Ongoing and recent cross-site projects conducted at Luquillo LTER, including collaborating sites and colleagues (italics indicate current LUQ Senior Investigators):
|
Project Name |
Colleagues |
LTER Site and/or countries |
| Global environmental changes and terrestrial-aquatic linkages |
Ball, Kominoski, Adams, Jones, Kane, Loecke, Mahaney, Martina, Prather, Robinson, Solomon |
CWT, MCM, ARC, NTL, BNZ, KBS, LUQ |
| Spatial patterns of diadromous and non/diadromous stream fauna in Puerto Rico (Greater Antilles) and Gorgona Island (Eastern Pacific, Colombia) | Blanco, Scatena |
Puerto Rico and Gorgona Island |
| Ecology of neotropical neritid snails (Gastropoda: Neritidae). Blanco | Blanco, Scatena | Puerto Rico, Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Colombia (various sites) |
| Development of a Governance History data base and guides to develop LTER Information Management ByLaws | Meléndez-Colom, Baker, Kaplan | PAL, SGS, LUQ |
| Global warming and vulnerability of tropical biota: Where do the thermal specialists live? | Richardson, Richardson, Laurance, Williams, Kitching, Pearson, Huey, Krockenburger | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute [Balboa, Panama], Lesser Antilles and Australian Rainforest sites, LUQ |
| Relationship between nutrient inputs, faunal diversity and abundance | Richardson, Srivastava | Dominica, Saba [Netherlands Antilles], Costa Rica, Brazil, LUQ |
| Bromeliad phytotelmata in lower montane and cloud forests. Biogeographical study | Richardson, Srivastava | Dominica, Saba [Netherlands Antilles], Costa Rica, Brazil, LUQ |
| Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Network | Scatena, Silver | Volunteer network of sites worldwide |
| US HIP/UNESCO Help Program | Scatena, Ortiz | 12 basins in the US, including Andrews; many basins world wide |
| NSF Critical Zone Network | Scatena | Tropical sites worldwide |
| FRIEND/AMIGO | Scatena | UNESCO network on Caribbean hydrology |
| Tropical nutrient limitation |
Silver, Cleveland, Townsend, Bustmante, Sierra, Tanner, Poder, Houlton, Harms, Reed, Weider, Grierson, Chuyong, Alvarez-Clare | LUQ, Guanica, La Selva, Monte Verde, BCI, Tapajos, and many other tropical sites (64 total) |
| LIDET (Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team) | Silver, Lodge, Harmon, Burke, Parton, Hart, Currie | Most LTER sites in the US Network |
| ETBC: Collaborative Research: "The Effect of Climate on the Terrestial
Sulfur Cycle" |
Silver, Amundson, Rhew, Thiemans | LUQ, Atacama Desert, Merced CA, Bay Delta CA |
| Ecosystem resilience working group |
Silver, Thompson, McNulty, Mackey, Mosseler | LUQ and pan tropical |
| Tropical forest dynamics - CTFS (Center for Tropical Forest Science) | Thompson, Brokaw, Zimmerman, Meléndez-Colom, Davies, Condit, others | 15 international sites |
| Developing a hurricane network for the Greater Caribbean Basin |
Waide, Brokaw, Zimmerman, Willig, Gaiser, Herrera, Rivera-Monroy, Maass, Imbert Berger, and others | Mexico |
| Socio-Ecological Studies at LTER sites |
Zimmerman, Scatena | All LTER sites |
Soil carbon stabilization and soil heterogeneity in tropical forests |
Zou | Xishuangbanna, China |
| Fern Population Dynamics | Sharpe |
LUQ, Maine |
| Development of a new Information Management Framework: the Drupal Ecological Information Management System (DEIMS) | San Gil, White, Meléndez-Colom, Vanderbilt | MCM, LNO, LUQ, SEV |
Last Updated:
December 27, 2011
By: ECMC