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Wildfire Ponzi Scheme? The Continental Carbon Exchange

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Wildfire in Alaskan black spruce forests.Credit: Photo by Laona DeWilde If carbon is currency, wildfires are the brokers; that is, they distribute carbon between land and air. In the short-run,…

Assistant Professor Positions (Water) Oregon State University

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The College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) at Oregon State University (OSU) in Corvallis, Oregon invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions focused on water, one with…

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Who We Are We are over 2000 researchers at 28 sites who apply long-term observation, experiments, and modeling to understand how ecological systems function over decades. Read All… Research…

Interdisciplinary Data Manager-Pacific Northwest Research Station

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The USDA Forest Service, Forest and Ecosystem Process Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station (http://www.fs.fed.us/us/pnw), is looking to fill a GS9 or GS11 Interdisciplinary Data Manager in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. This…

Where Does Charcoal, or Black Carbon, in Soils Go?

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Where Does Charcoal, or Black Carbon, in Soils Go? Scientists find surprising new answers in wetlands such as the Everglades April 18, 2013 — Scientists have uncovered…

LTER Acronym List

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List of Acronyms used in approximate order of appearance: LTER – Long Term Ecological Research LNO – LTER Network Office NSF – National Science Foundation EB – LTER Network Executive…

Are We Making Selfish Microbes?

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Some bacteria become less cooperative with their plant hosts under long-term nutrient additions, finds new research by Jen Lau, an ecologist at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER, and her…

Tropical Carbon Cycling

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Tropical forests (Fig. 1) absorb more atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) than any other terrestrial biome globally. They also account for about 30% of global net primary production (i.e., carbon uptake)…