Dr. Robert G. Knox
Dr. Robert G. (Bob) Knox is a Co-PI on the FED project. His responsibilities combine research in forest community and ecosystem ecology with design of models and statistical analyses. He is the primary person responsible for the FED modeling environment and is actively involved in spatial heterogeneity studies and scaling from individual plants and habitat patches to ecosystems. His work continues the study of ecosystem constraints on vegetation dynamics and feedbacks among vegetation dynamics, soil processes, and forest structural properties, especially consumer/resource interactions. Collaborating with other investigators, he is developing appropriate statistical and graphical analyses of spatial and temporal patterns in data from field sites and of comparable data simulated by FED models. Dr. Knox joined the Biospheric Sciences Branch in 1991. Research for his doctorate in botany emphasized statistical ecology methods for problems in forest population dynamics and community composition. He has participated in long-term studies of forest demography in North Carolina and southeast Texas. Dr. Knox is also a PI for a BOREAS effort that emphasizes modeling carbon and water flux from boreal forest canopies.