the moore ecohydrology lab
College of Agriculture, Texas A&M University
The Moore Lab seeks to understand how ecosystem management relates to the water cycle - by changing vegetation type, amount, and structure. Distinctly interdiciplinary, our research in the field of ecohydrology is driven by science questions, spans many types of ecosystems, and utilizes a variety of measurement tools.
WHAT IS ECOHYDROLOGY?
Ecohydrology is the study of how vegetation affects the water cycle, and how the water cycle affects ecosystems. Human-induced land use changes (the former) are the primary focus of my current research program; however, my goal in the next five years is to expand my research program to include how altered river flows affects riparian ecosystems (the later), bringing the plant-water connection full circle.
RECENT WORK
Recent work has been in ecosystems subject to enroachment by woody plants or invasions by non-native species in semiarid environments where water is most limiting.
