Brian Palik is the Team Leader / Research Ecologist for the Center for Research on Ecosystem Change at the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Palik's research foci include questions related to plant biodiversity and community composition, tree regeneration dynamics, and aboveground productivity. He is interested in tradeoffs between productivity (biomass, volume) and sustainability of other ecological characteristics (e.g., native species diversity and habitat) with a goal of developing and evaluating silvicultural and management approaches that sustain ecological complexity in forests managed for wood production. He holds a PhD in Forest Ecology and an MS in Plant Ecology from Michigan State University and a BS in Biology from Alma College.

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