Patterns of inorganic inputs and movements of nutrients through soils, groundwater and surface waters
Nitrogen, phosphorus and other mineral nutrients are cycled through the ecosystem by way of decay and disturbances such as fire and flood. In excessive quantities nitrogen and other nutrients can have far-reaching and harmful effects on the environment.
Drivers, dynamics and consequences of non-linear change in coastal barrier systems
Poster Number: 69 Presenter/Primary Author: Karen McGlathery The Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) is a heterogeneous landscape comprising mainland watersheds, tidal marshes, mudflats, shallow coastal bays, and barrier islands.
Sea Ice and Plankton Ecology at Palmer Station
Poster Number: 67 Presenter/Primary Author: Hugh Ducklow One of the tenets of polar oceanography is the dependence of phytoplankton blooms on sea ice retreat and subsequent water column stratification.
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBR)
Poster Number: 65 Presenter/Primary Author: Charles Driscoll The overall goal of the HBR-LTER program is to improve understanding of the response of Northern Forest ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
Low biodiversity stable state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment
Poster Number: 52 Presenter/Primary Author: Forest Isbell Human activities are causing many gradual, but chronic, environmental changes worldwide, such as an increase in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition rates, which decreases biodiversity.
Long-term soil water dynamics across a desert basin: Broad-scale climatic drivers and local heterogeneity
Poster Number: 49 Presenter/Primary Author: Michael Duniway In arid and semiarid ecosystems, plant community composition and production is primarily limited by soil water availability. Soil profile development and soil-vegetation feedbacks can influen
