Ed Hill

My research interests include quantitative and adaptive silviculture, juvenile tree development, structural heterogeneity of forests, forest microclimates, and tree ecophysiology.  My current projects look at how juvenile trees tolerate abiotic stress at different stages of maturity (i.e., how they grow up), how microclimates vary with spatial structure of trees, and how juvenile physiological responses like stomatal conductance reflect fundamental resource changes.  I work in many forest types of the southern Rocky Mountains, from high-elevation spruce-fir forests to low-elevation pinyon-juniper woodlands.  Prior to forest ecology, I studied military-state relations and African studies in Washington, D.C., and worked in business – never too late to change careers.