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  Dr. Creighton M . Litton
Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management (NREM)
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR)
University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM)

Graduate Faculty
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program (EECB)

1910 East-West Road
Sherman Laboratory 101
Honolulu, HI 96822

808-956-6004 (office)
808-956-6875 (lab)
808-956-6539 (fax)

litton@hawaii.edu


My primary research focus is ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry of forested systems, although past and current work span many aspects of plant ecology. Much of my research involves quantifying pools, fluxes and allocation of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems to examine their plasticity and response to a suite of global change variables. Specifically, I am interested in how climate change, invasive species, disturbances, and their interactions impact plant-soil-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water, and nutrients. I am also interested in restoration ecology from the standpoint of restoring ecosystem processes and services on degraded lands. Research in my laboratory addresses both basic and applied ecology, at multiple scales ranging from specific local issues to general patterns and processes at global scales.

In line with the research in my laboratory, my teaching interests are in forest ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, global change biology, restoration ecology, invasive species ecology, and disturbance ecology. Currently, I teach graduate coursework in terrestrial ecosytem ecology and restoration ecology, and undergraduate coursework in natural resource management and forest ecology.

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