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Eastern Sierra Jeffrey Pines
Eastern Sierra Jeffrey Pines
Restoring forests to fire-adapted conditions
eCO2 Research
eCO2 Research
Providing a novel CO2 enrichment experiment for plant research
Seedlings & Climate
Seedlings & Climate
Studying the interacting effects of water stress and eCO2 in California oaks
Field-based teaching as a tool for equity
Field-based teaching as a tool for equity
My pedagogy research examines (1) how field-based programs influence student peer networks; (2) how mentorship quality and composition interact with student identity in field settings. I am conducting research with the FUTURE in Biology team at UC Santa Cruz to generally characterize the mechanisms of field-based learning.
I presented my work at the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore this August! You can view the abstract for my talk here. Title: Social network analyses demonstrate community-building effects of ecology field programs.
PUBLICATIONS
Kouba, P. V., M. E. Gilbert, T. N. Buckley, and A. M. Latimer. 2025. TinyCO2: High-performance, low-cost CO2 enrichment for field-grown plants. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16:1389–1396.
Kouba, P. V., A. M. Latimer, D. J. N. Young, M. Odkins, D. M. Bell, I.R. Clark*, and M. P. North. 2025. Prescribed and natural fire help restore fire-adapted conditions in an Eastern Sierra Jeffrey pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 595:123010.
Nagy, R. C., J. K. Balch, … P. V. Kouba, … and K. Zhu. 2021. Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere 12:e03833.
Jevon, F. V., D. De La Cruz*, J. A. LaManna, A. K. Lang, D. A. Orwig, S. Record, P. V. Kouba, M. P. Ayres, and J. H. Matthes. 2022. Experimental and observational evidence of negative conspecific density dependence in temperate ectomycorrhizal trees. Ecology 103.
In Review/Submitted/In Prep:
Kouba, P. , A. Latimer, M. Gilbert, T. Buckley, S. Perry*, S. Patwardhan*. The rich get richer: Future CO2 levels are more beneficial to well-watered seedlings of native CA oaks. In prep.
Bhatti, H.A., L. M. Arcila Hernández, L. Balachandran, P. V. Kouba, D. A. Croll, G.H. Dayton, E. Marnocha, R. S. Beltran, E. S. Zavaleta. Refining Impact Assessment in Undergraduate STEM Education: Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Field-Based Learning Interventions. Submitted to CBE Life Sciences Education.
*Undergraduate researchers
ProQuest link to my Ph.D. Dissertation: "Once and Future Forests: Historical Reconstructions and Climate Change Experiments for California Pines and Oaks" (2024)
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