“We know that salt marsh plants face stressors like sea level rise, drought, and excess nutrient runoff. What is more difficult to predict is the localized response to these stressors,” writes Kyle Runion of his
Cole Doolittle studies how fires alter plant communities in the Pacific Northwest, and he talks about the impact of fires in this SSALTER blog.
How does shrinking sea-ice affect ecosystems along the Western Antarctic Peninsula?
Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Hugh Ducklow Columbia University
& Palmer Station Antarctica LTER Team (http://pal.lter.edu)
Presnted at the 2017 NSF-LTER symposium, March 21, 2107
Kelp forests as sentinels of ecosystem change? 2014-2015 heatwaves offer a test.
Dan Reed, Libe Washburn, Andrew Rassweiler, Robert Miller, Tom Bell and Shannon Harrer
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
Poster presented at NSF-LTER Symposium, March 21, 2017
Scenarios can help communities think about alternative futures, but using them to drive decisions requires dat
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. These changes have increased the mobility of dissolved organic matter, and possibly altered soil organic matter dynamics, altering the long-term trajectory for forest ecosystems. What does the acid rain story say about when, where, and how recovery is possible?
