Heather Reynolds

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Research Interests

Dr. Reynolds' research interests are in mechanisms of vegetation processes, particularly competition and coexistence, with the goals of understanding vegetation patterns and their responses to abiotic and biotic environmental changes.  Within this broad area, I am especially interested in the importance of plant-soil and plant-microbe relationships, and the role of environmental heterogeneity.  I work primarily in herbaceous systems (prairie, old-field, forest floor).  In current work at KBS, I am collaborating with Kay Gross and Gary Mittelbach to examine the effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity, recruitment limitation, disturbance, and clonality on the composition and diversity of prairie grassland.