Rebecca McCulley

Rebecca McCulley is a Professor and Chair in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Kentucky, where she focuses on plant-soil interactions and global change biology. Her research spans temperate and subtropical ecosystems, emphasizing climate impacts on legumes, nutrient cycling, and soil microbial communities.

Research Interests include:

• Climate change effects on plant productivity and symbiotic relationships
• Industrial hemp's role in sustainable crop rotations
• Soil carbon dynamics and microbial ecology
• Grassland biodiversity under nutrient enrichment
• Thermal sensitivity of plant-fungal endophyte systems

Recent Publications highlight trends in:

• Nutrient co-limitation in grassland productivity
• Genomic and root architectural traits in hemp cultivars
• Climate-driven disruptions to symbiotic nitrogen fixation
• Herbivory-mitigated biodiversity loss

Contact: rebecca.mcculley@uky.edu