About
Justin Luong is an Assistant Professor of Working Lands and Restoration Ecology. He studies rangeland ecosystem responses to climate change, species invasions and conservation management with interdisciplinary methods that combine field, greenhouse and social science approaches. His work focuses on biodiversity, endangered species conservation, grazing management, functional traits, restorative agrivoltaics, bridging the science-practice gap and plant communities and restoration projects responses to climate stressors and varying land management practices. His research program has a strong focus on undergraduate training and research, and in supporting marginalized, especially LGBTQ+, identities.
ecological restoration, rangeland ecology and management, California climate change, physiological plant ecology
