The Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab at Michigan State University investigates how global climate change and human activities reshape terrestrial ecosystems across agricultural, forest, grassland, and urban landscapes.
We employ the eddy covariance (EC) method as the primary tool for continuous measurements of net ecosystem exchanges of CO2, H2O, CH4, and energy across seven Scale-Up Plots at KBS, spanning switchgrass, restored prairie, continuous corn fields, and a reference site.
Southeast Asia has emerged as a hotspot in climate change, land cover and land use change, geopolitical conflict, and societal change, motivating a NASA-supported synthesis of data, tools, models, and knowledge across 19 urban-rural continuums in 8 countries.
Machine learning, remote sensing, and field observations are integrated to support agricultural forecasting and climate risk decision support in Michigan.
