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Ned Fetcher
Project Coordinator
Ph. D. 1977. Colorado State University
Research Interests
My research includes work on cold desert shrubs, ecology and demography of plants
in Arctic tundra, and physiological ecology of tropical plants. Presently I am investigating
shade tolerance in seedlings of temperate forests. One experiment is designed to test
the hypothesis that carbon gain is very similar for all species that grow in the understory
of temperate forests. This is a null hypothesis that will help to resolve whether
we can detect differences in carbon gain of differing functional groups. If two groups
as disparate as understory and canopy species are not significantly different in seasonal
carbon gain, then it is unlikely that we will be able to detect differences between
canopy species differing in shade tolerance.
Lehigh Gap Food Web
Honors and Awards
Bullard Fellowship - Harvard University (1991-1992)
University of Puerto Rico EPSCoR Productivity Award (1996
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