by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Global Change, Plant Ecology, Research, SMER, Soils
Coastal sage scrub (CSS) is a semi-arid shrub-dominated ecosystem found in southern California. CSS has been reduced to a tiny fraction of its original extent due to urbanization, conversion to agriculture and degradation by invasive exotic annual plant species. The...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Global Change, Plant Ecology, Research, SMER, Soils
We recently completed an NSF-funded rainfall manipulation experiment at Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve. The experiment is investigation the interactive effects of plant functional type (native shrubs vs. exotic annual species) and altered rainfall. This is a...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Global Change, Research, Sky Oaks, Soils
In collaboration with the Global Change Research Group (GCRG) and Cheryl Kuske at LANL, we studied the effects of free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) on soil fungal communities in a chaparral ecosystem. We found that elevated CO2 increased root production, which led to an...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Plant Ecology, Research, SMER
Former SDSU doctoral student, Francis Bozzolo, published part of his dissertation in Plant and Soil. Part of the motivation for this study was that the dominant shrubs of Coastal Sage Scrub ecosystems are generally clumped in patches, as in the photo above. Do they...
by pbryant | Jun 11, 2014 | Plant Ecology, Research, SMER
Coordination of stem and leaf hydraulic conductance in southern California shrubs: a test of the hydraulic segmentation hypothesis New Phytologist (2014) doi: 10.1111/nph.12850 Alexandria L. Pivovaroff1, Lawren Sack2 and Louis S. Santiago1 1Department of Botany and...
by pbryant | Sep 8, 2012 | Community, Research, Sky Oaks
Online images can viewed here: http://anr.ucsd.edu/cameras/SkyOaksJR.html
