[LTER-luq-students] LUQ-LTER November 2015 Newsletter

Wed Nov 4 05:09:12 MST 2015

LUQ LTER November 2015

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Reminder: The January meeting will be held on the 12th and 13th, 2016

** Whendee Silver named UC Berkeley's Faculty Climate Action Champion
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Whendee Silver, professor of environmental science, policy, and management at UC Berkeley and LUQ-LTER Co-PI, was named UC Berkeley's first Faculty Climate Action Champion. The award is  "designed to help meet and focus student demand for climate-action education and to inspire other faculty members to help achieve carbon neutrality through engaged research and education." Silver and her group are focusing on how they can use soils to increase the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide absorbed by ecosystems, thus slowing climate change. The award provides Silver with $25,000 to use towards developing and enhancing her research. Congratulations!

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LUQ-LTER Monthly Meetings

Presentations from the October 13th, 2015 meeting focusing on preliminary effects of the 2015 drought can be downloaded here (http://lternet.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=f5b6798f6d&e=cdc2d0dea1) .

Please mark your calendars for the upcoming monthly meetings:
November 17th, 2015: 1 pm EST, 2 pm AST: Update on CTE and planning for the January meeting
December 8th, 2015,
1 pm EST, 2 pm AST
January 12th, 2016, 1 pm EST, 2 pm AST

All meetings are held over the web using the GoTo meeting software.
Special section of BioScience: Tropical Forest Responses to Large-Scale Experiments

"A collation of six synthesis articles covering recent large-scale field experiments that have been highly influential in tropical ecology and that further our understanding of how these forests will respond to global environmental change."

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Managing Watersheds for Ecosystem Services in the Steepland Neotropics
Edited by Hall, Jefferson S.; Kirn, Vanessa; Yanguas-Fernández, Estrella
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This publication represents a synthesis of themes discussed in the conference "Watershed Management for Ecosystem Services in Human Dominated Landscapes of the Neotropics" and includes recent research and practices related to watershed management in the region. It provides a biophysical understanding of ecosystem function for key land uses in the area, summarizes ecosystem services, addresses the implications of climate and land use change, and provides socio-economic foundations of ecosystem services and advances in the region. The report presents a road map for improving watershed management and provides selected case studies to illustrate examples of where advances are being made.

The publication can be downloaded as a pdf, or used interactively on the web. A Spanish language version will be released soon

LUQ members Noelia Báez Rodríguez, Jess Zimmerman, Sarah Stankavich, and Ivia Moreno enjoying some time in Rocky Mountain National Park between working groups at the All Scientists Meeting in                                                          August.

Other Publications
Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2015.
Advantages of living at the extremes: Tree seedlings at intermediate
abundance in a tropical forest have the highest richness of
aboveground enemies and suffer most damage. Journal of Ecology.

Hall, S. H. and W. L. Silver. 2015. Synergisms among reactive
minerals and reducing conditions explain spatial patterns of soil carbon
in humid tropical forest soils. In press, Biogeochemistry.
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Hall, S. J., G. McNicol, T. Natake, and W. L. Silver. 2015. Rapid turnover
of tropical forest soil carbon is largely independent of soil properties.
Biogeosciences doi:10.5194/bg-12-2471-2015.

Hall, S. J., W. L. Silver, V. I. Timokhin, and K. E. Hammel. 2015. Redox
fluctuations increase the contribution of lignin to soil respiration.
In press, Global Change Biology.

Gentine, P, M. Guérin, M. Uriarte, N. McDowell and W. Pockman. 2015. An
allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure
and carbon starvation. Ecohydrology.
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Kelly, S. P., E. Cuevas, & A. Ramírez (2015). Stable isotope analyses of
web-spinning spider assemblages along a headwater stream in
Puerto Rico. PeerJ 3:e1324; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1324
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Kress, J.W, C. Garcia-Robledo, M. Uriarte, and D. Erickson. 2014. DNA
barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation. Trends in Ecology
and Evolution.
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Lasky, J., B. Bachelot, R. Muscarella, N. Schwartz, N. G. Swenson, J. K.
Zimmerman, J. Thompson, C. J. Nytch, J. Forero-Montaña and M.
Uriarte. 2015. Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of
plant community assembly. Ecology 96:2157–2169.
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Letcher, S.G.,  J.R. Lasky, N. Norden, R.L. Chazdon, A. Andrade, J.L.
Andrade-Torres, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, T.V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar,
F. Bongers, V.S. Boukili, D.A. Clark, D.B. Clark, D. Craven, A.
DeFrancesco, J.M. Dupuy, B.G. Finegan, E. González-Jiménez, J.S.
Hall, K.E. Harms, P. Heitz, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, D. Kennard, T.J.
Killeen, S.G. Laurance, M.W.M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P.E.S.
Massocca, J.A. Meave, R.C.G. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muñoz Avilés, R.
Muscarella, H. Paz, E. Pérez-García , F. Pineda-García, J.S. Powers, R.
Quesada-Monge, E. Romero-Pérez, M.E. Sandor, L. Sanaphre-
Villanueva, E. Schüller, N.G. Swenson, A. Tauro, M. Uriarte, M. van
Breugel, O. Vargas-Ramírez, A. Wendt, G.B. Williamson, S.J. Wright.
2015. Pioneer genealogy: Evolutionary relatedness, trait conservatism,
and successional habitat affinity in tropical trees. Journal of Ecology.

Liptzin, D. and W. L. Silver. 2015. Spatial patterns in oxygen and redox
sensitive biogeochemistry in tropical forest soils. In press, Ecosphere.

Locatelli, B., C. Catterall, P. Imbach,  K. Chetan, R. Lasco, E. Marin-
Spiotta, B.  Mercer, J. Powers, N. Schwartz, and M. Uriarte. 2015.
Tropical reforestation and climate change: Beyond carbon. Restoration
Ecology.

McNicol, G. and W. L. Silver. 2015. High sensitivity of CO2 and
CH4 emissions to low oxygen availability in a peatland
soil. Biogeochemistry 123:299-306.

Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G. Swenson, J. K.
Zimmerman, and W. J. Kress. 2014. A well-resolved phylogeny of the
trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode sequence data.
PLoS
ONE 9(11): e112843. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112843
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Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D. L. Erickson, N. G. Swenson, J. K.
Zimmerman, W. J. Kress. In press. Climate and Biodiversity Effects on
Standing Biomass in Puerto Rican Forests. Caribbean Forester.

Muscarella, M., M. Uriarte, T. M. Aide, D. L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montaña,
W. J. Kress, N. G. Swenson, J. K. Zimmerman. In press. Functional
convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession
of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. J Vegetation Science.

Poorter and many co-authors. 2015. Does tropical forest tree diversity
enhance carbon storage? Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Umaña, M.N, J. Forero-Montaña, R. Muscarella, C. J. Nytch, J. Thompson,
M. Uriarte, J. K. Zimmerman, and N. G. Swenson. 2015. Inter-specific
functional similarity and intra-specific negative density dependence
underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees. American
Naturalist.

Uriarte,M., J. Thompson, B. Turner and J.K. Zimmerman. 2015. Linking
spatial patterns of leaf litterfall and soil nutrients in a tropical forest: A
neighborhood approach. Ecological Applications.

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