Agricultural Landscapes in Transition

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Agricultural Landscapes in Transition

• LTER SITES

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These are the six Long Term Ecological Research
Sites we will be studying
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Konza Prairie
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Coweeta
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Kellogg Biological Station
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Harvard Forest
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Shortgrass Steppe
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Central Arizona Phoenix
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What is a Biome?

• A terrestrial ecosystem, determined largely by
  climate, classified according to the predominant
  vegetation and characterized by organisms adapted
  to the particular environments

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Use a map to find out what biome each LTER Site
belongs in Go here to research http//sunsite.w
its.ac.za/eco/vol7/iss2/art7/figure1e.html
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This Land is Your LandByWoody Guthrie

• (public domain)

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Picture Resources

• Central Az-Phoenixhttp//caplter.asu.edu/
• Coweetahttp//coweeta.ecology.uga.edu/
• Konza Prairiehttp//www.konza.ksu.edu/
• Kellogg Biological Stationhttp//lter.kbs.msu.edu
  /
• Harvard Foresthttp//harvardforest.fas.harvard.ed
  u/
• Shortgrass steppehttp//sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/

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Coweeta

• www.arches.uga.edu/ jgreenw/coweeta.JPG
• http//www.dur.ac.uk/geolsci.www/research/environ
  /images/coweeta.jpg

http//www.ces.clemson.edu/hydro/FieldCamp/FCsetti
ngs/COWEETA/99Coweeta-shed.jpg
http//128.192.18.3/webdocs/album/html/images/misc
2/Coweeta.GIF
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Konza Prairie

• http//www.strecker-nelsongallery.com/Artists_nu/n
  edresky/NedreskySlideShow/images/Konza20Prairie2
  0in20late20fall_jpg.jpg
• http//www.naturalkansas.org/images/konza_view.jpg
  

http//www.michaelforsberg.com/portfolios/photo/00
314.jpg
http//www.weru.ksu.edu/symposium/images/konzat2.g
if
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Kellogg Biological Station

• http//www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/images/lter_networ
  k/KBS/KBS_1990/KBS_fields_1995.jpg

http//www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc020408/images/1Ch
aseBiodivers.jpg
http//www.landandwater.com/features/vol46no2/vol4
6no2_2A.jpg
http//www.glrc.org/story_images/ag-bio.jpg
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Shortgrass Steppe

• http//sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/About/PhotoGallery/Ca
  ttleOnSGSPhoto.jpg

http//sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/About/PhotoGallery/Co
wOnSGSPhoto.jpg
http//sgs.cnr.colostate.edu/About/SiteDescription
/StDscrptFullMoonPhoto.jpg
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Harvard Forest

• http//www.ma.nrcs.usda.gov/neasoils/images/nefsc1
  0.jpg

http//www.ldeo.columbia.edu/adk/dis/carbon/HF.ca
rbon.jpg
http//al.umces.edu/currie/lysimete.jpg
http//pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/american_west
/images/bluebells20in20forest.jpg
http//www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Education/Curriculu
m/graphics/diaramc.jpg