Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites

by Greenland, David; Goodin, Douglas G.; Smith, Raymond C.

• ISBN13: 9780195150599
• ISBN10: 0195150597
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is beingworked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climatechange research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Abbreviations	xvii
1 An Introduction to Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response	3	(20)
David Greenland, Douglas G. Goodin, and Raymond C. Smith
I Short-Term Climate Events
Introductory Overview	23	(2)
David Greenland
2 Hurricane Impacts in New England and Puerto Rico	25	(18)
Emery R. Boose
3 Drought Impacts on Tree Growth and Mortality of Southern Appalachian Forests	43	(13)
Brian D. Kloeppel, Barton D. Clinton, James M. Vose, and Aaron R. Cooper
4 Climate Variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing Drought Severity Patterns	56	(18)
Stuart H. Gage
5 Climate Forcing at the Arctic LIER Site	74	(18)
John E. Hobbie, Neil Bettez, Linda A. Deegan, James A. Laundre, Sally MacIntyre, Steven Oberbauer, W. John O'Brien, Gaius Shaver, and Kane Slavik
Short-Term Climatic Events--Synthesis	92	(7)
David Greenland
II The Quasi-Quintennial Timescale
Introductory Overview	99	(3)
Raymond C. Smith
6 An LIER Network Overview and Introduction to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Climatic Signal and Response	102	(15)
David Greenland
7 The Climate of the Central Arizona and Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Site (CAP LTER) and Links to ENSO	117	(24)
Anthony J. Brazel and Andrew W. Ellis
8 Watershed Hydrological and Chemical Responses to Precipitation Variability in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico	141	(17)
Douglas Schaefer
9 Climate Variability and Ecological Response of the Marine Ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region	158	(16)
Raymond C. Smith, William R. Fraser, and Sharon E. Stammerjohn
10 Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica	174	(22)
Kathleen A. Welch, W. Berry Lyons, Diane M. McKnight, Peter T. Doran, Andrew G. Fountain, Diana Wall, Chris Jaros, Thomas Nylen, and Clive Howard-Williams
The Quasi-Quíntennial Timescale--Synthesis	196	(17)
Raymond C. Smith, Xiaojun Yuan, Jiping Liu, Douglas G. Martinson, and Sharon E. Stammerjohn
11 Interdecadal-Scale Variability: An Assessment of LTER Climate Data	213	(13)
Maurice J. McHugh and Douglas G. Goodin
12 A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska	226	(25)
Glenn Patrick Juday, Valerie Barber, Scott Rupp, John Zasada, and Martin Wilmking
13 Decadal Climate Variation and Coho Salmon Catch	251	(11)
David Greenland
14 Decadal and Century-Long Changes in Storminess at Long-Term Ecological Research Lites	262	(24)
Bruce P. Hayden and Nils R. Hayden
15 Multidecadal Drought Cycles in South-Central New Mexico: Patterns and Consequences	286	(22)
Bruce T. Milne, Douglas I. Moore, Julio L. Betancourt, James A. Parks, Thomas W. Swetnam, Robert R. Parmenter, and William T. Pockman
The Interdecadal Timescale-Synthesis	308	(9)
Douglas G. Goodin and Maurice J. McHugh
IV Century to Millennial Timescale
Introductory Overview	317	(2)
Raymond C. Smith and Douglas G. Goodin
16 Century- to Millennial-Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response in Taylor Valley, Antarctica	319	(22)
Andrew G. Fountain and W. Berry Lyons
17 Millennial-Scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the Jornada LTER Site	341	(29)
H. Curtis Monger
18 Millennial and Century Climate Changes in the Colorado Alpine	370	(14)
Scott Elias
Century to Millennial Timescale-Synthesis	384	(7)
Douglas G. Goodin and Raymond C. Smith
V Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Selected LTER Sites at Multiple Timescales
Introductory Overview	391	(2)
David Greenland and Douglas G. Goodin
19 Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Site	393	(18)
David Greenland, Frederick Bierlmaier, Mark Harmon, Julia Jones, Arthur McKee, Joseph Means, Frederick J. Swanson, and Cathy Whitlock
20 Climate Variability in Tallgrass Prairie at Multiple Timescales: Konza Prairie Biological Station	411	(14)
Douglas G. Goodin, Philip A. Fay, and Maurice J. McHugh
21 Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response-Synthesis	425	(26)
David Greenland, Douglas G. Goodin, Raymond C. Smith, and Frederick J. Swanson
Index	451