April 10, 2024

I have a new publication that is part of the theme issue ‘Ecological novelty and planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere'.  It is available on my publications page.

Summary:

Forest diversity is intricately linked to various species-specific processes such as regeneration, growth, competition, and mortality of trees, necessitating a comprehensive understanding for accurate prediction. Despite this, regeneration processes have often been overlooked due to their stochastic nature and the assumption that recruitment is not limiting for forests. To address this gap, our study focused on the importance of seed production and seedling survival in shaping forest diversity in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), utilizing the ForClim forest gap model. By incorporating equations for regeneration processes based on empirical data and varying parameter values in simulations, we found that adding regeneration processes into ForClim significantly improved the simulation of species composition compared to Forest Inventory Analysis data. Notably, seedling survival emerged as a more critical factor than seed production, and the duration for seedlings to grow into saplings was a key recruitment parameter for accurately capturing tree species diversity in PNW forests. However, our simulations were based solely on historical climate data, highlighting the need for future climate change simulations to include these regeneration processes to predict future forest dynamics in the PNW accurately.

September 1, 2022

I presented a NSF funded project at my first in person conference in Montreal Canada. Seed production, forests, and models. The key take away message is that seed production can influence the species composition of future forest in the Pacific Northwest. Check it out in the presentations tab!

July 5, 2022

I have a new publication on a long-term sunflower project I was a part of in Texas. Check out my publication! This one makes three! 

January 1, 2022

Domain name update.

HNLuu.com is not owned by me anymore.

HNLuu.com is now HoangLuu.com!

HoangLuu.com was my first choice last year and I'm happy that it became available when I went to update my website. Going to make a note to myself to renew domain names in the future.

HNLuu.com was made using Wix. I wanted to try another website host/builder and decided to use Google Sites for HoangLuu.com. A huge plus for me to use Google Sites is that there is no cost in using a custom domain. There is also easier monetization potential since most ad revenue is from Google. Maybe future me could make some money with this site.