Colorado mountains
 

Patterns and frequency of site disturbances

Disturbances often shape ecosystems by periodically reorganizing or destroying them, allowing for significant changes in plant and animal populations and communities.

Tallgrass prairie recovery following persistent grazing depends on response measured

Poster Number:  168 Presenter/Primary Author:  Ben VanderWeide The dynamics of tallgrass prairie plant communities have historically been driven by the interacting effects of grazing by large ungulate herbivores, frequent fire, and a variable mid-continental c

Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics of wetted soils across a polar desert landscape, McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica

Poster Number:  167 Presenter/Primary Author:  Zachary Langford The McMurdo Dry Valleys is a landscape characterized by open expanses of bare soils, alpine and piedmont glaciers, and ice-covered lakes on the valley floors, all underlain by permafrost.

Soil memory: a tool for understanding vegetation change during the Anthropocene

Poster Number:  155 Presenter/Primary Author:  Curtis Monger Referring to his memory, Abraham Lincoln said that “My mind is like a piece of steel—very hard to scratch anything on it, but almost impossible, after you get it there, to rub it out.” Soils, metap

Elevational and Seasonal Dependence in Climate Change Within a Mid-latitude High Mountain System, Colorado Front Range, USA

Poster Number:  151 Presenter/Primary Author:  Jennifer Morse We contrasted 59-year (1952-2010) climate records of two high-elevation sites in the Colorado Rocky Mountains Front Range, USA; one a subalpine forest (3021 m asl) and the other high alpine tundra

 
 
Background Photo by: Nicole Hansen - Jornada (JRN) LTER