The caddisfly stole my heart
Caroline McCoy’s two-years as an ARETS Fellow impacted and expanded her approach to teaching science profoundly.
Studying post-fire Snowpack at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
As wildfires continue to reshape forested landscapes across the western United States, understanding their impact on snowpack and hydrologic systems is increasingly important.
Threshold 32F exhibit offers multiple perceptions of change
In a new traveling exhibit, Threshold 32F, from the In a Time of Change project, visitors are treated to a mix of poems, paintings, and research notes that takes them deep into a multidisciplinary experience of change. Adam Popescu wrote about the exhibit for the New York Times. A new video trailer, supported in part… Read more »
When Shade Isn’t Enough: Climate Change in the Forest Understory
Once thought to be natural refuges, old-growth forests are warming faster than we imagined.
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems
The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for one week, starting in the fall.
Burned forest, bleached reef: LTER sites adapt to learn from disturbance
How the Andrews Forest and Moorea Coral Reef LTER sites respond to disturbance highlights the struggle and opportunity that come with an irreparably altered ecosystem.
The Lessons Wildfire Can Teach: Destruction and Resiliency after Disaster
Cole Doolittle studies how fires alter plant communities in the Pacific Northwest, and he talks about the impact of fires in this SSALTER blog.
Trees know their neighbors – and respond differently when they die
A new study leveraging a 40-year data set from old-growth forests demonstrates that trees can experience growth suppression or release depending on the identity and size of their downed neighbor.
Across fourteen LTERs, soil carbon is a “gatekeeper” on the nitrogen cycle
An LTER cross site synthesis effort reveals that soil carbon availability determines nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates across a wide diversity of terrestrial ecosystems.
Andrews LTER: Forest understory biodiversity and climate change
Pacific Northwest forests contain some of the largest reserves of forests on the planet, but many questions remain unanswered about how drought and heat stress from climate change will change forest dynamics and biodiversity. RETs on this project will track understory plant populations and quantify interactions among the many important and diverse plant species in these understory ecosystems.
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The caddisfly stole my heart
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Summer Network-wide Postcard Exchange
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ILTER Webinar: Resolving and scaling litter decomposition controls from leaf to landscape
Lessons from Long-Term Data: An ARETs Experience at the H.J. Andrews LTER
Invisible Impacts Symposium
Clotheslines, Hair Ties, and Tape Measures: Low Tech Tools for the Win
Voices of the Forest: Frog Bio-acoustics in the LUQ-LTER
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