Rebecca McCulley

Dr. McCulley has been a faculty member at the University of Kentucky since 2006. She is trained as a grassland ecosystem ecologist. She has degrees from Rice University, Texas A&M, and Colorado State, and completed a postdoc at Duke University. She served as the Director of the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment at UK from 2013-2017 and became Chair of her Department in 2018. Her research program seeks to identify the main ecological factors controlling grassland structure and function. Specifically, her lab explores the effects of fungal endophyte symbioses on grassland ecosystem processes and evaluates how grasslands will respond to global change factors, such as alterations to climate, land use, ultraviolet radiation, and invasive species abundance.

Email: rebecca.mcculley@uky.edu

Research Areas: climate change effects on ecosystems, agroecology, grassland ecology

Collaborative Interests: department seminars, graduate committees, grant collaborations, guest lectures, public lectures, publications, research collaborations, student advising

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