Led by Prof. Carl Bernacchi, the Environmental Crop Physiology Lab brings together postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and scientific staff to investigate how plants and ecosystems respond to environmental change. Our research focuses on the physiological and ecological responses of both natural and managed ecosystems to rising atmospheric CO₂, warming temperatures, shifting land use, and increasing climate extremes. We work across multiple scales—from individual leaves and organs to entire ecosystems and regions—to understand and predict how vegetation responds to global change. We employ an array of techniques, including biochemical, physiological, biophysical, micrometeorological, and ecological approaches. Our work is rooted in field-based research, using both natural settings and experiments with manipulated growth conditions, as well as controlled environment studies conducted in laboratories, greenhouses, and growth chambers.