Long-Term Ecological Research

This chapter is a contribution of the Jornada Long-Term Ecological Research Program II supported by the National Science Foundation Grant BSR 88-11160. 

Fig. 1. Study area is the Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Site and Biological Station, a native tallgrass prairie.

Sinsabaugh, R. L., M. J. Klug, H. P. Collins, P. E. Yeager, and S.,0. Peterson. 1999. Characterizing soil microbial communities. In Standard Soil Methods for Long-term Ecological Research (G. P. Robertson, D. C. Coleman, C. S. Bledsoe, and P. Sollins, Eds.), pp. 318-348. Oxford University Press, New York. 

Harmon, M. E., Nadelhoffer, K. J., and Blair, J. M. (1999). Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover, and stores in plant litter. In Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological Research. Robertson, G. R, Bledsoe, C. S., Coleman, D. C., and Sollins, R, eds., Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 202-240. 

The mean annual temperature and precipitation are 26.6°C and 2680 mm, respectively. In the park a research plot of 8 ha (200 X 400 m) was set up under auspices of the Canopy Biology Program in Sarawak (CBPS). The CBPS was initiated in the international co-operative project, Long-term Ecological Research Project at Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak by Forest Department Sarawak Harvard University, USA Ehime University, Osaka City University, Kyoto University and several other Japanese universities in 1992 (Inoue and Hamid, 1995). 

Hirai, H., Matsumura, H., Hirotani, H., Sakurai, K., 1995. Soils and the distribution of Dryobalanops aromatica and D. lanceolata in mixed dipterocarp forest - a case study at Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. In Lee, H.S., Ashton, P.S., Ogino, K. (Eds.), Long Term Ecological Research of Tropical Rain Forest in Sarawak II-3. pp. 92-99. 

The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is a long-term ecological research site established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service in the White Mountains of New Hampshire to investigate the structure and function of forest and aquatic ecosystems, and their response to disturbance (Likens and Bormann 1995 Groffman et al. 2004). Hubbard Brook was the site where acidic deposition was first reported in North America (Likens et al. 1972). Hubbard Brook receives elevated inputs of acidic deposition and the forest ecosystem is very sensitive to these inputs. There have been long-term measurements and studies of acidic deposition and its effects on forests and streams at Hubbard Brook (Likens et al. 1996 Driscoll et al. 2001). 

Westing, A.H., 1984. Herbicides in war past and present. In Westing, A H. (Ed ), Herbicides in War The Long-Term Ecological and Human Consequences Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Taylor and Francis, London and Philadelphia, PA, pp. 3-24. 

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