Rate My Professor Travis Huxman

Huxman is a physiological ecologist whose research focuses on plant physiological ecology, the evolution of functional traits in plants, impacts of climate change on ecosystems, desert biology, global change biology, ecohydrology, and ecosystem ecology. He examines plant-mediated processes from cellular to landscape scales, with emphasis on climate-ecosystem interactions and carbon-water cycle coupling in arid landscapes. His highly cited publications include "Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency" (Nature, 2004), "Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems" (Oecologia, 2004), "Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought" (PNAS, 2009), and "A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality" (Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017). Huxman has been elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2017) for contributions to plant ecophysiology, functional traits, climate change effects, restoration, and conservation, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020) for work in physiological plant ecology under global change. Other honors include the Distinguished Alumnus Award from California State University, San Bernardino (2004) and the UNLV Foundation Dissertation Research Excellence Award (2000).