Welcome to the Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
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
Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM Graduate Program)
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program (EECB)
1910 East-West Road
Sherman Laboratory 101
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-6004 (Manoa office)
808-969-8253 (Hilo office)
808-956-6875 (Manoa lab)
808-969-8272 (Hilo lab)
litton@hawaii.edu
Research
in my laboratory addresses both basic and applied ecology at scales ranging from local to global. My
primary research focus
is the ecology and biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems, and much of my
research involves quantifying pools, fluxes and allocation
of carbon and nutrients 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 also conduct
research in restoration ecology, primarily from the standpoint of
restoring
ecosystem processes and services to degraded lands.
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 Ecosystem Ecology (NREM 680) and Restoration Ecology (NREM 682), and
undergraduate coursework in Natural Resource Management (NREM 301+L) and Applied Forest Ecology (NREM 480).
***Click here
for an article on research in the Ecosystem Ecology Lab from the
November 2009 issue of the CTAHR Research News Magazine.***
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