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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.
Trophic interactions and variation in reproductive performance within a community of Antarctic penguins (genus Pygoscelis)
Poster Number: 147 Presenter/Primary Author: Kristen Gorman The southwestern Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, including the Bellingshausen Sea west of the Antarctica Peninsula (AP), is now strongly influenced by ocean-climate warming.
Identification and characterization of microbial communities in high elevation snow packs
Poster Number: 142 Presenter/Primary Author: Courtney Naff Microbial communities play a key role in food web dynamics of marine, freshwater and soil ecosystems.
Palmer LTER: Long-Term Ecological Research on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem: Looking Back in Time Through Marine Ecosystem Space.
Poster Number: 129 Presenter/Primary Author: Hugh Ducklow The Palmer Station region on the western shore of the Antarctic Peninsula, site of Palmer LTER, is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth, especially in winter.
Barcoding corals in the genus Pocillopora: geographically restricted cryptic diversity
Poster Number: 45 Presenter/Primary Author: Zac Forsman
