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Roadblocks and Rocks: How to Measure Soils in Forest Ecosystems
Karla Jarecke and Adrian Gallo take us through research at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, home of the Andrews Forest LTER.
LTER Network News | 2019 August
LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. This is our water cooler. Please share personnel changes, new grants, cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues.
Ironing out the arctic carbon cycle
Adrianne Trusiak takes us through sampling to decipher the carbon cycle at Toolik Lake, home of the Arctic LTER.
Understanding Farmer Attitudes Can Help Address Water Quality Issues
The Gulf of Mexico dead zone is predicted to be a near record size in 2019. By the end of summer, the hypoxic region at the mouth of the Mississippi River is expected to occupy over 22,000 square kilometers—an area the size of Massachusetts. The culprit? Nitrogen-based fertilizers applied to crops across the Midwest that… Read more »
Seasonal change in Alaska may hold silver lining for restoration efforts
Inspired by several citizen science projects, a team from Bonanza Creek LTER studied how changes to season lengths in Interior Alaska affected native and non-native species.
Connecting Communities: LTER at ESA 2019
LTER presents two plenary talks, plus results from synthesis working groups.
Individual talks and posters are listed and cover topics as diverse as the ecology of segregation, connectivity in barrier island communities, and modeling complex landscapes using machine learning.
Can corals ride the tide of climate change?
Researchers at Mo’orea LTER did not observe evidence that corals acclimatize to ocean acidification, but they did observe that some are more sensitive to it than others.
LTER Related Oral Sessions at American Geophysical Union Meeting (2019)
The organized oral sessions below are being convened at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting 9-13 December by LTER investigators and students. Abstract submissions are open until midnight EDT 31 July, 2019. Want to add a session to the list? Contact Marty Downs, downs@nceas.ucsb.edu. Workshop: Metrics that Make a Difference: How to analyze change and... Read more »
Illustrating three unexpected lessons we learned whilst studying diurnal patterns of light transmittance of leaves
Santa Neimane takes us through research in the Alps, part of a series of SSALTER blog posts from international long-term researchers!
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