Dr. Luong's lab focuses on adapting restoration practices for changing climates, integrating management, and socio-economic perspectives to understand rangeland ecology. Lab members engage in hands-on, in-field learning opportunities in greenhouses and with practitioners that inform real-world rangeland restoration and management projects to cultivate a diverse and inclusive learning environment.
- Restoration and Global Change: We study how to adapt restoration for changing climates and invasive species with field and greenhouse studies to target management concerns and special status species.
- GRASS Net: A practitioner community focused on restoring diverse biodiversity and coordinating restoration of California grasslands to increase the scale and success of grassland restoration
- Rangeland multifunctionality: Our lab examines how to promote and optimize multiuse to support diverse ecosystem services on rangelands based in plant conservation.
- Science-Practice Gap: A central mission is to engage with restoration practitioners and rangeland managers with informal conversations, collaborations and formal research methods.
Restoration Science Meets Working Landscapes
Dr. Justin Luong’s program spans current research at UC Berkeley and for the past few years hands-on work with the Rangeland Resource Science community at Cal Poly Humboldt. The main focus is building climate-ready, invasion-resistant restoration for California’s grasslands and shrublands through experiments, land manager driven collaborations, and open, reproducible tools. We work using interdisciplinary methods tying together methods in field plant community ecology, ecophysiology (including greenhouse methods) and integrating social science approaches to provide insight into management decisions, their effects on ecological outcomes and to bridge the science-practice gap. Our lab believes in the importance of supporting underserved communities in engaging in STEM, land management and within community engagement.
Use the buttons below to explore each part of the program research themes, the Humboldt lab, teaching, publications, outreach, datasets, and ways to collaborate.
Rangelands are globally distributed habitats with high potential for supporting nature-based climate solutions. Yet, rangelands will be affected by human disturbances that result in severe habitat degradation and may need intervention to sufficiently recover.
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