2007. Blanco, Vera & Ortíz-Zayas. The influence of teleconnections on rainfall variability in southwestern Puerto Rico. Pages: 55-61. In: Proceedings of V FRIEND World Conference, Havana, Cuba. Selected presentations on Latin America and the Caribbean. UNESCO-International Hydrological Program VI Technical Document IHP-LAC No. 11. (In English, see attached).
The published version of this paper came to my hands just last month but I think it would be of interest for those working the climatic hypotheses.
We proposed a Joint Index combining the SO and NAO indices and found that it significantly explained yearly variability of rainfall in the Guanica State Forest. It would be interesting to search for similar signatures of teleconnections on rainfall and other parameters within the LEF.
Ostertag,
R., E. Marin-Spiotta, W. L. Silver, and J. Shulten. Litterfall and decomposition
in relation to soil carbon pools along a secondary forest chronosequence in
Puerto Rico. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9152-1. See attached.
Templer, P. M., W. L. Silver, J. Pett-Ridge, and M. K. Firestone. Plant and
microbial controls on nitrogen retention and loss in tropical forest soils. In
press, Ecology.
Marín-Spiotta, E., D.F. Cusack, R. Ostertag, and W.L. Silver. Trends in above
and belowground carbon with forest regrowth after agricultural abandonment in
the Neotropics. In: R. Myster, ed. Post-agricultural Succession in the
Neotropics. Springer, New York, NY. In press.
Teh, Y. A., E. A. Dubinski, W. L. Silver, and C. M. Carlson. 2008. Acetate
competition between methanogenic archaea and Fe(III)-reducing bacteria in
tropical rain forest soils. Global Change Biology 14:413-422. See
attached.
Marin-Spiotta, E., C. W. Swanston, M. S. Torn, W. L. Silver, and S. D.
Burton. 2008. Chemical and mineralogical control of soil carbon storage during
tropical reforestation. Geoderma 143: 49-62. See attached.
New paper accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research entitled "Is there a 'middle-way' between permanent plots and chronosequences?" with Michael Malahy.
This is my second paper using data from LTERDBAS #97.
Information manager Eda C. Melendez-Colom participated in the First Training for Information Managers, sponsored by and held at the LTER Network Office (LNO), last May 19 to 23. The training was on learning XML (Extensible Markup Language) - "a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere" -http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213404,00.html).
Also, from June 16 to the 20th, Marsh White and Inigo San Gil, from the LNO, will be visiting the LUQ LTER IM office to collaborate with Eda in the designing of a new web site (http://luq.lternet.edu). Suggestions in regard to the content and design of the new web site are welcome. Please send them to Eda at emelendez@lternet.edu.
Walker, L.R., and A.B. Shiels. Post-disturbance erosion impacts carbon fluxes and plant succession on recent tropical landslides. Plant and Soil, in press.
Shiels, A.B., C.A. West, L. Weiss, P.D. Klawinski, and L.R. Walker. 2008. Soil factors predict initial plant colonization on Puerto Rican landslides. Plant Ecology 195: 165-178. (pdf attached)
Compiled by Jody Potter, University of New Hamshire (Jody.Potter@unh.edu)
Web-published by Eda C. Meléndez-Colom (emelendez@lternet.edu)
June 16, 2008