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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Amy Austin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Effects of pulses and water availability on decomposition dynamics in arid and semiarid ecosystems. T
Phillip B. Allen, Jake Wetzin and Paul J. Hanson, University of Tennessee Effects of changing precipitation regimes on native tree recruitment, survival and composition in an upland oak forest in east Tennessee P

Jayne Belnap, Nicole Barger, Susan L. Phillips, USGS, Moab

The effect of precipitation timing and amount on biological soil crusts: species composition and carbon and nitrogen balances T
David D. Breshears, Orrin B. Myers and Farley J. Barnes, Los Alamos National Laboratoty Vertical and horizontal components of plant-available water: soil moisture heterogeneity in a semiarid woodland T

I. C. Burke, E. C. Adair, R. L. McCulley,  P. Lowe, S. DelGrosso and W. K. Lauenroth, Colorado State University

The importance of pulse dynamics in nutrient availability: evidence and questions T

Peter Chesson, University of California, Davis

The role of pulse-driven resource supply in diversity maintenance T
Urszula Choromanska and John Stark, University of Utah Pulse effects on C and N biogeochemical transformations in big sage, crested wheatgrass and cheatgrass systems. P
K.E. Dayem, D.D. Breshears, Los Alamos National Laboratory, C.D. Allen, US Geological Survey, Los Alamos  Modeling ecosystem response to variation in drought duration and intensity: assessing implications from climate change P
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah Overview of responses to water pulse  T
Morgan Ernest and Jim Brown, University of New Mexico Long-term dynamics of desert rodents: complex relationships between consumers and resources T
Roberto Fernandez, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, James F. Reynolds, Duke University From 'pulse/reserve' to a 'pulse/response-effect' paradigm: the importance of biotic feedbacks in the water balance of arid ecosystems P

Renate Gebauer, Keene State University

Is there competition for water and N pulses in a cold desert community? T

Deborah Goldberg, University of Michigan

Competition for pulsed resource T
Travis Huxman, David Williams,  University of Arizona Pulse effects on carbon flux at the ecosystem scale  T
Sasha Ivans, Lawrence E. Hipps,Utah State University Response of CO2 flux to rain events in Juniperus osteosperma and Artemisia tridentata ecosystems using eddy covariance measurements P
Sinisha Ivans, Nicanor Saliendra; Douglas A. Johnson USDA-ARS, Logan Short-term effects of rainfall on CO2 fluxes over Artemisia, Bromus tectorum and Agropyron ecosystems P
Bill Lauenroth, Colorado State University Pulse Climatic Events in the Western U.S T

Josh Leffler and Ron Ryel, Utah State University

Above- and below-ground responses to transient rain events in Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) and big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) T

Michael Loik, University of California, Santa Cruz

Introduction to PrecipNet: Improving  understanding of precipitation effects on ecosystems through cross-disciplinary research networks. T

Jeremy Lundholm, D.W. Larson, University of Guelph, Canada

Pulsed aridity in a temperate biome: diversity maintenance in rock outcrop plant communities T
Rebecca McCulley, Colorado State University, Tom Boutton, Texas A&M University, Steve Archer, University of Arizona

Pulse Irrigation Effects on Soil Respiration and Microbial Biomass in a Semi-Arid Thorn Woodland

 

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Ariel Novoplansky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Plastic strategies under pulsed conditions T
Kiona Ogle and James F. Reynolds, Duke University The importance of precipitation seasonality to the growth of the desert shrub Larrea tridentata (creosotebush) P

Amilcare Porporato, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

Long-term predictions for pulse effects on soil carbon and nitrogen using a stochastic soil moisture model T

Jim Reynolds, Duke University, Paul Kemp, University of San Diego

Shrub-grass transitions in the Jornada Basin in the past century: experimental and modeling evidence do not support climate hypotheses T
Damián Ravetta, Diego Wassner, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina The effect of precipitation events on the production of resin on Grindelia chiloensis and its transport into the soil. P
Gitane Royce, Desert Research Institute Effect of Increased Summer Precipitation on High Temperature Tolerance for Purshia tridentata P
Osvaldo Sala, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Morphological and physiological constraints on pulse utilization. T

Darren Sandquist, California State University, Fullerton

Water pulse use by Hawaiian dry forest trees P
Sean M. Schaeffer and R.D. Evans, University of Arkansas Pulse effects on microbial activity and nutrient cycling in a Colorado Plateau desert ecosystem P
Jochen Schenk, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Sizes and shapes of root systems in pulse-driven arid ecosystems. T

Susan Schwinning, Bio 2, Columbia University, Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah

Summer pulse use in cold-desert shrubs and grasses  T
Anna Sher, Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Deborah Goldberg, Univ. of Michigan, Ariel Novoplansky, Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev Mediterranean versus desert species response to pulse gradients and diffuse competition.  T

John Stark, Utah State University

Timing of soil nutrient pulses in semiarid ecosystems. T
Jeff Stone and Ginger Paige, USDA/ARS Tucson The interaction of rainfall intensity and spatial patterns of soil and vegetation cover on semi-arid rangelands T

Bob Webb,Todd Esque, and Phil Medica, USGS, Tucson

The wet 1980s followed by the 1989-91 drought: winners and losers among perennial vegetation in the northern Mojave desert T
Jake Weltzin, University of Tennessee Recruitment of woody plants in semi-arid savannas: the role of spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture T

Kerstin Wiegand, Universität Giessen, Germany

Minimum recruitment frequency in plants with episodic recruitment T
María Laura Yahdjian, Osvaldo E. Sala and Amy T. Austin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Drought effects on decomposition and nitrogen dynamics: a manipulative experiment in the Patagonian Steppe P