Below are listed a few of the recent publications written by LTER, or LTER related, scientists. If you wish to obtain a copy of one of the publications, contact the related LTER site (address given below each group of publication citations).
H.J. ANDREWS
Franklin, J.F., HR Shugart, and M.E. Harmon. 1987. Tree death as an ecological process: the causes, consequences, and variability of tree mortality. BioScience 37(8)550-556.
McKee, A., G.M. Stonedahl, J.F. Franklin, and F.J. Swanson (comps.) 1987. Research publications of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, Oregon, 1948 to 1986. Gen Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-201, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR. 74 p.
Perry, D.A. and C. Choquette. 1987. Allelopathic effects on mycorrhizae: influence on structure and dynamics of forest ecosystems. p. 185-194. 112 Allelochemicais: Role in Agriculture and Forestry. ACS Symposium Series 330. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.
Running, S.W., D.L Peterson, M.A. Spanner, and KB. Teuber. 1986. Remote sensing of coniferous forest leaf area. Ecology 67(1):273-276.
Schowalter, T.D. and D.A. Crossley, Jr. 1987. Canopy arthropods and their response to forest disturbance. p. 207-218. In W.T. Swank and D.A. Crossley, Jr. (eds), Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(Fred Swanson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 3200 Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331)
ARCTIC SITE
Chapin, F.S. and G.R, Shaver. 1985. Individualistic growth response of tundra plant species to manipulation of light, temperature, and nutrients in a field experiment. Ecology 66:564-576.
O’Brien, W.J. and D. Schmidt. 1979. Arctic Bosmina morphology and copepod predation. Limnology and Oceanography 24:564-568.
Peterson, B.J., J.E. Hobble, and T.L Corliss. 1986. Carbon flow in a tundra stream ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science.
Shaver, G.R., F.S. Chapin, Ill, and B.L Gartner. 1986. Factors limiting growth and biomass accumulation in Eriophorum vaginatum L. in Alaskan tussock tundra. Journal of Ecology 74:257-258
(John Hobbie, The Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543)
BONANZA CREEK
Dyrness, C.T., L.A. Viereck, M.J. Foote, and J.C. Zasada. The effects on vegetation and soil temperature of logging floodplain white spruce. Research Paper, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station (In press).
Juday, G.P. and CT. Dyrness (eds). 1984. Early results of the Rosle Creek fire research project. Misc. Pub. 85-2. Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Van Cleve, K., F.S. Chapin, P.W. Flanagan, L.A. Viereck, and C.T. Dyrness (eds). 1986. Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga. Ecological Studies 57, Springer-Verlag, New York. 230 p.
Van Cleve, K., OW. Heal, and D. Roberts. 1986. Bioassay of forest floor nitrogen supply for plant growth. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 16:6.
Yarte, J., K. Van Cleve, and R.L Schlentner. 1987. The interactions between moisture, nutrients, and growth of young white spruce in interior Alaska. Forest Ecology and Management (submitted).
(Keith Van Cleve, Forest Soils Laboratory, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775)
CEDAR CREEK
Huntly, N.J. and R.S. Inouye. 1987. Small mammal populations of an old-field chronosequence: successional patterns and associations with vegetation. Journal of Mammalogy, in press.
Inouye, R.S., N.J. Huntly, D. Tilman, J.R. Tester, M. Stillwett, and K.C. Zinnel. 1986. Old field succession on a Minnesota sandplain. Ecology 68:12-26.
Inouye, R.S., N.J. Huntly, D. Tilman, and J.R. Tester. 1987. Pocket gophers, vegetation and soil nitrogen along a succession sere in east central Minnesota. Oecologia 72:178-184.
Strauss, S. 1987. Direct and indirect effects of host plant fertilization on an insect herbivore community. Ecology (in press).
Tliman, D. 1987. Secondary succession and the pattern of plant dominance along experimental nitrogen gradients. Ecological Monographs 57:189-214.
(Dave Tilman, Ecology and Behavioral Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455)
CENTRAL PLAINS
Hunt, H.W., D.C. Coleman, E.R. Ingham, R.E. Ingham, E.T. Elliott, J.C. Moore, S.L Rose, C.P.P. Reid, and C.R. Morley. 1987. The detrital food web in a shortgrass prairie. Biology and Fertility of Soils 3:57-68.
Ingham, E.R., J.A. Trofymow, R.N. Ames, H.W. Hunt, C.R. Morley, J.C. Moore, and D.C. Coleman. 1986. Trophic interactions and nitrogen cycling in a semiarid grassland soil. Part I. Seasonal dynamics of the natural populations, their interactions and effects on nitrogen cycling. Journal of Applied Ecology 23:597-614.
