Education

Teaching

• Plant Biology
• Community Ecology
• Experimental Design and Analysis

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Biology BS

Research

Research interests

• Root growth responses to competition
• Effects of species interactions on community structure
• Plant species distributions on coastal dunes

Select publications

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• Rajaniemi, T.K., and Barrett, D.T. (2018).
  Germination responses to abiotic stress shape species distributions on coastal dunes
  Plant Ecology, 219, 1271-1282.
  
• Rajaniemi, T.K., Goldberg, D.E., Turkington, R., and Dyer, A.R. (2012).
  Local filters limit species diversity, but species pools determine composition
  Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 14, 373-380.
  
• Rajaniemi, T.K. (2011).
  Competition for patchy soil resources reduces community evenness
  Oecologia, 165, 169-174.
  

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