{"id":77,"date":"2023-08-09T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/ecohydrology-lab\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:41:19","slug":"matt-vadeboncoeur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.usnh.edu\/ecohydrology-lab\/people\/matt-vadeboncoeur\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Research Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n
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Full PDF CV – updated September 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\t

Matt has long been interested in better understanding nutrient acquisition and resource allocation, as well as how these processes interact with plant community dynamics, plant physiology, human management decisions,\u00a0 disturbance history, and climate change to affect the cycling of water, nutrients, carbon, and energy through forest ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Recently funded projects include studying the mechanisms by which prescribed fire influences oak regeneration near its northern range limit in New England<\/a>, as well as an investigation in into possible correlations between sap yield, sap sugar concentration, and taphole wound response in a variety of maple species.<\/p>\n

Matt has worked on projects from the Amazon to the Arctic Circle, but has mostly focused on temperate forests.\u00a0 An ongoing research focus include using stable isotopes in tree rings to characterize the response of forest carbon and water cycles to increased atmospheric carbon, climate change, and other stressors such as acid deposition.\u00a0 Matt is also a key collaborator on\u00a0drought\u00a0experiments at\u00a0UNH’s Thompson Farm<\/a>\u00a0and at the\u00a0Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Matt completed his PhD in\u00a0Earth and Environmental Sciences<\/a>\u00a0at UNH in 2013.\u00a0 He studied\u00a0nutrient limitation of primary production in forest ecosystems<\/a>, and in particular the role of mycorrhizal fungi in acquiring inaccessible nutrients.\u00a0 His research was supervised by\u00a0Erik Hobbie<\/a>, and much of his work was conducted in the\u00a0UNH Stable Isotope Lab, of which he is now the co-director.<\/p>\n

Prior to arriving at UNH for graduate school, Matt worked in the Schmitt (plant evolutionary biology) and Hamburg (forest ecosystem) labs at Brown University.\u00a0 Much of his current and previous research has taken place at\u00a0Hubbard Brook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bartlett<\/a>\u00a0Experimental Forests in New Hampshire.\u00a0 He continues to be involved in the\u00a0MELNHE project<\/a>\u00a0examining the effects of chronic N, P, and Ca additions to forest ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Matt taught Biogeography (GEOG 573) at UNH in spring 2014, and Natural Resources Field Methods (NR415) at UNH in fall 2019.<\/p>\n

e-mail:\u00a0Matt Vadeboncoeur<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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