Talk Description: One of the classic state-change stories is that over-grazing and drought turn grasslands into shrubby, degraded landscapes. Land managers strive to avoid such irreversible changes, using strategies based…
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Fire and ice: Carbon cycling feedbacks to climate in a warming Arctic
Talk Description: About 30% of global carbon stocks reside in the vegetation and deep, carbon-rich soils of Arctic tundra and boreal forest biomes. Wildfires—which are becoming more frequent with warmer…
Climate-Resilient Coasts: How long-term research and restoration informs management
Talk Description: Coastal habitats are the first line of defense against sea-level rise and storms. At the same time, they are vulnerable to change, and can be pushed past tipping…
Fruška gora LTER site from the perspective of hoverflies, treeclimbers and satellites
By Dušanka Krašić If it wasn’t for this geological bump (the highest peak 549m), the northern part of Serbia would remain devoid of many ecosystem services, much of its biodiversity,…
Legacy of acid rain: A tale of two species
Talk Description: Air pollution control efforts have succeeded in reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, but decades of acid rain have leached calcium and magnesium from Northeastern forest soils….
Plausible freshwater futures: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
Talk Description: Scenarios can help communities think about alternative futures, but using them to drive decisions requires data. In Wisconsin’s Yahara Watershed, researchers are combining data and modelling from the…
2017 NSF Symposium: Discovering the Nature of Ecosystem Change
When: March 21, 2017 Where: Room 375, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia Even as sea-level rise, drought, and fire increase pressures on some ecological systems, others are…
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