NWT welcomes Dr. Warren Sconiers to join our team this summer!

Niwot Ridge LTER is welcoming some exciting new additions to our NWT team this summer! We will be posting introductions/welcomes to each new researcher in the upcoming weeks. This week we would like to welcome Dr. Warren Sconiers (wsconiers@ozarks.edu) who will be joining our team with an NSF ROA award.

Dr. Warren Sconiers is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of the Ozarks. His research program examines the effects of climate change on arthropod diversity and plant-insect interactions through changes in plant physiology in natural and agricultural settings. In addition, he researches bacteriophage diversity and genome characteristics through bacteriophage discovery and bioinformatics. As an REU studying invasive plant interactions at University of California, Irvine, Dr. Sconiers worked with Dr. Katharine Suding studying the interactions between plant phenology and changes in nitrogen, snowpack, and temperature.

At NWT, Drs. Sconiers and Suding will be studying arthropod diversity and well as nutritional and allelochemical changes in flower nectar in response to climate change. There have been relatively few studies that explore arthropod diversity at higher latitudes in the NWT region, and particularly those comparing regional and local changes in diversity in response to changing climate. They hope to find relationships between changing climate, plant communities, and subsequent changes in nectar composition and arthropod diversity.

 https://ozarks.edu/about/personnel-directory/warren-b-sconiers-ph-d/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Warren_Sconiers