Aimée T. Classen Research Group

The lab studies how warming and environmental change reorganize ecological communities and alter the flows of carbon, water, and nutrients through ecosystems. Researchers examine partnerships between plants and fungi that shape soil carbon storage and mediate ecosystem reorganization under warming. The group combines long-term experiments, field studies, global research networks, and ecological synthesis to understand ecosystem change. The lab leads coordinated research across nine mountains on five continents through the Warming and Removal in Mountains (WaRM) network to explore plant–warming interactions.