Meagan Schipanski
Cropping Systems
Associate Professor
C111 Plant Sciences
Meagan.Schipanski@ColoState.edu
970-491-1320
Research Interests:
Our cropping systems research group focuses on understanding how plant-soil interactions mediate nutrient cycling and placing this research within broader social and economic contexts. The necessity of sustainably producing food has never been more evident as agriculture both contributes to and is impacted by many global change issues. In particular, increased climate variability requires the development of resilient, regionally adapted production systems. Our research applies concepts from ecology and biogeochemistry to study nutrient cycling and organic matter dynamics within cropping systems from rhizosphere to global scales using on-farm, experiment station, greenhouse, and modeling experiments. Central topics of our research group include:
• Plant mediation of nitrogen mineralization through shifts in belowground carbon allocation
• Utilizing plant diversity to improve nutrient use efficiency and cropping system resilience
• Interdisciplinary collaborations to integrate agroecological knowledge into policy and management
Please see my web page for more information.