Colorado mountains
 

Animal Ecology

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 little things that run the world revisited: Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change

Poster Number:  221 Presenter/Primary Author:  Chelse Prather The sustainability of ecosystem services depends on a firm understanding of both how organisms provide these services to humans and how these organisms will be altered with a changing climate.&nbsp

Population, Community, and Metacommunity Dynamics of Terrestrial Gastropods in the Luquillo Mountains: A Gradient Perspective

Poster Number:  210 Presenter/Primary Author:  Michael Willig Elevational variation in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico creates strong environmental gradients that affect the abundance and distribution of species.  Moreover, the geographic mappings

Spatial Configuration of Multiple Aspects of Biodiversity Along a Tropical Elevational Gradient

Poster Number:  209 Presenter/Primary Author:  Michael Willig Although taxonomic biodiversity is a multidimensional concept, most research at intermediate to broad spatial scales has solely considered gradients of species richness.  In contrast, we quant

 
 
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