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Faculty Rob Cole
Alison Styring Undergraduate Students: Kyle Galloway Pat Babbin Josh Brann Jordan Erickson Justin Kirch Alexandra Kazakova Don Loft Margaret Pryor IES 2006/7 (46 students)
MES Students: Jora Rehm-Lorber (Avian Communities and Forest Structure) Lindsy A. Wright (Variation in Soil CO2 Efflux) Historic Photos (1939) (Courtesy of C. Adair)
Recent Photos
Taken south of each
plot during Summer 2006
Data (coming soon)
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New!Student poster the 2008 South Sound Science Symposium (S4)
Kazakova, AN, JL Kirsch, and DG Fischer. 2008. Carbon Storage and Productivity Estimates in a Second-Growth Forest Long-term Ecological Research In Diverse Lowland Puget Sound Forests;This project is a long-term research effort involving students and faculty
conducting research on patterns and process in a 1000 acre lowland puget
sound second-growth rainforest at the Evergreen State College. Major changes
are expected and have already occurred in these lowland Puget sound ecosystems
associated with ecological and anthropogenic factors. Our efforts are centered on 50
intensively-studied long-term
monitoring plots where we are measuring biological diversity, development, growth, and decay of
trees, snags, sub-canopy vegetation, and down-woody debris. These data allow
us to have a quantitative baseline estimate for carbon stocks and forest
structure in our lowland Puget Sound forests, as well as develop and ask
interesting questions related to forest structure and diversity. Over-time,
these data will allow us to address how forests change, and how climate
change is affecting ecosystems. We have recently joined with the
canopy lab to work to establish a network of long-term canopy research
sites along with our existing permanent plot network . We are interested in
collaboration with other labs. Please contact us about data sharing and
joint projects.
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