Browsing by Author "Laughlin, Daniel C."
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Accuracy assessment of land surface temperature retrievals from Landsat 7 ETM + in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica using iButton temperature loggers and weather station data
(Springer, 2013)The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are the largest snow/ice-free regions on this vast continent, comprising 1 % of the land mass. Due to harsh environmental conditions, the valleys are bereft of any vegetation. Land ... -
Advances in modeling trait-based plant community assembly
(Elsevier, 2013-10)In this review, we examine two new trait-based models of community assembly that predict the relative abundance of species from a regional species pool. The models use fundamentally different mathematical approaches and ... -
Applying trait-based models to achieve functional targets for theory-driven ecological restoration
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Manipulating community assemblages to achieve functional targets is a key component of restoring degraded ecosystems. The response-and-effect trait framework provides a conceptual foundation for translating restoration ... -
Biotic interactions are an unexpected yet critical control on the complexity of an abiotically driven polar ecosystem.
(2019)Abiotic and biotic factors control ecosystem biodiversity, but their relative contributions remain unclear. The ultraoligotrophic ecosystem of the Antarctic Dry Valleys, a simple yet highly heterogeneous ecosystem, is a ... -
Conservative leaf economic traits correlate with fast growth of genotypes of a foundation riparian species near the thermal maximum extent of its geographic range
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Plant functional traits involved in carbon and water acquisition are likely to be adaptive across the range of a species if the availability of these resources varies across this range and are limiting to growth or fitness. ...
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Urban Restoration Ecology: Investigating environmental change, ecological function, and enrichment planting
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Ecosystems worldwide are being degraded and destroyed by human actions on an unprecedented level. This continues despite growing evidence that intact, functioning ecosystems are critical to human health and well-being. The ... -
Temporal variability in the water quality of a deep temperate oligotrophic lake
(University of Waikato, 2016)Lakes change over time in response to climate and catchment disturbance, even in the absence of anthropogenic stressors. This temporal change may impact the setting of reference conditions for lakes. Many sources of ... -
Functional trait variation along a hydrological gradient and trait-based predictions of the composition of a wetland plant community
(University of Waikato, 2016)Predicting the assembly of plant communities is considered the Holy Grail of functional ecology and has never been more important as we head into an era of environmental change. Studying plant functional traits provides ... -
Carbon inputs to soil from roots of two contrasting pasture swards
(University of Waikato, 2016)The soil carbon (C) pool is one of the largest pools of C in the terrestrial environment. Soil management strategies to increase soil C are of interest globally to reduce atmospheric CO₂ concentrations which are contributing ... -
Interactions between soil fertility and climate drive variation in functional traits in New Zealand forests.
(University of Waikato, 2015)Plant functional traits provide a mechanistic approach to understanding the processes of environmental filtering and community assembly. Variation along environmental gradients results in changes in the adaptive values of ...
