Presented by Paschalis Chatzopoulos of Uppsala University. How can we better understand the height of palm trees?
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LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Foliar thermotolerance of tropical understory shrubs in response to experimental warming. By Rob Tunison of TRACE.
How well do tropical understory plants acclimate to long-term warming?
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Fine root respiration within the litter layer of a wet tropical forest. By Nicole Gutiérrez of TRACE.
What is the contribution of litter roots to overall root respiration? @ForestWarming
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Roí A.K., Lora Murphy, Jazlynn Hall, and professor María Uriarte
from the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, at Columbia University, NY, presented on Drivers of canopy structural complexity in a tropical forest at the landscape scale
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: TRACE Science Communication Tools and Strategies.
Discussed social media and community outreach by TRACE – Iana F. Grullón-Penkova @ForestWarming https://www.forestwarming.org/
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Habitat preferences and distribution of two common bryophytes in the LFDP.
More of the bryophyte Thuidium were found in riparian zones. @AmeliaMerced Amelia Merced -IITF USFS.
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Enhancing studies of watershed biogeochemistry with real time sensors.
Nitrate levels in stream water returned to baseline in Quebrada Sonadora in 18 months, takes years in Rio Icacos. Bill McDowell UNH.
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Variation in leaf litter decomposition rates determined by differences in shrimp macroconsumer abundance in two tropical montane streams, Puerto Rico.
Leaf decomposition rates nearly twice as high with shrimp present. presented by Max Kelly UGA.
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: @JAaronHogan talks about recruitment dynamics in the understory of the Canopy Trimming Experiment in relation to light and soil moisture.
LUQ LTER 2021 recap: Stream Flow Reduction Experiment (StreamFRE)- Time to start.
This is our stream drought simulation experiment, a project that will start a flow reduction this year to assess its effects on multiple components of stream ecosystems. Updates via @ARamirezLab