Seton Bachle, PhD
Plant Ecophysiologist
Dr. Seton Bachle (Postdoctoral Fellow)
I am a plant ecophysiologist with broad interests in plant ecology, plant responses to global environmental change & ecosystem drivers, plant anatomy, and grassland systems. My research utilizes a combination of experimental and observational approaches in both field and laboratory environments. My approach/perspective on plant ecophysiology is to combine measurements across a wide range of spatial scales to link cellular-level variation in leaf structure to leaf-level and ecosystem responses to climate change. My research has focuses on grassland systems because of my passion for these systems and the need to increase data on these systems. I intend to focus on grasslands in the future, but am broadly interested in a variety of ecological systems including savannas, forests, and drylands
Recent Articles
Tooley, EG., Bachle, S., Keen, RM., Nippert, JB. (2022). Canopy structure and photosynthetic rate drive high leaf area index in a woody encroaching shrub. Tree Physiology.
Bachle, S., J.B. Nippert (2022) Climate variability supersedes grazing to determine the anatomy and physiology of a dominant grassland species. Oecologia. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-022-05106-x.***February Cover***
Smith, MD., Wilkins, K., et al (Bachle, S included). (2024). Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309881120