Suzanne X. Ou
A5040913817- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Career Development and Diversity
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Green Space and Health
University of California, Santa Cruz
2025
Stanford University
2023-2024
Abstract As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where so diminished degraded that provides fewer types, much lower levels benefits. We review literatures on human–nature relationships, urban sustainability justice create an actionable definition ‘access nature’ can use advocate guide investments improve contexts....
Abstract Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances theory, identifies priorities, supports management strategies by linking data, ideas, tools. Accelerating challenges increases the need to focus synthesis on most pressing questions. To leverage input from broader community, we convened a virtual workshop with participants many countries disciplines examine how where can address key questions themes coming decade. Seven priority topics emerged:...
Summary Plant–soil feedback is a critical process in natural plant communities. However, it remains unclear whether greenhouse-measured microbial effects manifest systems with temporally separated growing seasons as classic experiments often overlook seasonal time lags and litter dynamics. We modified the two-phase experiment to study plant–soil for three Californian annual species. Our response phase used soil inoculum obtained either immediately after conditioning, six-month dry period...
Soil microorganisms can have profound impacts on plant community dynamics and received increasing attention in the context of plant-soil feedback. The effects soil microbes are classically evaluated with a two-phase experimental design that consists conditioning phase, during which plants modify microbial community, response biomass performance is measured as their to modification. Predicting community-level outcomes based these greenhouse results implicitly assumes microbe interactions...