​Our research group seeks to answer the question:
In a changing climate, how do we design agricultural landscapes that work for both the environment and people?
​To answer to this question, we examine fundamental ecological concepts in agricultural systems framed by the principle that agriculture is not isolated from its socio-political contexts. For example, we examine how agricultural management impacts biotic interactions (e.g., between plants, insects, and microbes) across scales (e.g., shifts in community structure, cascading changes in ecosystem functioning). Our current research interests include (1) mutualisms and the maintenance of diversity across agricultural landscapes; (2) biotic interactions for agricultural multifunctionality and resilience; and (3) socio-ecological solutions for building agricultural resilience. These interests are situated at the intersection of several fields: community ecology, soil microbial ecology, pollination biology, and plant ecophysiology.
The Agroecology Research Group is led by Aidee Guzman, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University.
