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.
Seasonal metabolic rates in restored eelgrass meadows measured with the eddy correlation technique
Poster Number: 97 Presenter/Primary Author: Jennie Rheuban Seagrass meadows provide numerous ecosystem services such as increasing water quality, providing habitats for organisms, and sequestering organic matter.
Ecological modeling – Lessons from ecological informatics and modeling research of Harvard Forest - LTER site
Poster Number: 92 Presenter/Primary Author: Ahmed Hassabelkreem The biggest challenge of conservation is the availability of current data about the state of populations, communities and ecosystems.
Jornada Basin Schoolyard LTER: Inquiry-Based Ecology Education for the K-12 Community
Poster Number: 91 Presenter/Primary Author: Stephanie Bestelm... More than 102,000 people have participated in the Jornada Basin schoolyard LTER’s hands-on ecological science programs since 1999 thanks to an effective collaboration between three entities that ru
Ecological Landscape Modeling: science tool towards ecosystem restoration and sustainability
Poster Number: 88 Presenter/Primary Author: Carl Fitz The Ecological Landscape Modeling framework is one of the modeling tools used in the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER. We briefly describe the modeling framework and two example applications -
Evaluation of Southern Ocean O2/Ar-based Net Community Production (NCP) Measurements
Poster Number: 87 Presenter/Primary Author: Scott Doney Sea-air biological O2 flux assessed from measurements of surface O2 supersaturation in excess of that of Ar is used commonly to constrain net community production (NCP) in the
