Colorado mountains
 

Community Ecology

Assessing Ecosystem Sensitivity to Chronic Resource Alterations: A Synthesis of Long-term Experiments

Poster Number:  334 Presenter/Primary Author:  Melinda Smith The scale, scope and pace of change occurring in ecological systems today and forecast for the future are by all accounts unprecedented in human history.

Response of rangeland grasshopper communities to cattle and prairie dog grazing

Poster Number:  333 Presenter/Primary Author:  Sean Hauser Novel rangeland management strategies seek to benefit ecosystem services and biodiversity in semiarid grasslands by manipulating the distributions and densities of herbivorous ecosystem engineers,

The roles of crabs in forming tidal creeks in sinking salt marshes

Poster Number:  311 Presenter/Primary Author:  Huy Vu Salt marshes provide many ecosystem services, but are threatened by sea-level rise (SLR).

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