Prairie Project News
Lauren in the News!
Prairie restoration project earns national conservation fellowship
Read the entire article at ISU NEWS: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/dec/sullivantoyota
AMES, Iowa - An Iowa State University doctoral candidate is one of 40 students nationwide selected as a TogetherGreen fellow from The National Audubon Society and Toyota earning $10,000.
The award will go toward a community project to engage local residents, contribute to environmental health and conserve land, water, and energy.
Lauren Sullivan earned the fellowship through her work restoring a four-acre corn plot (located west of the corner of Ontario and Hyland in Ames) back to native prairie.
Wei starts job at new Yunnan Biodiversity Institute
Wei is now an assistant professor at Yunnan Academy of Biodiversity, Southwest Forestry University, China. Congratulations Wei!
NutNet Interview
Stan, Elizabeth and Eric discuss productivity and diversity with the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs:
Open-Source Ecology
Nutrient Network Featured in Science News:
Stokstad E. (2011). Open-Source Ecology Takes Root Across the World Science. 334:308-309. PDF
“This is like an indie garage band.”
—STAN HARPOLE, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Get over the hump
NutNet Science paper in press--the whole lab took part in this important paper (Wei Li is absent from the photo), led by Peter Adler, which challenges the existence of a general hump-shaped productivity-diversity relationship.
https://cnr.usu.edu/htm/facstaff/adler-web/adler_publications/
News Articles:
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/sep/harpolescience
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/isu-nac092211.php
http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/biomass-link-to-plant-diversity-questioned/
See Jeremy Fox's comments on the Oikos Blog: http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/thoughts-on-nutnet/
Nutrient Network Workshop #3
Brent, Paul and Stan participate in top-down-bottom-up Nutrient Network data meeting in St. Paul.
Co-Limitation
Co-limitation paper in Ecology Letters, Idea and Perspective
Harpole, W.S., J.T. Ngai, E.E. Cleland, E.T. Borer, M.E.S. Bracken, J.J. Elser, D.S. Gruner, H. Hillebrand, E.W. Seabloom, J.B. Shurin, J.E. Smith. Resource co-limitation of primary producer communities. (In Press). Ecology Letters, Idea and Perspective.
A Faculty of 1000 Must Read: Sommaruga R: "This review provides a robust and comprehensive summary and analysis of studies where the role..." Evaluation of: [Harpole WS et al. Nutrient co-limitation of primary producer communities. Ecol Lett. 2011 Jul 12; doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01651.x]. Faculty of 1000, 08 Aug 2011. F1000.com/12521958
Diversity and Ecosystem Function
Diversity-Ecosystem Function paper in press in Nature
Isbell, F, V. Calcagno, A. Hector, J. Connolly, W. S. Harpole, P. B. Reich, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, B. Schmid, D. Tilman, J. van Ruijven, A. Weigelt, B. J. Wilsey, E. S. Zavaleta, M. Loreau. How many species are needed to maintain ecosystem functioning? (In Press). Nature.
“...many species are needed to maintain multiple functions at multiple times and places in a changing world.”
http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/plant-diversity-keeps-things-in-check/
California NutNet Tour 2011
We had another great sampling trip to the Hopland, McLaughlin and Sierra NutNet sites.
Lauren’s paper in press in Ecology
Link to the Corridor Project: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~haddad/Corridors/SRScorridor.html