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HF349

Scaling Sarracenia in North America 1900-2100

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Overview

• Lead: Aaron Ellison, Nicholas Gotelli
• Investigators: Joseph Wonsil
• Contact: Information Manager
• Start date: 1900
• End date: 2100
• Status: complete
• Location: North America
• Latitude: 30 to 50 degrees
• Longitude: -135 to -60 degrees
• Elevation: 0 to 4000 meter
• Datum: WGS84
• Taxa: Sarracenia purpurea, Sarracenia spp. (pitcher plants)
• Release date: 2023
• Language: English
• EML file: knb-lter-hfr.349.4
• DOI: digital object identifier
• EDI: data package
• DataONE: data package
• Related links:
• Nitrogen Cycling Dynamics in Sarracenia Purpurea at Harvard Forest 2004-2005
• Allochthonous Nutrients in the Sarracenia Microecosystem at Harvard Forest 2005-2007
• Effects of Prey Availability on Sarracenia Physiology at Harvard Forest 2005
• Prey Capture by Carnivorous Plants Worldwide 1923-2007
• Construction Costs of Carnivorous and Non-Carnivorous Plants at Harvard Forest 2006-2008
• Sarracenia Purpurea Prey Capture at Harvard Forest 2008
• Organic and Inorganic Nitrogen Uptake by Sarracenia Purpurea at Harvard Forest and Fort Albany ON 2007
• Moths, Ants and Pitcher Plants in Bogs at Harvard Forest and Belchertown MA 2007-2013
• Ecophysiology of Carnivorous Plants Worldwide 1980-2011
• Decomposition Dynamics in the Sarracenia Purpurea Microecosystem at Harvard Forest 2010
• Food Web of Sarracenia Purpurea in United States and Canada since 1999
• Demography of Sarracenia Purpurea in Massachusetts and Vermont since 1997
• Thresholds and Tipping Points in a Sarracenia Microecosystem at Harvard Forest since 2012
• Modeling Foundation Species in Food Webs
• Metaproteomic Analysis of Sarracenia Purpurea Pitcher Fluid at Harvard Forest 2012-2017
• Leaf Traits of Darlingtonia Californica in Oregon and California 2001
• Effect of Prey Availability on Sarracenia Purpurea Stoichiometry at Belvidere Bog, Vermont 2002
• Stoichiometry of Bogs and Bog Plants in Massachusetts and Vermont 2002
• Nitrogen Deposition and Pitcher Plant Morphology in Massachusetts and Vermont 1998-1999
• Seed Dispersal and Seedling Establishment of Sarracenia Purpurea at Hawley Bog, MA 1998-1999
• Species Distribution Modeling of Carnivorous Plants Worldwide
• Hysteresis of the Sarracenia Purpurea Microecosystem in Northern Vermont 2015-2016
• Synthesis of Sarracenia Research in North America 1982-2018
• Study type: long-term measurement, short-term measurement, historical, modeling
• Research topic: conservation and management; ecological informatics and modelling; historical and retrospective studies; physiological ecology, population dynamics and species interactions
• LTER core area: primary production, population studies, organic matter movement, mineral cycling, disturbance patterns
• Keywords: carnivorous plants, demography, food webs, modeling, nutrients, population dynamics, trophic structure
• Abstract:

  Scaling in Ecology with a Model System synthesizes central theories from ecology, biogeography, and macroecology through the lens of scale and scaling across spatiotemporal extents and grains, levels of biological organization, and with dimensionless ratios. In this book, we link 25 years of detailed natural history observations and laboratory and field experiments on the “Sarracenia microecosystem” (the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, and its associated food web of microbes and macrobes) with new models and analyses to generate novel insights into ecophysiology and stoichiometry; demography and species distribution models; food webs and trophic dynamics; and tipping points and regime shifts.

  Our work addresses the Sarracenia microecosystem at a hierarchy of spatial scales: individual pitchers within plants, plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes, all of which can be treated as replicate “island” ecosystems that can be studied throughout the United States east of the Mississippi River and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Through integrated studies of its proteomics, physiology, population dynamics, community ecology, and ecosystem processes, the Sarracenia microecosystem has emerged as a model system for experimental ecology. Our synthetic work clearly illustrates that working with the Sarracenia microecosystem can yield new results and understanding of the importance of ecosystem-wide disturbances and anthropogenically-driven environmental and climatic change. They also show that research with the experimentally tractable Sarracenia microecosystem proceeds much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, and streams that are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate.

• Methods:

  Data were synthesized from a variety of sources and tabulated, graphed, and analyzed with custom R scripts. The data, R version and libraries used for the analyses, relevant drivers, and the operating system under which all were compiled and run have been encapsulated into a Docker container (virtual machine). The container is compressed in the file hf349-01-scaling-sarracenia.tar.gz. Execution of the container using a computer onto which Docker has been installed will reproduce all of the tables, figures, and analyses in the book Scaling in Ecology with a Model System(Ellison and Gotelli, 2021). The file hf349-02-R-container-instruction.pdf includes detailed instructions for extracting the container, installing Docker, recreating the virtual machine, and executing the code. We suggest renaming hf349-01-scaling-sarracenia.tar.gz to scaling-sarracenia.tar.gz before following these instructions.

• Organization: Harvard Forest. 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA. Phone (978) 724-3302. Fax (978) 724-3595.

• Project: The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts. (ROR).

• Funding: National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.

• Use: This dataset is released to the public under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (No Rights Reserved). Please keep the dataset creators informed of any plans to use the dataset. Consultation with the original investigators is strongly encouraged. Publications and data products that make use of the dataset should include proper acknowledgement.

• License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0)

• Citation: Ellison A, Gotelli N. 2023. Scaling Sarracenia in North America 1900-2100. Harvard Forest Data Archive: HF349 (v.4). Environmental Data Initiative: https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/bd4771331d3ff27848382f90e566ea0a.

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hf349-01: compressed virtual machine (Docker container)

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• Format: R script
• Type: script

hf349-02: instructions for extracting and running virtual machine

• Compression: none
• Format: pdf
• Type: document