We are a research team focused on illuminating the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity and using our understanding to predict the stability of ecological systems in a changing world. Our approach is broad, bringing together field and lab experiments with natural history, mathematical models, and statistics.

We are based in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University. During the field season, you may also find us crouched among the wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab or knee-deep in a bogs at the University of Michigan Biological Station.

DICE Lab and family picnic at the Art Museum park (May 2024)

North Carolina State University was established with funding from the Morrill Act. Learn about the history of how Land Grant Universities.