When should rain fall?: how the timing of large storms impacts arid grasslands
| dc.contributor.author | Post, Alison, author | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-09T21:52:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-09T21:52:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | For the Southwestern United States, climate change models forecast longer droughts broken by fewer, larger rainfall events. While drought has been well-studied in semi-arid grasslands, few have focused on the timing of rainfall events. Therefore, I designed a field experiment to test how the timing of a single large rain event (deluge) influences plant production and carbon cycling of the shortgrass prairie. I added a deluge to plots in either early, mid, or later summer, and tracked soil moisture, soil respiration, and growth of the dominant species. The mid-summer deluge increased plant production, and therefore carbon sequestration, the most. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | Student works | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/184800 | |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2017 Projects | |
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| dc.subject | rainfall | |
| dc.subject | precipitation | |
| dc.subject | prairie | |
| dc.subject | blue grama | |
| dc.subject | timing | |
| dc.title | When should rain fall?: how the timing of large storms impacts arid grasslands | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | 234 - Alison Kathryn Post | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | How the timing of large storms impacts arid grasslands | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type | Image | |
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