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Author C. Priscu The McMurdo Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land comprise the largest ice‐free expanse (about 4000 km2) on the Antarctic continent. Research in this region began during British expeditions of the early 1900s and has yielded much information on specific physical, chemical and biological features of the area. Only recently have scientists begun… Read more »

Author Charles L. RedmanDavid R. Foster Agrarian Landscapes in Transition researches human interaction with the earth. With hundreds of acres of agricultural land going out of production every day, the introduction, spread, and abandonment of agriculture represents the most pervasive alteration of the Earth’s environment for several thousand years. What happens when humans impose their… Read more »

Author William LauenrothI. C. Burke Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective summarizes and synthesizes more than sixty years of research that has been conducted throughout the shortgrass region in North America. The shortgrass steppe was an important focus of the International Biological Program’s Grassland Biome project, which ran from the late 1960s until… Read more »

Author G. Philip RobertsonDavid C. ColemanCaroline S. BledsoePhillip Sollins Standardized methods and measurements are crucial for ecological research, particularly in long-term ecological studies where the projects are by nature collaborative and where it can be difficult to distinguish signs of environmental change from the effects of differing methodologies. This second volume in the Long-Term Ecological… Read more »

Author Nicholas BrokawTodd CrowlAriel LugoWilliam McDowellFrederick ScatenaRobert WaideMichael Willig Global change threatens ecosystems worldwide, and tropical systems with their high diversity and rapid development are of special concern. We can mitigate the impacts of change if we understand how tropical ecosystems respond to disturbance. For tropical forests and streams in Puerto Rico this book describes… Read more »

Author Alexander HurynJohn Hobbie This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the identification and natural history of the common animals and plants… Read more »

Author Wayne T. Swank (Author)Jackson R. Webster (Author) Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances. A watershed-scale and long-term perspective of forest ecosystem responses is requisite to understanding and predicting cause and effect relationships…. Read more »

Alaska’s Changing Arctic: Ecological Consequences for Tundra, Streams, and Lakes Editors John E. Hobbie (Editor)George W. Kling (Editor) In this edition of the Long Term Ecological Research Network series, editors John Hobbie and George Kling and 58 co-authors synthesize the findings from the NSF-funded Arctic LTER project based at Toolik Lake, Alaska, a site that… Read more »

The Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes: Long-term Research on the Path to Sustainability Editors: S.K. HamiltonJ.E.DollG.P. Robertson Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation. This… Read more »