Pattern and control of organic matter accumulation in surface layers and sediments
The entire ecosystem relies on the recycling of organic matter (and the nutrients it contains), including dead plants, animals, and other organisms. Decomposition of organic matter and its movement through the ecosystem is an important component of the food web.
Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
Poster Number: 270 Presenter/Primary Author: Anne Giblin The Plum Island Ecosystems LTER (PIE) in an integrated research, education and outreach program whose goal is to develop a predictive understanding of the long term response of watershed and estuar
Land Ocean Interaction in the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Poster Number: 263 Presenter/Primary Author: Dan Reed The Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (SBC) is an interdisciplinary research and education program established in April, 2000 to investigate the role of land and ocean processes in structuring ecosystems
The DIRT on Q10: Differential temperature response of soils depleted of labile inputs
Poster Number: 262 Presenter/Primary Author: Lorien Reynolds The decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) is expected to increase with global warming. SOC decomposition has been commonly described by kinetic models with at least two pools with slow a
Soil biogeochemical processes in hydropedologic units in a northern hardwood forest
Poster Number: 258 Presenter/Primary Author: Peter Groffman As part of a hydropedologic study of a forested catchment in Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (New Hampshire, USA), we investigated the connections between hydropedologic units and soil biogeochem
Photo-oxidation of soot black carbon in central Arizona
Poster Number: 257 Presenter/Primary Author: George Hamilton Soot black carbon (BC) is the product of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass.
