2012 LTER ASM - SGS

Response of rangeland grasshopper communities to cattle and prairie dog grazing

shauser — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:11:05 +0000

Poster Number:

333

Presenter/Primary Author:

Sean Hauser

Co-Authors:

Paul Stapp

Novel rangeland management strategies seek to benefit ecosystem services and biodiversity in semiarid grasslands by manipulating the distributions and densities of herbivorous ecosystem engineers,

Student Poster:

Yes

Nutrient Network Observational Studies: How to Get a Big Bang for Your Research Buck

cbrown3 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:47:01 +0000

Poster Number:

332

Presenter/Primary Author:

Cynthia Brown

Co-Authors:

Elizabeth Borer

Co-Authors:

Eric Lind

Co-Authors:

Eric Seabloom

Grasslands worldwide are experiencing altered nutrient cycles and changes in the identity and abundance of vertebrate consumers.

Legacy effects of an ecosystem stress experiment on a shortgrass-steppe consumer community

pstapp — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:54:42 +0000

Poster Number:

256

Presenter/Primary Author:

Paul Stapp

Co-Authors:

Mark D. Lindquist

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

ssprague — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:53:18 +0000

Poster Number:

255

Presenter/Primary Author:

John Moore

Co-Authors:

MF Antolin, JD Derner, NE Kaplan, EF Kelly, AL Angert, DJ Augustine, DM Blumenthal, CS Brown, IC Burke, RT Conant, JA Klein, AK Knapp, WK Lauenroth, DG Milchunas, JA Morgan, WJ Parton, KH Paustian, P Stapp, JC von Fischer, MD Wallenstein, CT Webb

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.

Grassland sensitivity to climate change at local to regional scales: assessing the role of ecosystem attributes vs. environmental context

aknapp — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:43:18 +0000

Poster Number:

204

Presenter/Primary Author:

Alan Knapp

Co-Authors:

Melinda D. Smith, Scott L. Collins, Yiqi Luo, William Pockman, Kristin Vanderbilt, Elsie Denton, Jesse Gray, Whitney Mowl

Although we have learned much in the past 20 years about how individual ecosystems are likely to respond to climate change, extending this knowledge to regional and continental scales has been a fa

Effects of environmental spatial variation in structuring ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in arid grassland

paulbrewer — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:19:31 +0000

Poster Number:

144

Presenter/Primary Author:

Paul Brewer

Co-Authors:

David Augustine

Co-Authors:

Joseph von Fischer

The enormous biodiversity of soil microbial communities is likely caused, in part, by a similar diversity of soil microhabitats. Understanding how the environmental properties that create div

Student Poster:

Yes

Soil Water and Temperature Explain Canopy Phenology and Greenness on the Shortgrass Steppe

lmoore1 — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:49:31 +0000

Poster Number:

105

Presenter/Primary Author:

Lynn Moore

Co-Authors:

William K. Lauenroth

Co-Authors:

David M. Bell

Primary production in the shortgrass steppe is positively related to precipitation, but the influence of temperature is dependent on precipitation and the combined effects determine water availabil

Student Poster:

Yes

Providing a Pedological Basis for Ecological Experiments

ssalley — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:56:10 +0000

Poster Number:

100

Presenter/Primary Author:

Shawn Salley

Co-Authors:

Eugene Kelly

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,

Student Poster:

Yes