Proposal: LTREB: Vernal Pools in the New England Landscape--Patterns in Habitat and Biota Over Space and Time
- HF-ID: HF2002-01
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Foster, D.R.
- Colburn, E.A.
- Date: 2001 to 2007
- Location: Cape Cod MA
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- NSF Proposal #0212894 (Harvard University)/MET Proposal/Project Description/Budget Plan/declined April 22, 2002. 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: habitats, invertebrates, landscape, wetlands
- Abstract:
- Relationships between short- and long-term changes in physical factors, biotic interactions, and species' distributions remain a key focus of ecological investigation. Vernal pools are small, shallow, seasonally flooded, fishless forest ponds that provide breeding habitat for forest amphibians and support diverse invertebrate faunas. They are tightly coupled to surrounding uplands through transport of materials and movement of animals.
- Short- and long-term variations in pool water levels and flooding duration are dramatic and may be cyclic. Species' distributions in pools are hypothesized to reflect integrated responses to hydrology and other pool-specific physical factors, current watershed conditions, and historic influences. Long-term studies of vernal pools provide an opportunity to examine the influence of climate, hydrology, and landscape-scale factors on the distributions and abundances of aquatic organisms.
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