Biocomplexity in the Environment: Emergent Properties of Alluvial River Flood Plains

The conceptual foundation of this multi-disciplinary project is that river flood plains are regional centers of ecological organization. This system is dependent on interactions among dynamic, nonlinear physical and biological processes linking water, heat and materials (biota, sediment, plant-growth nutrients) flux and retention to fluvial landscape change. (details)

Food-web Ecology of Glacial Lakes Invaded by non-native Mysids and Lake Trout

Water quality in Flathead Lake has been monitored continually since 1977 by The Flathead Lake Biological Station.  The purpose is to demonstrate long-term responses of the lake ecosystem to environmental change. (details)

Salmon River Ecology: An Observatory Network in Kamchatka (Russia), Alaska and British Columbia

The goal of this project is to fully describe biodiversity and bioproductivity, as controlled by natural and cultural processes, of a suite of pristine Pacific salmon river ecosystems. We are particularly interested in precise determination of ecological processes and responses and biophysical feedbacks mediated by marine nutrient subsidies from anadromous fishes within the differing environmental settings of the rivers.(details)

Of Rodents and Grizzly Bears: Influences of Digging by Animals on Plant Distributions and Soil Nutrient Cycling

This study investigates the possibility that grizzly bears and rodents determine plant distribution and abundance in subalpine meadows of the Northern Rocky Mountains.