News

Brent's Nature Knowledge Article Published

Plant Resistance against Herbivory

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/plant-resistance-against-herbivory-96675700

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks?

4/2/13

Plant-Soil Feedback Meta-Analysis and Model

Consequences of plant–soil feedbacks in invasion

Suding, K, W.S. Harpole, T. Fukami, A. Kulmatiski, A. MacDougall, C. Stein, W. van der Putten. (2013). Community-level consequences of plant-soil feedbacks in invasion. Journal of Ecology. 101:298–308.

2/22/13

Biochar Meta-Analysis in Press

Biochar and its effects on plant productivity and nutrient cycling: a meta-analysis

Biederman L., W.S. Harpole. (2013). Biochar and its effects on plant productivity and nutrient cycling: a meta-analysis. Global Change Biology–Bioenergy, Special Issue: Biochar. 5:202–214.

http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/11-27-2012/research-looks-effects-biochar-prairies

http://envnewsbits.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/isu-researchers-explore-the-effects-of-biochar-on-downstream-ecosystems/

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_10b8f6e4-3ca4-11e2-9dcb-001a4bcf887a.html

12/31/12

Paul Defends his Masters!

Congratulations to Paul Frater for successfully defending his Masters Thesis!

Factors affecting mycorrhizal colonization in Schizachyrium scoparium

11/5/12

ESA 2012 Portland

Nutrients Destroy Niches

OOS 34 - Global Ecology to Address Global-Scale Environmental Change: Results From the Nutrient Network

8/8/12

ESA Global Ecology Panel

Summary: Preserving and enhancing the Earth’s life-support systems requires a new, inter-disciplinary, global-scale approach to ecological research. This Special Session will explore a range of approaches to conducting large-scale ecology, representing regional to global efforts, with the objective to create opportunities for synthesis and collaboration.

8/8/12

ASLO meeting at Lake Biwa, Japan

7/4/12

Prairie Project News

Lauren in the News!

Prairie restoration project earns national conservation fellowship:

http://www.togethergreen.org/People/FellowDetails.aspx?fellowID=144

Iowa State Daily: http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_357ad848-56c8-11e1-85de-001871e3ce6c.html

Featured article in Ames Tribune Green Together:

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.

And the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER):

12/13/11