I am an Assistant Professor of Ecology in the department of Environmental Science, Policy & Sustainability at Southern Oregon University. I received my PhD in 2018 from University of California, Davis, where I studied the impacts of fire, drought, and priority effects on plant communities, advised by Dr. Truman Young and Dr. Susan Harrison. My most recent postdoc research included developing methods to quantify species interactions in diverse communities, applied to patterns of coexistence in California grasslands, advised by Dr. Lauren Shoemaker at the University of Wyoming and Dr. Lauren Hallett at the University of Oregon. My previous postdoc was working with Dr. Anu Eskelinen at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity (iDiv) on trait-based resilience to interacting global change drivers.

Contact me: wernerc@sou.edu

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