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Celebrating 56 years as an ecologist and ESA member           Click here for my career path

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Measuring Copiapoa water stress and stem orientation in the Atacama Desert, 1979
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Rosenblatt Prize and election to the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
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Atacama Desert, made special by a solar eclipse on my 70th birthday, 2019

Ehleringer Lab research addressed four themes - click on categories to explore further



​Ecology

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​Physiology

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​Environmental drivers influencing populations and evolution

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​Forensics & humans

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