Welcome to the Flory Lab!

Biological invasions are a leading cause of biodiversity loss and a driver of global environmental change. Research in the Flory Lab is focused broadly on understanding the ecology of biological invasions, including the community and ecosystem consequences of invasions, interactions between invasions and fire, evolution of introduced species, and accumulation of pathogens. New projects under development will investigate the invasion risk of biofuel crops and the interaction between invasions and climate change. In general, we seek to advance ecological knowledge of community assembly, structure, and succession, and to answer applied questions relevant to natural areas management.