Luquillo LTER Site Brief 2019

Luquillo LTER site brief, prepared for NSF decadal review 2019. Typo corrected (site established date) in 2025.

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Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys.

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Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys

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The wormherders team out in the field!

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Dr. Diana Wall running an experiment on the impact of water addition to the soil fauna (photo credit: Dr. Byron Adams). This is the same experiment that we are sampling in the following image!

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Dr. Sarah Power taking field notes in front of a snow patch. You can see dark biocrust growing along the edge of the snowpack.