The Jones Lab

Plant ecology and biodiversity across populations and landscapes

Teaching and learning about the vastly ever changing rainforest environments of the Americas.

About

Teaching and Research

Teaching about ecology on plant-focused systems, and research directed towards forest ecology and response based on disruption of biotic and abiotic factor changes.

Population Ecology

Teaching BOT 442/542, with literature and lab experiments to understand a plant population’s ecological role.

Climate Response in Tropical and Local Forests

Research of tropical forests(Peru, Panama) and local forests(HJ Andrews), involving drought response of varying species.

Molecular Phenotyping Diversity

Determining changes in diversity of forest ecosystems based on environmental drivers.

Community Ecology

Teaching BOT 543, through field and computer exercises to learn about ecology of plant communities.

Pollinator Populations

Tracking and modeling response of keystone species loss of pollinators to plant species.

Plant and Fungal Biodiversity

Understanding the mechanisms of plant and Oomycetes interactions in the Pacific Northwest.

Branching discoveries

Comparing rainforest ecology between temperate and tropical habitats to understand community biodiversity in response to environmental and human changes to the ecosystem to identify conservational approaches.

Tropical Forests

  • Collaborate with local research teams.
  • Understanding effects of biotic and abiotic changes.
  • Evolution and conservation of highly biodiverse habitats.

Temperate Forests

  • Insight into Pacific Northwest forest ecosystems.
  • Discovery of changes based on local disruption.
  • Relating tropical forest research to local temperate forests.

“The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.”

Barry Commoner

Biologist, Harvard

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Andy Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Botany and Plant Pathology Department at Oregon State University. He has broad interests in the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms responsible for the origin and maintenance of plant diversity.
Dr. Jones is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.