Cynthia Chang (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Dr. Cynthia Chang is a plant ecologist who's research seeks to understand role of disturbance and global change on plant communities.
Education
- Yale University
- Ph.D. – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- M.S. – Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- University of Maryland – College Park
- B.S. – Environmental Science and Policy
Courses
- BBio180 Introduction to Biology: Ecology and Evolution
- BBio471 Plant Ecology
- BBio495 Investigative Biology
- BST210 Social Justice in STEM
- BCORE110 Learning Ecology through Storytelling (co-taught with Dr. Jennifer Atkinson)
Teaching Interests
Ecology, Research in Ecology, Social Justice in STEM, Data Science, Storytelling as Science Communication
Research and Scholarship Interests
Plant Ecology, Community Ecology, Global Change Ecology, Disturbance Ecology
Creative Interests
STEM children picture books
Selected Publications
- Chang, C., Halpern, C., Antos, J., Avolio, M., Biswas, A., Cook, J., del Moral, R., Fischer, D., Holz, A., Pabst, R., Swanson, M., Zobel, D. 2019. Testing conceptual models of early plant succession across a disturbance gradient. Journal of Ecology. 107(2), 517-530
- Chang, C. and HilleRisLambers, J. 2019. Trait and phylogenetic patterns reveal deterministic community assembly mechanisms on Mount St. Helens. Plant Ecology. 220(7-8), 675-698
- Avolio, M., Forrestel, E., Chang, C., La Pierre, K., Burghardt, K., Smith, M. 2019. Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist. 223(3), 1106-1126
- Chang, C. and HilleRisLambers, J. 2016. Integrating succession and community assembly perspectives. F1000 Research. 5(F1000 Faculty Rev): 2294