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Causes and Consequences of Invasive Species; Past and Future Contributions of the LTER Network

In this country invasive species are viewed with more concern than are genetically modified organisms. While this view may change, the scientific issues associated with invasive species strongly overlap and occasionally are identical to those of genetically modified organisms. Vulnerability of native species to the introduction of novel genetic material, including swamping of gene pools,… Read more »

Inland Climate Change: Social and Ecological Sensitivities and Responses

Current plans call for implementing a 5-year manipulative experiment, focused on increasing and decreasing growing season rainfall amounts, across 15 sites in the central US. The rationale for a central US grassland focus includes: The stature of this biome that makes it amenable to such manipulations The presence of several LTER/NEON sites in the region… Read more »

Workshop to promote synthesis products from the EcoTrends project

This working group was broken into 5 (five) sub-working groups Trends disturbance-April 8-9, 2009-Las Cruces, NM, Ariel Lugo was lead.–Final Report Trends Writing Group-NPP/biodiversity-April 13-14, 2009-Las Cruces, NM, Alan Knapp was lead.–Final Report Trends Socio-Econ-Not held Trends Animals-May 11-12, 2009-San Diego, CA,Bob Waide was lead.–Final Report Trends State Changes-May 1-2, 2009-Las Cruces, NM, Aaron Ellison… Read more »