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The amazing team that worked on this project. (Left to right: Logan Kozal, Kelly Speare, Marie Strader, Terence Leach and Jannine Chamorro)
Corals demonstrated drastic differences in bleaching severity.
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Researchers, Kelly Speare and Marie Strader, collecting coral colonies.
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Climate models of changes in ecosystem carbon and nitrogen with increases in temperature. Black, dotted line represents a model where vole effects are “Aggregated” with other biogeochemical processes. Red dashed line represents a model with constant vole density (100 voles per hectare). Blue solid line represents a model with a simulated “Vole cycle,” in which vole abundance fluctuates with peaks every 3-4 years based on demographic patterns observed in wild populations. When voles aren’t explicitly accounted for (aggregated, dotted black line), the model underestimates shifts in carbon and nitrogen stocks.
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Lookout Creek is monitored as part of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER site in the Cascades Mountains of Western Oregon, USA.
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Quebrada Sonadora stream is monitored as part of the Luquillo LTER in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Data from this site, and countless others across the world, were used in the synthesis.
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The irrigation transect experiment used a sprinkler system to water the prairie for twenty-five years. Researchers manipulated the experiment to search for legacy effects on the grassland.
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Rainfall exclusion shelters keep natural precipitation off of small prairie plots. Researchers use these to simulate drought.
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The irrigation transect experiment at the Konza Prairie LTER runs aliong the entire reserve, from the lowlands to the highlands.
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