Dr. Thomas W. Boutton
Regents Professor & Texas AgriLife Faculty Fellow
The focus of my current research includes the study of biogeochemistry in relation to vegetation change
in natural and managed ecosystems; the effects of land use patterns and
climate change on the carbon and nitrogen cycles; responses of ecosystems to
changes in climate and atmospheric composition; reconstruction of paleoenvironments; and the application of stable isotope
techniques
to ecological and biogeochemical research. I teach two graduate level classes (Principles of Ecosystem Science and Management; and
Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems), and direct the Stable Isotope Laboratory,
which provides unique analytical capabilities
to faculty and students conducting
research in ecology and
environmental sciences.