Ingham, E.R., J.A. Trofymow, R.N. Ames, H.W. Hunt, C.R. Morley, J.C. Moore, and D.C. Coleman. 1986. Trophic interactions and nitrogen cycling in a semiarid grassland soil. Part II. System responses to removal of different groups of soil microbes or fauna. Journal of Applied Ecology 23:615-630.
Sala, O.E., W.J. Parton, L.A. Joyce, and W.K. Lauenroth. Primary production of the central grassland region of the United States: Spatial pattern and major controls. Ecology (in press).
Senft, R.L., M.B. Caughenour. D.W. Bailey, L.R. Rittenhouse, O.E. Saia, and D.M. Swift. Large herbivore foraging and ecological hierarchies. BioScience (in press).
(William Lauenroth, Department of Range Science and Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523)
COWEETA
Berish, C.W. and H.L Ragsdale. 1987. Metals in low elevation, southern Appalachian forest soils. Journal of Environmental Quality 15:183-187.
Davidson, E.A. and W.T. Swank. 1986. Environmental parameters regulating gaseous nitrogen losses from two forested ecosystems via nitrification and denitrification. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 52(6): 1287- 1292.
Golladay, S.W., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield. 1987. Changes in stream morphology and storm transport of seston following watershed disturbance. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 6(1): 1-11.
Grossman, G.D. and M.C. Freeman. 1987. Microhabitat use in a stream fish assemblage. Journal of Zoology, London 212:151-176.
Swank, W.T. and D.A. Crossley, Jr. (eds). 1987: Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Springer-Verlag, New York.
(D.A. Crossley, Jr., Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602)
HUBBARD BROOK
Bowden, W.E. and F.H. Bormann. 1986. Transport and loss of nitrous oxide in soil and water after forest clear-cutting. Science 233:867-869.
Federer, C.A. and J.W. Hornbeck. 1985. The buffer capacity of forest sols in New England, Water, Air, and SoN Pollution 26:163-173.
Fuller, R.D., C.T. Driscoll, S.C. Schindler, and M.J. Mitchell. 1986. A model of sulfur transformations in forested spodosols. Biogeochemistry 2:313-328.
Likens, G.E. (ed). 1985. An Ecosystem Approach to Aquatic Ecology: Mirror Lake and its Environment. Springer-Verlag, New York. 516 p.
Sherry, T.W. and R.T. Holmes. 1985. Dispersion patterns and habitat responses of birds in northern hardwood forests. p. 283-309. In M.L. Cody (ed), Habitat Selection in Birds. Academic Press, New York.
(Timothy Fahey, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853)
ILLINOIS AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS
Anderson, R.V. and D. Day. 1986. Predictive quality of macroinvertebrate-habitat associations in lower navigation pools of the Mississippi River. Hydrobiologia
136:101-112.
Bhowmik, N.G. and J.R. Adams. 1986. The hydrologic environment of Pool 19 of the Mississippi River. Hydrobiologia 136:21 -30.
Bhowmik, N.G., J.R. Adams, and R.E. Sparks. 1986. Fate of a navigation pool on the Mississippi River. ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 112(10):967-970.
Cahill, R.A. and A.D. Autrey. 1987. Measurement of 210Pb, 137Cs, organic carbon and trace elements in sediments of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 110(1):197-205.
Grubaugh, J., R.V. Anderson, D. Day, and K.S. Lubinski. 1986. Production and fate of organic material from Sagittarla latifolia and Nelumbo lutea in Pool 19, Mississippi River. Journal of Fresh Water Ecology 3:477-484.
(R.E. Sparks, Illinois Natural History Survey, River Research Laboratory, Havana, IL 62644)
JORNADA
Gutierrez, J.R. and W.G. Whitford. 1987. Responses of Chihuahuan Desert herbaceous annuals to rainfall augmentation. Journal of Arid Environment 12:127-1 39.
Lightfoot, D.C. and W.G. Whitford. 1987. Variation in insect densities on desert creosotebush: is nitrogen a factor? Ecology 68:547-557.
Ludwig, J.A. and J.M. Cornelius. 1987. Locating discontinuities along ecological gradients. Ecology 68:448-450.
Mackay, W.P., F.M. Fisher, S. Siva, and W.G. Whitford. 1987. The effects of nitrogen, water, and sulfur amendments on surface litter decomposition in the Chihuahuan Desert. Journal of Arid Environment 121:223-232.
(Walt Whitford, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003)
KONZA PRAIRIE
Abrams, M.D., AK. Knapp, and LC. Hubert. 1986. A ten-year record of aboveground biomass in a Kansas tallgrass prairie: Effects of fire and topographic position. American Joumal of Botany 73:1509-1515.
Finck, E.J., D.W. Kaufman, G.A. Kaufman, S.K. Gurtz, B.K. Clark, L.J. McLellan, and B.S. Clark. 1986. Mammals of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Kansas. Prairie Naturalist 18:153-166.
