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Carbon balance of converting conservation reserve program (CRP) grasslands to agriculture.

Poster Number:  269 Presenter/Primary Author:  Ilya Gelfand To analyze the net carbon balance of land-use conversion from grasslands to cropping agriculture, we conducted a full carbon accounting of biodiesel and grain production from three CRP grassland ec

Biotic mechanisms contributing to the stability of productivity differ along a gradient of rainfall variability

Poster Number:  268 Presenter/Primary Author:  Lauren Hallett Productivity increases with precipitation across spatial gradients but does not as closely track precipitation over time, nor does high variability in precipitation lead to highly unstable producti

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.

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