New Project
We recently received funding for a new project titled "The Effect of Climate on the Terrestial Sulfur Cycle" with Ron Amundson, Rob Rhew, myself, and Mark Thiemens. The study will explore how sulfur cycling varies along a global moisture gradient from one of the driest places on earth, the Atacama desert in Chile, to strongly seasonal environments in California, and relative aseasonal wet ecosystems in Puerto Rico.
New Publications In Press
Cusack, D. F., W. W. Chou. W. H. Yang. M. E. Harmon, and W. L. Silver. Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests. In press, Global Change Biology.
Marin-Spiotta, W. L. Silver, K. Shamieh, E., C. W. Swanston, and R. Ostertag. Soil carbon gain and loss during 80 years of reforestation of tropical pastures. In press, Global Change Biology.
Harmon, M. E., W. L. Silver, B. Fasth, H. Chen, W. J. Parton, & LIDET. Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: An intersite comparison. In press, Global Change Biology.
McGroddy, M. E., W. L. Silver, R. Cosme de Oliveira Jr., W. Zamboni de Mello, and M. Keller. The fate of phosphorus in a highly weathered Amazonian forest ecosystem: biological versus geochemical cycling. In press, JGR-Biogeosciences.
New Publication from USGS WEBB project in Luquillo
Buss HL, Sak PB, Webb SM, Brantley SL (2008) Weathering of the Rio Blanco quartz diorite, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: Coupling oxidation, dissolution, and fracturing. Geochim Cosmochim Acta, 72, 4488-4507.
Compiled by : Jody Potter Jody.Potter@unh.edu
Published on Web by Eda C. Melendez-Colom (emelendez@lternet.edu)
October 16, 2008