Riverine systems' changes affect food chain

Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

Riverine systems' changes affect food chain

Riverine systems are altered by flooding and drought. CAP scientist John Sabo and colleagues have examined the impacts of these alterations on food-chain lengths. Their findings, published recently in Science

CAP LTER featured in National Research Council publication

CAP LTER has been featured as an urban sustainability research program in a recent National Research Council publication, Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Research and Development. The book is the result

CAP LTER Semester Welcome

When: 3:30-5:00 PM Friday, September 17, 2010 Where: Global Institute of Sustainability, Room 481, 800 S. Cady Mall, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus Who: All currently involved faculty

CAP Scientist Speaks In Italy

CAP LTER scientist, Paige Warren traveled to Ferrara, Italy in July for the Fifth European Conference on Behavioral Biology. She was invited to serve as the opening speaker in a

Tempe Town Lake research opportunities

Since Tempe Town Lake was created in 1999, CAP LTER scientists have been using this artificial body of water as a field and teaching site. The failure of one of

Spring 2010 Network News available

The Spring 2010 edition of the Network News is now available online.

LTER Network receives Distinguished Scientist Award

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has announced that the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network will receive the 2010 AIBS Distinguished Scientist Award. CAP LTER, as one of the

Quarterly message from CAP Co-Director Nancy Grimm

I am very pleased to inform all of my CAP LTER colleagues that our renewal proposal to the NSF has been recommended for funding! This is a tremendous accomplishment that

ASU experts grapple with gene-based medicine questions on PBS

Sooner than we think, we will have access to our own genetic codes. Are we ready to join the DNA generation? Two ASU researchers, Gary Marchant and George Poste, will

Kendra Busse's thesis defense

Kendra Busse will be defending her thesis Effect of Residential Landscape Design on Undercanopy Microclimate on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM in Room 330, Wanner Building, Arizona State

Survey 200 underway

In February 2010, CAP LTER began collecting data once again at 204 sites in metropolitan Phoenix and the surrounding desert. This effort, Survey 200, takes place every five years at

CAP scientists featured at NSF LTER Mini-Symposium

The National Science Foundation (NSF) held its annual Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Mini-Symposium on March 4, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The mini-symposium, "Ecosystem Services in a Changing World," featured presentations