Stefania Mambelli

My research questions focus on understanding how plants respond to their environment, and how plant properties affect processes at the ecosystem scale. In particular, I am interested in the physiological mechanisms that control plant responses to the availability of resources such as water, light, nitrogen; the role of vegetation in carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles, including processes such as decomposition and carbon sequestration; the use of the natural variation of stable isotopes of N, C, H and O in plants and their environment to infer processes linked to resource cycling in the biosphere at various spatial and temporal scales.