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.
Spatial and inter-annual variability of net community productivity in the western Antarctica Peninsula region
Poster Number: 399 Presenter/Primary Author: Kuan Huang
Increased Connectivity in a Polar Desert Resulting from Climate Warming: McMurdo Dry Valley LTER Program
Poster Number: 392 Presenter/Primary Author: Diane McKnight The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) is a polar desert on the coast of East Antarctica, a region that has not yet experienced the climate warming that is now occurring elsewhere.
Detecting the sensitivity of desert herbaceous plant responses to co-occurring atmospheric compounds
Poster Number: 379 Presenter/Primary Author: Elizabeth Cook Cities occupy a small land area globally, yet atmospheric compounds generated from human-dominated ecosystems have significant impacts on protected lands within and beyond urban boundaries. D
Zooplankton aggregation at glider-detected ocean fronts in the California Current Ecosystem
Poster Number: 376 Presenter/Primary Author: Jesse Powell Here we report the results from six years of front observations from 2006 through 2011 along two transect lines within the Southern California Current System (SCCS) using autonomous gliders.
The California Current Ecosystem (CCE) LTER site: Mechanisms underlying ecosystem transitions
Poster Number: 375 Presenter/Primary Author: Mark Ohman The CCE-LTER site is a coastal upwelling biome forced by physical processes on a variety of time and space scales.
