Announcing a workshop on resource pulse use in arid ecosystems
Location: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Time: August 2-4, 2002 (in advance of the Annual ESA Meeting)
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Announcing a workshop on resource pulse use in arid ecosystems Location: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Time: August 2-4, 2002 (in advance of the Annual ESA Meeting) |
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Summary
Book Outline |
Preliminary outline: RESOURCE PULSE EFFECTS IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID ECOSYSTEMS INTRODUCTION 1.
Event analysis for ecology as a basis for ecological synthesis PART I.
From precipitation to soil moisture pulse 2.
Precipitation patterns in arid and semi-arid regions 3.
Hydrologic partitioning of precipitation 4.
Spatio-temporal soil moisture patterns arid lands PART
II.
Ecosystem responses to soil moisture pulse events 5.
Effects of water pulses on nitrogen turnover 6.
Effects of water pulses on carbon dynamics 7.
Pulse responses of biological crusts 8.
Pulse use by plants: physiological tradeoffs 9.
Pulse use by plants: tradeoffs among functional groups 10.
Pulse use by plants: cold versus warm deserts 11.
Pulse use by plants: riparian zones 12.
Measuring integrated ecosystem pulse responses PART III.
Consequences of stochastic, event-driven resource renewal 13.
Developmental plasticity in a pulse-driven resource
environment 14.
Competition for resource pulses 15. The role of soil moisture pulses in shrub and tree recruitment 16. The role of pulse events in long-term vegetation dynamics 17.
Consequences of resource pulse events for primary and secondary
consumers OUTLOOK |