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

Other (Tuesday)

Disease suppressiveness of soil microbial communities affected by crop diversity

Poster Number:  92 Presenter/Primary Author:  Ariane Peralta Agricultural management can have lasting impacts on microbial community structure and function.

Differences in active, slow, and resistant soil carbon fractions under annual and perennial biofuel crops

Poster Number:  91 Presenter/Primary Author:  Christine Sprunger    Differences in soil carbon accumulation rates can markedly affect the sustainability of ecosystems managed for food and fuel production.

Farmer Participation in Auctions to Enhance Ecosystem Services in the Lake Erie Basin

Poster Number:  87 Presenter/Primary Author:  Leah Harris Palm-... In theory, conservation procurement auctions can cost-effectively allocate payments-for-ecosystem-services (PES) contracts by allocating funding to projects that provide the most benefit per dollar

Interactions between snowshoe hare herbivory and white spruce establishment on the Tanana River floodplain, Alaska

Poster Number:  84 Presenter/Primary Author:  Justin Olnes Snowshoe hares are a dominant herbivore of the boreal forest, and are known to affect vegetation dynamics during peak phases of their population cycle.

Plankton community diversity in the southern California Current across trophic gradients determined using a combination of microscopy and metagenomics

Poster Number:  81 Presenter/Primary Author:  Alexandra Freibott Traditional microscopy has long been used to identify plankton communities and estimate their biomass.