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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)

How deep does disturbance go? The long-term effects of canopy disturbance on tropical forest soil biogeochemistry

Poster Number:  168 Presenter/Primary Author:  Omar Gutierrez De... We used the Canopy Trimming Experiment (CTE), an ongoing ecosystem manipulation study in the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF), Puerto Rico to determine the decadal-scale effects of canopy disturb

Asexual budding and aggregated spatial distribution of fungiid corals from disturbed reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia

Poster Number:  153 Presenter/Primary Author:  Hannah Nelson In Moorea, French Polynesia, fungiid corals are important members of coral communities where their solitary and free-living life histories, combined with sexual and asexual reproduction, makes them

Insights into the influence of groundwater and drought in a north temperate forest

Poster Number:  146 Presenter/Primary Author:  Dominick Ciruzzi Vegetation may avoid the effects of drought when roots are able to access available shallow groundwater.

High rates of dormancy mask the effect of fertilization on microbial activity in salt marshes

Poster Number:  129 Presenter/Primary Author:  Patrick Kearns Salt marshes are highly productive ecosystems that provide numerous ecosystem services. Despite their importance, salt marshes have experienced substantial declines in recent

High rates of dormancy mask the effect of fertilization on microbial activity in salt marshes

Poster Number:  128 Presenter/Primary Author:  Patrick Kearns Salt marshes are highly productive ecosystems that provide numerous ecosystem services. Despite their importance, salt marshes have experienced substantial declines in recent