Cherry Partners with Starr and Staudhammer Labs on New Longleaf Pine Savanna Paper

Former UA grad student and Starr lab member, Dr. Susi Wiesner, is lead author on a new paper out today in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. The paper details the effects of extreme temperature events (i.e., heat waves and freezes) on metabolic energy and entropy production in three longleaf pine savannas spanning a soil moisture gradient. Wiesner et al. found that energy reserves were built during periods of low precipitation and mild temperatures and that anthropogenic disturbances, like soil tillage, can slow recovery following temperature extremes. 

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