2012 LTER ASM - LUQ

Riparian Nitrogen Dynamics in Tropical Forest Groundwaters: A Challenge to Our Understanding of Near-Stream Ecosystem Function

rbrereton — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:03:31 +0000

Poster Number:

402

Presenter/Primary Author:

Richard Brereton

Riparian zones are widely understood to control the flux of water, nutrients, and carbon from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems.

Student Poster:

Yes

Forest metacommunity structure along an elevational gradient in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico (LUQ)

jzimmerman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:03:30 +0000

Poster Number:

394

Presenter/Primary Author:

Jess Zimmerman

Co-Authors:

Steven Presley

Co-Authors:

Michael Willig

Metacommunity theory provides a rich framework for identifying structure along environmental gradients and for evaluating the relative contributions of local and regional processes in molding biolo

Iron redox cycling: unexplored mechanisms for soil organic matter decomposition

wsilver — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:38:30 +0000

Poster Number:

341

Presenter/Primary Author:

Whendee Silver

Co-Authors:

Steven Hall

Iron (Fe) oxide minerals have long been known to protect soil organic carbon (C) from microbial decomposition, especially in humid tropical soils abundant in both Fe and C.

Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidazing Archaea along the Elevation Gradient at El Yunque Rain Forest in Puerto Rico

scantrell — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:27:02 +0000

Poster Number:

273

Presenter/Primary Author:

Sharon Cantrell

Co-Authors:

Anamary Carazo-Carrión

Co-Authors:

Diana L. Laureano-Córdova

Co-Authors:

José R. Pérez-Jiménez

Archaea has a key role in ammonia oxidation reactions.

Earthworms effects on soil respiration in a sub-tropical wet forest in Puerto Rico

ggonzalez — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:34:03 +0000

Poster Number:

254

Presenter/Primary Author:

Grizelle Gonzalez

Co-Authors:

Dylan Rhea-Fournier (First Author)

Carbon storage, as well as other ecosystem services of soils, is an emergent property on the landscape scale that can be attributed to mechanisms occurring on scales orders of magnitude smaller.

Patterns of soil properties and respiration along an elevation gradient in the Luquillo Mountains of Northeastern Puerto Rico

dchen — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:37:54 +0000

Poster Number:

247

Presenter/Primary Author:

Dingfang Chen

Co-Authors:

Mei Yu

As an important component in global carbon cycle, soil respiration is one of the primary paths to release carbon fixed by vegetation to the atmosphere.

Student Poster:

Yes

Separate Effects of Flooding and Anoxia on Soil Biogeochemistry and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

gmcnicol — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:32:57 +0000

Poster Number:

229

Presenter/Primary Author:

Gavin McNicol

Co-Authors:

Whendee L. Silver

Soils are large sources of atmospheric greenhouse gases, and their magnitude and composition is strongly controlled by soil redox conditions.

Student Poster:

Yes

Characterizing a tropical dry forest stream: Parallels and deviations from tropical streams of the Luquillo Mountains and implications for the STREON experiment

lkoenig — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:22:04 +0000

Poster Number:

226

Presenter/Primary Author:

Lauren Koenig

Co-Authors:

W.H. McDowell

Decades of research at the Luquillo LTER site in Puerto Rico has shed light on ecosystem dynamics important for understanding the structure and function of subtropical wet forest ecosystems.

Student Poster:

Yes

The Luquillo LTER Program

nbrokaw — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:54:58 +0000

Poster Number:

223

Presenter/Primary Author:

Nicholas Brokaw

The Luquillo LTER Program (LUQ) focuses on understanding long-term change in tropical ecosystems and the consequences of change for ecosystem services.

The little things that run the world revisited: Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change

cprather — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:49:18 +0000

Poster Number:

221

Presenter/Primary Author:

Chelse Prather

Co-Authors:

Angela Laws

Co-Authors:

Shannon Pelini

The sustainability of ecosystem services depends on a firm understanding of both how organisms provide these services to humans and how these organisms will be altered with a changing climate.&nbsp