Landscape change
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.
Variation in carbon cycling impacts of an invasive grass (Microstegium vimineum) across an urban-rural gradient in Southern Appalachian forests
Poster Number: 157 Presenter/Primary Author: Matt Craig Although there is broad recognition that invasive species can alter ecosystem processes, little is known about how other factors influence such impacts.
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
Grass-shrub interactions in a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem: can vegetation structure predict state-transitions?
Poster Number: 154 Presenter/Primary Author: Nate Pierce State transition from perennial grassland to woody plant domination is synonymous with land degradation and desertification in many arid and semiarid ecosystems.
Long term Ecological Research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (AND)
Poster Number: 143 Presenter/Primary Author: Sherri Johnson Over its 31-year history, the Andrews LTER (“AND”) program has expanded into a major center for
