Lakshmi Narayan

PhD Candidate

Education

Dartmouth College, B.A. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, 2006

Research Interests

Forestry

Research Description

My research is on the spatial clonal patterns of coast redwood.  By incorporating genetic data into forest structure indices, I hope to provide a framework that incorporates genotype data in a way that is meaningful to forest managers.  Additionally, I hope that my work will provide insight about the reproductive ecology of coast redwood and describe clonal diversity throughout the range of this species.

Selected Publications

Bagchi, R., Swingfield, T., Gallery, R.E., Lewis, O.T., Gripenberg, S., Narayan, L., and R.P. Freckleton. 2010. Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree. Ecology Letters 13(10): 1262-1269.

Honors and Awards

National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2013

Save the Redwoods League, Redwood Research Grant, 2009-2010