Tara Trammell
John Bartram Assistant Professor of Urban Forestry
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-1387
Biography
Tara Trammell is a research ecologist and the John Bartram
Assistant Professor of Urban Forestry. Trammell leads the Urban Ecology Lab in
the Plant and Soil Sciences Department, which conducts research on
understanding human impacts on plants and soils in urban environments. In the
Urban Ecology Lab, a variety of field, lab, and modeling techniques are used to
understand controls on plant species composition and diversity and to assess
changes in plant-soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in urban ecosystems. Research
projects include examination of management impacts on lawn C and N cycling and non-native
plant invasion and sea level rise impacts on small forests. As the global urban
population continues to rise, the necessity for greenspaces in cities and towns
to provide ecosystem services expands. Trammell’s research program and
publication record, over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and eight invited
book chapters, focuses on understanding how global environmental change, such
as urbanization and plant invasion, alters terrestrial ecosystems embedded
within urban, suburban, and exurban landscapes.
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