Title
Professor of the Graduate School

Department
Dept of Energy & Resources Group
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management


Faculty URL
https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/john-harte

Research Group
http://hartelab.weebly.com/

Email
jharte@berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-8553

Fax
(510) 642-1640


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Research Expertise and Interest
global change, ecology, sustainability, energy policy, theoretical ecology, biodiversityl

Research Description
Harte’s research focuses on the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, and climate. His work spans a range of scales, from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field manipulation experiments, the study of patterns in nature, and mathematical modeling. Two specific goals are to understand the nature and causes of patterns in the distribution and abundance of species and to understand the extent to which ecosystem responses to climate change may result in feedbacks to climate that can either ameliorate or exacerbate global warming. An overarching goal of his research is to understand the interdependence of human well-being and the health of ecosystems.
Learn more on the?Harte Lab website.