Pattern and control of primary production
Plant growth in most ecosystems forms the base or “primary” component of the food web. The amount and type of plant growth in an ecosystem helps to determine the amount and kind of animals (or “secondary” productivity) that can survive there.
Jornada Basin LTER: Landscape linkages and state changes across spatial and temporal scales
Poster Number: 47 Presenter/Primary Author: Debra Peters Chihuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability, and management challenges in arid and semi-arid regions around the world.
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers at Harvard Forest LTER
Poster Number: 44 Presenter/Primary Author: Katherine Bennett As part of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts seeks to train the next generation of researchers, by involving K-12 grade students and t
Identifying thresholds in pattern-process relationships: a new cross-scale interactions experiment at the Jornada Basin LTER
Poster Number: 43 Presenter/Primary Author: Finn Pillsbury Interactions among ecological patterns and processes at multiple scales play a significant role in threshold behaviors in arid systems.
The EcoTrends Project: long-term data provide ecological insights to scientists and non-scientists
Poster Number: 42 Presenter/Primary Author: Stacey Peters Environmental drivers are changing at local to global scales with corresponding effects on ecological dynamics. Large amounts of data have been collected to document these changes.
Spatially explicit feedbacks between seagrass meadows, sediment, and light: habitat suitability for seagrass growth
Poster Number: 41 Presenter/Primary Author: Joel Carr In shallow costal bays in which nutrient loading and riverine inputs are low, turbidity, and the consequent light environment are controlled by resuspension of bed sediments due to wind-waves and t
