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
by pbryant | Aug 10, 2012 | Conservation, Research, SMER
F90 is the designation of one of the mountain lions radio-collared by Dr. Winston Vickers, who studies genetic isolation and habitat connectivity in populations on either side of the I-15
by pbryant | Jul 31, 2012 | Plant Ecology, Research, SMER
97th Annual ESA Meeting, Alexandria Pivovaroff