2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Animal Behavior

Population dynamics and mortality tradeoffs of bold and shy foraging: A field study with sunfish

Melissa Kjelvik — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Poster Number:

396

Presenter/Primary Author:

Melissa Kjelvik

Co-Authors:

Gary Mittelbach

Co-Authors:

Laurel Lindemann

Student Poster:

Yes

Using GIS to analyze animal behavior in space

Tom Adam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:41:53 +0000

Poster Number:

218

Presenter/Primary Author:

Tom Adam

This study was conducted as part of a larger effort to look at potential indirect effects of cleaner fish on coral reefs. Cleaners are likely to have indirect effects on the reefs they occupy because they attract and concentrate a wide variety of different client fish to their territories. While client fish visit cleaner stations in order to have ectoparasites removed by the cleaner, they are also involved in other activities (such as feeding) during their visits, and these activities can affect the fish, algae, corals, and other invertebrates that inhabit cleaner stations.

Student Poster:

Yes

Unexpected effects of invertebrate consumers in the understory of a rainforest

Chelse Prather — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:59:50 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

Chelse Prather

Co-Authors:

Gary E. Belovsky

In temperate systems, invertebrate consumers have known impacts to ecosystem processes, but in tropical ecology, it is assumed that only plant and microbes affect these processes. This study investigated what impacts common folivores (walking sticks) and detritivores (litter snails) have on decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity in the understory of the Luquillo rainforest (LUQ). To test these effects, we started an enclosure experiment with consumers both present and absent in 2005.

Student Poster:

Yes

The no-dead ends LTER information website

Marshall White — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:31:22 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

no-dead-endsReport1.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Inigo San Gil

Co-organizer(s):

Marshall White

Video:

First Hour:
Motivation - An integral vision for information management and information delivery

Second Hour:

Lively demo of the implementation -- four way interactions with the workgroup attendants.

This workshop has three goals:

1) Inform interested participants about a new way to organize the LTER site information. We offer the public a view of the information that has no dead-ends, that is, all the content is related, and each website view offers related contextual content, including data, personnel, metadata, projects, and the like.

2) Receive feedback

3) Recruit adopters and developers

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Hobbs

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Inigo San Gil

Marshall White

Hap Garritt

Eda Melendez-Colom

Sarah Barbrow

James Laundre

Hope Humphries

Dan Bahauddin

David Blankman

Mike Rugge

Additional Participants:

Kim Yamgsum (KLTER)

Clarisse Hart (HFR)

Derik Barseghian (NCEAS)

Kyle Kwaiser (UMBS)

David Huber (CAP)