My research revolves around understanding how forest management and environmental conditions shape forest structure and ecosystem resilience in the context of global change. I study how tree growth and physiology, local competition, and understory vegetation respond to silvicultural thinning in a climate-sensitive pinyon-juniper ecosystem.
Admittance Semester and Year, Program
Fall 2024, PhD in Ecosystem Sciences
Education
BS, Ecology and Evolution, 2022, University of Pittsburgh
MS, Sustainability, 2024, Chatham University
Research Labs
Forest and Woodland Ecology Lab
Selected Publications
- Revenis, G. G., Carson, W. P., & Utz, R. (2026). Deer exclusion and invasive plant control enhance native plants but fail to restore diversity in a peri-urban forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 56, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2026-0020
- Revenis, G. G., Utz, R., Muzika, R., Diggins, T. P., & Carson, W. P. (2025). Large Boulders Provide Refuge for Browse‐Sensitive Species and Reveal a Legacy of Overbrowsing and Shifting Baselines. Applied Vegetation Science, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.70021
Selected Presentations
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Revenis, G., Ramsey, K., Urza, A., Weisberg, P., Redmond, M. (2025, September). Dryland forest resilience to drought: Pinus edulis radial growth increases following high-intensity thinning. Oral presentation presented at the Pinyon-Juniper Session, Biennial Conference, Flagstaff, AZ.
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Revenis, G., Ramsey, K., Urza, A., Weisberg, P., Redmond, M. (2025, August). Dryland forest resilience to drought: Effects of silvicultural thinning on Pinus edulis radial growth. Oral presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD.
Forest ecology, plant community ecology, silviculture, disturbance ecology
