DOE Program for Ecosystem Research

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science

Program for Ecosystem Research

Locations of Experimental Research

Map of current projects

Experimental projects by state (or province)

The list below indicates the location of the program's ongoing experimental research projects (not the location of funded institutions). In addition, a theoretical modeling study is being conducted in Tennessee.

Arizona

Can soil genomics predict the impact of precipitation on nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from soil?

British Columbia, Canada

Predicting the impacts of climatic change on animal distributions: the importance of local adaptation and species' traits

California

Physiological, demographic, competitive, and biogeochemical controls on the response of California's ecosystems to environmental change

Threshold responses to interacting global changes in a California grassland ecosystem

Predicting the impacts of climatic change on animal distributions: the importance of local adaptation and species' traits

An annual grassland mesocosm exploration of scaling from genomes to ecosystems

Colorado

Subalpine and alpine species range shifts with climatic change: temperature and soil moisture manipulations to test species and population responses

Florida

The response of a seasonal ectotherm (Allenemobius socius) to global warming

Kansas

Bridging the divide: linking genomics to ecosystem responses to climatic change

Illinois

Genomic regulation of the response of an agroecosystem to elements of global change

Interactive effects of elevated carbon dioxide and ozone on the mycorrhizal symbiosis

Indiana

Predicting the impacts of climatic change on animal distributions: the importance of local adaptation and species' traits

Manitoba, Canada

Effects of warming on the structure and functioning of a boreal black spruce forest

Massachusetts

Heterotrophic soil respiration in warming experiments: using microbial indicators to partition contributions from labile and recalcitrant soil organic matter

Impacts of elevated temperature on ant species, communities, and ecological roles in two temperate forests in eastern North America

Effects of warming on tree species' recruitment in deciduous forests of the eastern United States

Minnesota

Boreal ecotone warming experiment

Oregon

Predicting the impacts of climatic change on animal distributions: the importance of local adaptation and species' traits

Effect of asymmetric versus symmetric warming on grassland mesocosms

New Mexico

Hydraulic mechanisms of survival and mortality during drought in pinyon-juniper woodlands of the southwestern United States

North Carolina

Impacts of elevated temperature on ant species, communities, and ecological roles in two temperate forests in eastern North America

Effects of warming on tree species' recruitment in deciduous forests of the eastern United States

Tennessee

Community and ecosystem response to global change: interactive effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide, surface temperature, and soil moisture

HERMES: hierarchical experimental responses at macromolecular to ecosystem scales

Texas

The interaction of carbon and water availability along a subambient to elevated CO2 gradient

Utah

Climatic change in arid lands: effects on soil biota and ecosystem processes

Washington

Predicting the impacts of climatic change on animal distributions: the importance of local adaptation and species' traits

Wisconsin (all at FACE site)

Impacts of elevated CO2 and O3, alone and in combination, on the structure and functioning of a northern hardwood forest ecosystem

Interactive effects of elevated carbon dioxide and ozone on the mycorrhizal symbiosis

Effects of elevated CO2 and O3 on insect-mediated ecosystem processes in a northern deciduous forest

Ecosystem response to elevated carbon dioxide and ozone is regulated by plant-microbe interactions in soil