Gilliam, F.S., T.R. Seastedt, and AK. Knapp. 1987. Seasonality of grass canopy interception of precipitation in burned and unburned tallgrass prairie. Southwestern Naturalist 32:267-271.
Hayes, D.C. and T.R. Seastedt. 1987. Root dynamics of tallgrass prairie in wet and dry years. Canadian Journal of Botany 65:787-79.
Tate, C.M. and ME. Gurtz. 1986. Comparison of mass loss, nutrients, and invertebrates associated with elm leaf litter decomposition in perennial and intermittent reaches of tallgrass prairie streams. Southwestern Naturalist 31:511-520.
(Don Kaufman, Division of Biology, University of Kansas, Manhattan, KS 66506)
NIWOT RIDGE
Furbish, D.J. 1987. Conditions of geometric similarity of coarse streambed roughness. Mathematical Geology 19(4):291 -307.
Greenland, D. (ed.) 1987. Climates of the Long-Tem Ecological Research Sites. Occasional Paper 44, University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder. 81 p.
Hansen-Bristow, K.J. 1986. Influence of increasing elevation on growth characteristics at timberline. Canadian Journal of Botany 64:2517-2523.
Litaor, Mi. 1987. Aluminum chemistry: fractionation, specialization, and mineral equilibria of soil interstitial waters of an alpine water shed, Front Range, Colorado. Geochimica et Cosmochimica acta. 51:1285-1295.
Litaor, MI. 1987. The influence of eolian dust on the genesis of alpine soils in the Front Range, Colorado. Journal of Soil Science Society of America 51(1):142-147.
(Norman French, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309)
NORTH INLET
Childers, D. and H.N. McKellar, Jr. 1987. A simulation of salt marsh water column dynamics. Ecological Modeling 36:211-238.
Coutinho, R. and R. Zingmark. 1987. Diurnal photosynthetic responses to light on macroalgae. Journal of Psychology 23:336-343.
Gardner, L.R., P. Sharma, and W. Moore. 1987. A regeneration model for the effects of fiddler crabs burrow 210 Pb profiles in salt marsh sediments. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 5:25-36.
Marinelli, R.L and B.C. Coull. 1987. Structural complexes in juvenile fish predation on meiobecithos: an experimental approach. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 108:67-82.
Michener, W.K, R.J. Feller, and D. Edwards. 1987. Development, management, and analysis of a long-term ecological research information base: examples for marine macrobenthos. p.173-i 88. In New Approaches to Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems. ASTM, Philadelphia.
(John Vernberg, Baruch institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208)
NORTH TEMPERATE LAKES
Anderson, M.P. and C.J. Bowser. 1986. The role of groundwater in delaying lake acidification. Water Resources Research 22:1101-1108.
Armstrong, D.E., J.P. Hurley, D.W. Swackhamer, and M.M. Shafer. 1987. Cycles of Nutrient Elements, Hydrophobic Organic Compounds, and Metals in Crystal Lake. Role of Particle-Mediated Processes In Regulation. p. 491-518. In R.A. Hites and S.J. Elsenreich (eds), The Chemistry of Aquatic Pollutants, Advances In Chemistry Series, No. 216. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C.
Hurley, J.P., D.E. Armstrong, G.J. Kenoyer, and C.J. Bowser. 1985. Groundwater as a silica source for diatom production in a precipitation-dominated lake. Science 227:1576-1579.
Kratz, T.K., TM. Frost, and J.J. Magnuson. 1987. Inferences from spatial and temporal variability in ecosystems: analyses of long-term zooplankton data from a set of lakes. American Naturalist 129:830-846.
Magnuson, J.J., C.J. Bowser, and T.K. Kratz. 1984. Long-term ecological research on north temperate lakes (1.TER). Verh. Internat. Verlen. Limnol. 22:533-535.
(John Magnuson, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706)
VIRGINIA COAST RESERVE
Dolan, R., B.P. Hayden, and H. Uns. 1988. Mid-Atlantic coast extratropical storms. Geographic Review 78 (In press).
Dueser, R.D. and J.H. Porter. 1986. Habitat use by insular small mammals: relative effects of competition and habitat selection. Ecology 67:195-201.
Odum, W.E., T.J. Smith, III, J.K. Hoover, and C.C. McIvor. 1984. The ecology of tidal freshwater marshes of the United States east coast: a community profile. U.S. and Fish Wildlife Service FWS/OBS-83/17. 177 p.
Shugart, H.H. 1987. Dynamic ecosystem consequences of tree birth and death patterns. BioScience 37:596-602.
Zieman, J.C., S.A. Macko, and A.L. Mills. 1984. Role of seagrasses and mangroves in estuarine food webs: temporal and spatial changes in stable isotope composition and amino acid content during decomposition. Bulletin of Marine Science 35:380-392.
(Raymond Dueser, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22093)