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Dr Lorna Street

Dr Lorna Street

My research

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  1. Dr Lorna Street

Lecturer in Ecological and Environmental Sciences

My research

 

I’m an ecosystem scientist interested in how vegetation influences carbon and nutrient cycling. I work mostly in Arctic and upland ecosystems. In the far north, climate warming is shifting the treeline northwards, and tundra vegetation is becoming greener with the expansion of woody shrubs. Similar shifts towards woody vegetation are also happening in Scotland, driven by the need to plant trees for carbon sequestration.

My work aims to understand how vegetation change influences ecosystem carbon storage, with a particular focus on soils. Will a warmer, greener Arctic store more or less carbon? Will tree planting in the Scottish uplands offset our greenhouse gas emissions?  I work on the fundamental science behind these questions.

For a full list of my publications, see the Edinburgh Research Explorer here

Contact details

School of GeoSciences
Edinburgh
+44 (0)131 651 7702

lorna.street@ed.ac.uk

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