Tali Lee

Education

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Plant Biological Sciences - 2001
• B.S. Grand Canyon University - 1988

Courses

• Biol 211 Organismal Form and Function
• Biol 333 Plant Physiology
• Biol 195 Plants and Society
• Biol 485 Issues in Biology

Research - Plant Physiological Ecology

• How plants adjust physiologically to prevailing environmental conditions and the implications these adjustments have on species interactions, community dynamics, restoration efforts and our ability to predict plant response to global change
• Physiological determinants of plant growth responses to global change factors such as elevated atmospheric CO2, increase N availability, and species richness (http://www.biocon.umn.edu/).
• Physiological mechanisms underlying population oscillations in Northern wild rice.
• Selected publications:
  

  Reich PB, Hobbie S, Lee TD, Ellsworth D, West JB, Tilman D, Knops J, Naeem S, and Trost J. (2006). Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2. Nature 440:922-925.
     
  Lee TD, Reich PB, Bolstad PV. (2005). Acclimation of leaf respiration to temperature is rapid and related to specific leaf area, soluble sugars and leaf nitrogen across three temperate deciduous tree species. Functional Ecology 19:640-647.
     
  West JB, HilleRisLambers J, Lee TD, Hobbie SE, Reich PB. (2005). Legume species identity and soil N supply determine symbiotic nitrogen-fixation responses to elevated atmospheric CO2. New Phytologist 167:523-530.

Contact information:
Phillips Hall 346
Department of Biology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Ph: 715-836-5087
Fax: 715-836-5089
email: leetd@uwec.edu