Altered moisture regimes
Microbes, moisture, and metabolic activity: Is there a soil moisture threshold for microbial activity?
Poster Number: 121 Presenter/Primary Author: Sarah Placella Growing evidence suggests that climate-driven changes in precipitation regulate microbially mediated ecosystem processes, such as CO2 flux from soils to the atmosphere.
Providing a Pedological Basis for Ecological Experiments
Poster Number: 100 Presenter/Primary Author: Shawn Salley The contemporary landscapes of the short-grass steppe ecosystem possess a remarkably diverse soil mantle. While spatial heterogeneity does indeed exist among soils in the short-grass steppe,
Local adaptation and genome size do not impact Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) responses to variable precipitation timing
Poster Number: 51 Presenter/Primary Author: Kimberly O'Keefe Responses of the genetically and phenotypically diverse C4 grass species, Panicum virgatum L.
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
Effects of interannual precipitation variability on aboveground net primary production in the Chihuahuan desert
Poster Number: 6 Presenter/Primary Author: Laureano Gherardi Climate change will result not only in changes in the mean climate state but also in the variability of climate.
