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.
Unique traits of an ultra low-diversity bacterial and fungal high-elevation (> 6000 m) cold desert mineral soil community
Poster Number: 159 Presenter/Primary Author: Ryan Lynch High-elevation, plant and glacier free soils rank among the most physiochemically extreme and oligotrophic terrestrial environments. The mountain topogr
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.
Niwot Ridge LTER Program: Alpine Ecosystems as Early Warning Systems
Poster Number: 149 Presenter/Primary Author: Mark Williams The Niwot Ridge (NWT) LTER site was one of the five original LTER sites established in 1980.
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
Foliar DMSO:DMSP ratio and metal content as potential indicators of stress in Spartina alterniflora
Poster Number: 141 Presenter/Primary Author: Caroline McFarlin Physiological responses can occur long before there are visible signs of stress.
