[LTER-luq] Fwd: Final litterfall graph (until we add palms)

[Willig, Michael]

All,

More soon …

In the meantime … it would be good to get canopy opening/light penetration at the 40 points on the LFDP too …

Mike

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From: luq [mailto:luq-bounces at lists.lternet.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Stankavich
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 12:44 PM
To: Alan Covich <alanc at uga.edu>
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Subject: Re: [LTER-luq] Fwd: Final litterfall graph (until we add palms)

Regarding the canopy light, a volunteer just finished taking canopy photos from March to June from all the seedling plots in the LFDP. I am also scheduled to take a set of canopy photos in the CTE plots after I get back from ASM.

Sarah

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Alan Covich <alanc at uga.edu<mailto:alanc at uga.edu>> wrote:
WOW! That is an amazing response (to drought?) indicating some type of threshold in soil moisture?

Are data on light to see what the canopy is doing?

Did you have leaf-fall data from before and after 1994 on the Big Grid?

Alan

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jess Zimmerman <jesskz at ites.upr.edu<mailto:jesskz at ites.upr.edu>> wrote:
Hi All,

To contribute to our discussions going on, I pass along the litterfall graph that Sarah prepared that compares litterfall YTD vs. the averages since the CTE started in 2002.  There was an immense amount during one single fortnight in May.  It was so much that it took all the staff to collect it all.  I spoke to John Bithorn yesterday and he told me he was many species, not just a few, that contributed to the peak.  We'll keep you posted as more data are added.  We are also analyzing the data set on palm litter, too.

jess

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Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Final litterfall graph (until we add palms)
To: Jess Zimmerman <jesskz at ites.upr.edu<mailto:jesskz at ites.upr.edu>>

Here you go

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