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February 19, 2018 by NREL EcoPress

Dear loyal EcoPress readers, We have migrated to the new Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory website. You can find all new posts at the URL below as well as a new layout and structure. If you have any questions or concerns please comment here. https://www.nrel.colostate.edu/ecopress/ Best, Isabella Oleksy EcoPress Editor-in-Chief

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Ecosystem Science for the 21st Century – Celebrating NREL’s 50th anniversary

November 6, 2017 by NREL EcoPress

This year marks the 7th International Colloquium hosted by Colorado State University,which will be held in the Lory Student Center on November 14th and 15th. This year’s theme is Ecosystem Science for the 21st Century, motivated by the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory’s 50th anniversary. The Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), established in 1967, is one of the first institutions in the world devoted to the inherently interdisciplinary field of ecosystem research.  During the early years, the NREL established a rigorous […]

Categories: conference, Education, Featured, Global Change, News, Symposium

NREL/ESS Publications: October 2017

November 10, 2017 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during October 2017. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Boone, R. B. (2017). Evolutionary Computation in Zoology and Ecology. Current Zoology. zox057. Cavaleri, M. A., Coble, A. P., Ryan, M. G., , Bauerle, W. L., Loescher, H. W., & Oberbauer, S. F. (2017). Tropical rainforest carbon sink declines during El Niño as a result of reduced photosynthesis and increased respiration rates. New Phytologist, 216(1), 136-149. […]

Categories: Recent Publications • Tags: Aldridge, Boone, Edmunds, Green, Monroe, Renwick, Romme, Ryan

NREL/ESS Publications: September 2017

October 10, 2017 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during September 2017. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print De Kauwe, M. G., Medlyn, B. E., Walker, A. P., Zaehle, S., Asao, S., Guenet, B., … & Lu, X. (2017). Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long‐term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment. Global Change Biology. Fassnacht, S. R., Webb, R. W., & Sanford, W. E. (2017). Headwater regions—physical, […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Asao, Beeton, Chignell, Conant, Dewes, Evangelista, Fassnacht, Luizza, McNeeley, Moore, Paustian, Pressler, Rangwala, Stewart, Trivedi, Wallenstein, Williams, Young, Zempila

To restore our soils, feed the microbes

October 3, 2017 by NREL EcoPress

Tamotsu Ito/Shutterstock.com This article was originally published on The Conversation. By Matt Wallenstein Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. What many think of as “just dirt” is actually an incredibly complex mixture of rock-derived minerals, plant-derived organic matter, dissolved nutrients, gases and a rich food web of interacting organisms. By plowing and overtilling, we have increased erosion on agricultural fields by 10 to 100 times natural rates. […]

Categories: agriculture, Articles, Education, soils, Sustainability • Tags: agriculture, innovation, microbes, soil microbiology, soils

How the international community can enhance resilience to natural disaster risk

September 19, 2017 by NREL EcoPress

Reflections of Mountain Sentinels at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun, Mexico  by Jessica Thorn Just last year, the Columbia landslide, the Peruvian floods, Ecuadorian earthquakes, and Hurricane Matthew in Haiti caused catastrophic infrastructural damage, deaths and financial losses across the Americas. Concurrently, El Niño and drought affected 60 million people across the African continent, with impacts of health, livelihoods, stocking rates, social unrest and conflict, migration and corruption. Such events highlight the urgent need to […]

Categories: Articles, Events, Global Change, Mountain Ecology, professional development • Tags: Africa, Disaster risk reduction, Jessica.Thorn, Julia.Klein, mountain sentinels, reflections, social-ecological systems

NREL/ESS Publications: August 2017

September 11, 2017 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during August 2017. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Chung, W., Evangelista, P., Anderson, N., Vorster, A., Han, H., Poudel, K., & Sturtevant, R. (2017). Estimating Aboveground Tree Biomass for Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado. Forest Science, 63(4) Online Renwick, KM., C. Caroline, A.R. Kleinhesselink, D. Schlaepfer, B.A. Bradley, C.L. Aldridge, B. Poulter, and P.B Adler.  2017.  Multi-model […]

Categories: Recent Publications • Tags: Aldridge, Evangelista, Forster, Trivedi, Wallenstein

NREL/ESS Publications: July 2017

September 1, 2017 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during July 2017. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print García‐Palacios, P., Shaw, E. A., Wall, D. H., & Hättenschwiler, S. (2017). Contrasting mass‐ratio vs. niche complementarity effects on litter C and N loss during decomposition along a regional climatic gradient. Journal of Ecology. Monroe, A. P., Hill, J. G., & Martin, J. A. (2017). Spread of exotic grass in grazed native grass […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Klein, McNeeley, Monroe, Wall, Wallenstein

NREL/ESS Publications: June 2017

July 13, 2017 by amandajmorrisoncsu

This summary includes publications first published online and/or in print during June 2017. If a publication was missed for this period, please contact Amanda Morrison at amanda.j.morrison@colostate.edu. In Print Monroe, A. P., Aldridge, C. L., Assal, T. J., Veblen, K. E., Pyke, D. A., & Casazza, M. L. (2017). Patterns in Greater Sage‐grouse population dynamics correspond with public grazing records at broad scales. Ecological Applications, 27(4), 1096-1107. Vries, F. T., & Wallenstein, M. D. (2017). Below‐ground connections underlying above‐ground food production: a framework […]

Categories: Recent Publications, Uncategorized • Tags: Aldridge, Fassnacht, Green, Monroe, Wallenstein