Disturbance Patterns
Legacy effects of an ecosystem stress experiment on a shortgrass-steppe consumer community
Poster Number: 256 Presenter/Primary Author: Paul Stapp In a classic experiment of the US IBP Grassland Biome Studies, nitrogen and water were added singly and in combination over a 5-year period (1971-1975) to replicated 1-ha plots of shortgrass steppe
Long-Term Ecological Research on Colorado Shortgrass Steppe
Poster Number: 255 Presenter/Primary Author: John Moore The Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological research (SGS-LTER) project is entering its final year of a more than 30-year history (1982-2014) of research and engagement within the LTER network.
The Watershed Approach in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Poster Number: 250 Presenter/Primary Author: Peter Groffman In the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES), we are conducting long-term watershed studies to provide a basis for comparison of urban ecosystems with other ecosystem types within the LTER netowrk and to
Interaction of hydrodynamics and corallivory control growth of branching Acropora
Poster Number: 239 Presenter/Primary Author: Hunter Lenihan Coral community shifts are a common, recent phenomenon across reefs in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific, and have been related in time and space to catastrophic natural disturbances, especially storm
Ecological impacts of a major oil sands pipeline spill into the Kalamazoo River (Michigan)
Poster Number: 235 Presenter/Primary Author: Micaleila Desotelle One of the largest oil sands (tar sands) spills from a pipeline occurred on the Kalamazoo River of southwest Michigan two years ago in July 2010.
