SEV Archives

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Posted September 28, 2022

Sevilleta LTER housing and desert landscape.

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Posted September 28, 2022

Sevilleta LTER housing and desert landscape.

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Posted December 20, 2021

The Warming, El Nino, Nitrogen Deposition Experiment at the Sevilleta (SEV) LTER.

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Posted September 28, 2021

A Svastra bee climbing along Asclepias (milkweed). Photo credit: Jade McLaughlin

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Posted September 28, 2021

A Svastra bee climbing along Asclepias (milkweed). Photo credit: Jade McLaughlin

We characterized the sensitivity of biological soil crusts to drought (drought plot in photo) in dry grassland ecosystems (Fernandes et al. 2018). We also documented plant evolutionary responses to drought (Whitney et al. 2019) Lauren Baur

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Posted June 17, 2020

We are directly testing how climate mean and variance interacts by building the first field experiments that cross long-term drought with increased rainfall variability. Jennifer Rudgers