Please download the following background materials as pdf documents. This information also will be provided upon arrival in the review packet. If you have any questions, please contact Sallie.Sprague@colostate.edu. We are looking forward to your visit.
Maps of Shortgrass Steppe
Central
Plains Experimental Range & Pawnee National Grassland – General
Vicinity
Central
Plains Experimental Range – Details
SGS Field Tour Route
Introduction and overview of SGS-LTER Program, Gene Kelly
Field Tour Information:
Stop 1 - Atmosphere-Ecosystem Interactions
(Open Top Chamber Site, ARS Headquarters, CPER)
o Overview,
Goals and Rationale, Jack Morgan
o Ecosystem Water Dynamics, Bill
Lauenroth
o Determining
Fluxes of Energy, Water & CO2, Jack Morgan
o Land-Atmosphere
Simulations, Adriana Beltran-Pzekurat
o Global
Change Modeling: Report and Figure,
Bill Parton
o Paleoenvironment/Climate Studies,
Alan Busacca
Stop 2 - Lunch
Stop 3 – Mountain Plover/Grazing Sites
(Section 1W, CPER)
o Overview,
Goals and Rationale, Bill Lauenroth
o Plant and Livestock Responses,
Justin Derner
o Small
Mammal and “Other Bird” Responses, Paul Stapp
o Nitrogen Dynamics, Indy Burke
o CO2 and Energy
Balance Responses, Jack Morgan
Stop 4 – Long
Term Biogeochemistry Investigations & Experiments – (Humus
Plots/Cross Site Experiment, Section 21 and SGS Headquarters, CPER)
o Overview, Goals and Rationale, Indy Burke
o Physiography and Biogeochemistry, Gene Kelly
o Si Biogeochemistry of Grasslands, Steve Blecker
o Nutrient and Water Availability and Ecosystem Structure, Daniel Milchunas
o Synthesis, Simulation and cross site analysis, Bill Parton
o Long Term Experimentation, Indy Burke
Stop 5 – Long Term Faunal Ecology Experiments
(Prairie Dog Towns, Section 27/28, CPER)
o Overview, Goals
and Rationale, Mike Antolin
o Swift
Foxes, Safi Darden
o Prairie Dogs, Dan Tripp (Included in Overview, goals and rationale)
o Small
Mammal Studies, Paul Stapp
o Plant/Faunal
Interactions, Jim Detling
o Below Ground
Community Responses, Meghan Quirk
SGS-LTER Poster Session Abstracts
Information Management
(IM), Nicole Kaplan and Bob Flynn
o Table of Long-term Studies
o Tables and Figures
o Acronyms and Additional IM
Project Information
Education and Outreach Activities, John Moore and Laurel Hartley
Publications (2002 – 2005)
o Journal Articles
o Abstracts
o Books and Book Chapters
o Dissertations and Theses
o Technical Reports
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