CAP LTER Publication
"Approaches to the study of urban ecosystems: The case of Central Arizona-Phoenix" by Nancy B. Grimm and Charles L. Redman. In Urban Ecosystems (Published by Springer Science+Business Media B.V., formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V.); Volume 7, Number 3, September 2004; Pages 199 - 213; ISSN: 1083-8155 (Paper) 1573-1642 (Online).
Abstract
CAP LTER focuses on an arid-land ecosystem profoundly influenced, even defined, by the presence and activities of humans and is one of only two LTER sites that specifically studies the ecology of an urban system. In this large-scale project, biological, physical, and social scientists are working together to study the structure and function of the urban ecosystem, to assess the effects of urban development on surrounding agricultural and desert lands, and to study the relationship and feedbacks between human decisions and ecological processes. Our interdisciplinary investigations into the relationship between land-use decisions and ecological consequences in the rapidly growing urban environment of Phoenix are of broad relevance for the study of social ecological systems and cites in particular. Refinements in our conceptual model of social ecological systems focuses our attention on recognizing the scales and periodicities of ecological and human phenomena, understanding the means and impacts of human control of variability in space and time, and finally an evaluation of the resilience of various aspects of socio-ecological systems especially their vulnerabilities and their potential for adaptive learning.
Arctic Synthesis Book now Online
The synthesis book of the International Biological Program (IBP) Tundra Biome, "An Arctic Ecosystem: The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska," is now available online. The book, published in 1980, is an integrated discussion of a tundra ecosystem rather than a collection of independent papers. Although divided into chapters on abiotic settings, primary production processes, soil and decomposition processes, and herbivory, the complex lines of interaction and influence among the divisions run throughout the book. Within each of these subdivisions, the reader will find a common theme: the limitation of rates of biological processes by low temperature, the related conditions of short growing season, and the presence of permafrost. The book is put online jointly by the Marine Biological Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MBLWHOI) Library and the Arctic LTER project. The book joins another online book, "Limnology of Tundra Ponds, Barrow, Alaska" (1980), which is the synthesis volume for the aquatic projects in the Tundra Biome IBP.
For more information:
An Arctic Ecosystem: The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska: http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/databases/brown/index.html
Limnology of Tundra Ponds, Barrow, Alaska: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/53
Recently added to the Sevilleta Publications Database
Duran, K. L., Lowrey, T. K., Parmenter, R. R., Lewis, P. O. 2005. Genetic diversity in Chihuahuan Desert populations of creosotebush (Zygophyllaceae: Larrea tridentata). American Journal of Botany 94:722-729 [SEV Pub. No. 306]