Grad students Lindsay Stallcup and Marcelo Ardon (University of Georgia) leave for the field carrying mesh bags filled with five different types of leaves to be incubated in streams at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. This project is one of several leaf decomposition experiments taking place at La Selva and the Coweeta and Luquillo LTER sites. Some of these studies involve inter-site comparisons and have been funded by augmentation grants to the Coweeta LTER grant.
