Throughout her career Janneke has focused on the maintenance of species diversity and the impact of global environmental change on plant communities. She has worked on a variety of plant communities including temperate tree species, grassland communities, legume species, sagebrush steppe communities, conifer trees, wildflowers, subtropical forests and tundra biomes, to mention a few. Her main approaches include observational studies, manipulative experiments, and statistical modelling.
Career After her PhD and during her first postdoc, Janneke worked at another LTER site, the
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, associated with the
University of Minnesota, together with
David Tilman. There she focused on how declining diversity and species identity influences productivity and the impacts of global change on seed production. She then moved on to a postdoc at the
University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Jonathan Levine and focused on the factors that allowed Mediterranean annual grasses to dominate over the diverse California annual grasses and forbs as well as on the contributions of niche and neutral processes to the coexistence of Serpentine annuals. For that research she was awarded $77,264 from the U.S. NSF Ecology Panel Award. She came to
University of Washington at 2006, received tenure in 2010 and became a full professor in 2014. She was elected a Fellow of
Ecological Society of America in 2018.
MeadoWatch program A program that has been founded in collaboration between the Hille Ris Lambers Lab and Brosi Lab created in 2013 actively engages the public to participate in community science and collect data to better understand the impact of climate change on biodiversity. == References ==