Research Interests
I'm interested in understanding the evolution of plant form and function at all relevant scales. To date my work has focused primarily on; i) linking theoretical models of plant form and function to empirical allometries, and ii) trait variation within and across plant communities. I recently started at postdoc in the laboratory of Dr Joshua Weitz at the Georgia Institute of Technology (ecotheory.biology.gatech.edu). Here we are investigating how leaf vascular network structure is linked to whole leaf form and function.
Publications
Price, C.A., B.J. Enquist and V. M. Savage. (2007) A general model for allometric covariation in botanical form and function Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (32): 13204-13209. pdf
Price, C.A., and B.J. Enquist, Scaling Mass and Morphology in Leaves. (2007) Ecology, 88(5): 1132–1141. pdf
Enquist, B.J., A. J. Kerkhoff, S.C. Stark, N.G. Swenson, M.C. McCarthy, and C.A. Price and . A General Allometric Plant Production Model: Integrating Leaf Traits, Whole-plant Allocation and Metabolic Efficiency. Nature 449:218-222. pdf
Enquist, BJ., A.P. Allen, J.H. Brown, J.F. Gillooly, A. Kerkhoff, K.J. Niklas, C.A. Price, G.B. West. (2006) Reply to Reich et al. – Does the exception prove the rule? Nature 445:E9-E10, 2007. pdf
Price, C.A., and B.J. Enquist. (2006) Scaling mass and morphology in plants with minimal branching: an extension of the WBE model. Functional Ecology 20: 11-20. pdf
Price, C.A. and J.F. Weltzin. (2003) Managing non-native plant populations through intensive community restoration in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Restoration Ecology, 11(3):351-358. pdf
Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J Pither, A.J. Kerkhoff, M. D. Weiser, W.F. Fagen, A. Moles, C.A. Price, J.C. Stegen…The diversity and distribution of plant function across the New World (in review).
Price, C.A., A.J. Kerkhoff and B.J. Enquist , Growth form, tissue density and the allometry of plant water and dry matter content .
Price, C.A., B.J. Enquist and J.S. Weitz. Community Allometry: covariation in plant allometric traits with elevation in a Sonoran Desert plot.
Price, C.A., E.P. White, J.S. Weitz and K. Ogle. Evaluating scaling theories in biology.
Price, C.A., and J.S. Weitz. Is the ratio of height to canopy diameter invariant with size across perennial land plants?
Price, C.A. and B.J. Enquist. Constancy in forest community measures .
Press mentioning my work
Whitfield, J. 2006. The cost of leafing. Nature 444:539-541. pdf
Ahmed, F. 2007. Geometry of vascular systems governs plant forms. PNAS 104:12951-12952. pdf
Ton Damman Award: http://biology.memphis.edu/esa/07tdrec.htm