Rate My Professor Martin Brummell

Brummell's research interests encompass dispersal and metapopulation dynamics of microorganisms among flowers and insects; effects of pesticides and pollutants on pollinators, flowers, and their microbiomes; ecological restoration of peatlands and forests; and greenhouse gas exchange in pristine and disturbed terrestrial ecosystems. He teaches courses in ecology, evolutionary biology, microbiology, genetics, invertebrate zoology, and environmental science. Key publications include Samnegård et al. (2023), 'Within-bloom shift in abundance of a wild pollinator mediates pollen deposition rates to blueberry,' Basic and Applied Ecology; Bravo et al. (2020), 'Effects of invasion by Birch on a Spruce plantation at a cutover peatland,' Mires and Peat; Preston et al. (2020), 'Tree restoration and ecosystem carbon storage in an acid and metal impacted landscape,' Forest Ecology and Management; Lazcano et al. (2020), 'Interactive effects of vegetation and water table depth on belowground C and N mobilization and greenhouse gas emissions in a restored peatland,' Plant and Soil; Brummell et al. (2014), 'Greenhouse gas production and consumption in High Arctic deserts,' Soil Biology and Biochemistry; and Brummell et al. (2012), 'Greenhouse gas soil production and surface fluxes at a High Arctic polar oasis,' Soil Biology and Biochemistry. Brummell received the University of New England Post-Doctoral Fellowship.