Colorado mountains
 

Spatial and temporal distribution of populations selected to represent trophic structure

A population is a group of organisms of the same species. Like canaries in the coalmine, changes in populations of organisms can be important indicators of environmental changes.

Network ecology and the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Integrating research and monitoring to address conservation and climate change.

Poster Number:  237 Presenter/Primary Author:  William Gould We are entering a new era of network ecology - entities monitoring, assessing, and modeling phenomena across disciplines and broad extents. Government agencies including the U.S.

Widespread abrupt shifts of grasslands to a wooded state: woody encroachment in a stable-state and socio-economic framework

Poster Number:  236 Presenter/Primary Author:  Zak Ratajczak Woody encroachment of global grasslands and savannas affects biodiversity and a variety of vital ecosystem services.

Understanding variation in zooplankton communities among alpine kettle ponds within the Niwot Ridge LTER

Poster Number:  231 Presenter/Primary Author:  Courtney Currier Variation in zooplankton assemblages may reflect large-scale shifts in aquatic communities following changes to the biotic and abiotic environment.

The little things that run the world revisited: Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change

Poster Number:  221 Presenter/Primary Author:  Chelse Prather The sustainability of ecosystem services depends on a firm understanding of both how organisms provide these services to humans and how these organisms will be altered with a changing climate.&nbsp

 
 
Background Photo by: Nicole Hansen - Jornada (JRN) LTER