Patterns and frequency of site disturbances
Disturbances often shape ecosystems by periodically reorganizing or destroying them, allowing for significant changes in plant and animal populations and communities.
Regional Consequences of Changing Climate-Disturbance Interactions for the Resilience of Alaska's Boreal Forest
Poster Number: 337 Presenter/Primary Author: Roger Ruess Rapid environmental change in interior Alaska over the past century has altered the interrelationships among physical, biological and social drivers of the regional system.
The Konza Prairie LTER Program: Grassland Dynamics and Long-Term Trajectories of Change
Poster Number: 308 Presenter/Primary Author: John Blair The Konza Prairie LTER program (KNZ) is a comprehensive ecological research, education and outreach program, centered on one of the most productive grasslands in North America – the tallgrass prair
Putting the “long term” in the LTERs: History in and of the LTER network
Poster Number: 301 Presenter/Primary Author: Anita Guerrini The emphasis on coupled human-natural systems has opened new possibilities for collaboration with the humanities at many sites in the LTER system.
Characteristics of eddies shed from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Poster Number: 299 Presenter/Primary Author: Nicole Couto Winter temperatures in the western Antarctic peninsula (WAP) region are the fastest-warming temperatures on Earth, however understanding the heat sources driving the rise in temperatures remains an
Plant Community Succession on Drying Lakes in the Yukon Flats, Alaska
Poster Number: 287 Presenter/Primary Author: Mark Winterstein Plant succession is often studied by observing how plant communities colonize the landscape and subsequently change over time.
