Disturbance Ecology
The Moorea Coral Reef LTER Site
Poster Number: 274 Presenter/Primary Author: Sally Holbrook The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site, established in 2004, explores community and ecosystem effects of pulsed perturbations and slowly changing environmental drivers on coral reefs, ecologically a
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
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
Patterns of soil properties and respiration along an elevation gradient in the Luquillo Mountains of Northeastern Puerto Rico
Poster Number: 247 Presenter/Primary Author: Dingfang Chen As an important component in global carbon cycle, soil respiration is one of the primary paths to release carbon fixed by vegetation to the atmosphere.
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
