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Fog and Nature

Alivia Nytko

University of Tennessee 

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Bailey Lab 

Research

My research spans ecosystem ecology, microbial soil ecology, global change biology, and plant-soil feedbacks. I am interested in asking questions about the interactions between soil microbial communities and their hosts to predict range shifts and ecosystem functions associated with global change factors. To approach these questions, I use environmental & latitudinal gradients in the Western U.S. using Populus angustifolia and rarity gradients in Tasmania using a variety of Eucalyptus species.

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Bailey Lab & Study Systems

Connecting eco-evo dynamics and soil microbiomes to predict the effects of climate change

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Bailey Lab at UTK

Narrowleaf Cottonwood
(Populus angustifolia)

Populations of Populus angustifolia spanning a gradient from northern WY to southern AZ are used to characterize mycorrhizal communities and demonstrate connections between plant-soil and plant-atmosphere feedbacks.

Tasmanian Eucalyptus 

Twenty-nine native Tasmanian Eucalyptus species are used to link species interactions and genes to ecosystem functions under progressive rarity across the landscape

Forest Path

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1416 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916

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