.

So, choose one of the themes listed on the menu at left, and begin your journey.