UCI - San Joaquin Marsh Reserve

14 Oct, 01 AM - 14 Oct, 05 AM

This research will examine how the length between natural disturbance events affects arthropod and plant community assemblages. It will provide empirical evidence of a multi-trophic response to natural disturbance which can be useful in predicting how communities will respond to more frequent disturbance events that may result from more variable weather patterns associated with climate change. As a graduate student working in community ecology, this project will allow me to examine the mechanisms by which a disturbance acts to modify the structure of a community over time. Understanding these mechanisms will give insight into which trophic levels are first impacted and how that impact affects other trophic levels. Over a long enough survey period, I can also examine differences in response by the frequently disturbed and rarely disturbed communities to other infrequent disturbances (mainly storm events). These perturbations will provide a chance to see how the community returns to equilibrium, and whether it returns to the same community assemblages, or does not reach equilibrium before the community is reflooded the next year.

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Under Project # 24313 | Research

A comparison of temporary and permanent terrestrial arthropod-plant communities

graduate_student - University of California, Los Angeles

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