Colorado mountains
From Long-Term Data to Understanding: Toward a Predictive Ecology
2015 LTER ASM Estes Park, CO - August 30 - September 2, 2015
 

Does continuous ecosystem stress lead to vulnerability? (Monday)

Unexpected changes in soil C in a native grassland subjected to extreme disturbance and precipitation regimes

Poster Number:  70 Presenter/Primary Author:  Kevin Wilcox Climate change impacts will include chronic alterations of average precipitation amounts in most terrestrial ecosystems, which will have significant impacts on production and associated ecosystem s

Chronic nutrient enrichment in grasslands increases vulnerability to drought: multiple studies in a single long-term experiment

Poster Number:  69 Presenter/Primary Author:  Sally Koerner Increased nutrient inputs is one of many global change factors predicted to affect the ecosystem function of plant communities, including thei

Elevated pCO2 Increases Respiration of DOC by Natural Bacterioplankton

Poster Number:  66 Presenter/Primary Author:  Anna James The size of the oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) reservoirs are comparable at ~700 PgC (Hansell and Carlson 2015) such that small changes in DO

Physiological and functional traits of dune building grasses influence topographic structure

Poster Number:  28 Presenter/Primary Author:  Joseph Brown Stability of coastal systems are threatened by oceanic and atmospheric drivers of climate change.  Sea-level rise compounded with increased frequency and intensity of storms emphasizes protect