Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response in Long-Term Ecological Research Sites

• PrefacePart I1: An Introduction to Climate VariabilityPart II Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response on Different Time-Scales Short Term Climatic EventsShort-Term Climatic Events: Introductory Overview2: Hurricanes Impacts on Temperate and Tropical Forests3: Drought Impacts on Tree Growth and Mortality of Southern Appalachian Forests4: Climate Variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing Drought Severity Patterns5: Climate Forcing at the Arctic LTER SiteShort-Term Climatic Events-SynthesisThe Quasi-Quintennial Time ScaleIntroductory Overview6: An LTER Network Overview and Introduction of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic signal and response7: The Climate of the Central Arizona and Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CALPTER) Site and links to ENSO8: Watershed Hydrological and Chemical Responses to Precipitation Variability in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico9: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response of the Marine Ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region10: Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, AntarcticaSynthesis: The Quasi-Quintennial Time Scale Climate Variability and Ecological ResponseThe Inter-Decadal Time ScaleIntroductory Overview11: Interdecadal Scale Variability: An Assessment of LTER Climate Data12: A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska13: Decadal Climate Variation and Coho Salmon Catch14: Decadal and Century-long Changes in Storminess at LTER Sites15: Mulit-Decadal Drought Cycles in South-central New Mexico: Patterns and ConsequencesDecadal-Scale Climate Variability and ecosystem response at LTER SitesCentury to Millennial ScaleThe Century to Millennial Scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at LTER Sites16: Century to Millennial Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response in Taylor Valley, Antarctica17: Millennial-scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the Jornada LTER18: Millennial and Century Climate Changes in the Colorado AlpinePart III Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at selected LTER Sites Over Multiple Time ScalesCross Time-Scale Climatic Events and Ecosystem Responses19: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Site20: Climate Variability in Tallgrass Prairie at Multiple Time Scales: Konza Prairie Biological StationPart IV21: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response-An Overview

"This timely and well-done work will be a milestone in LTER research. It generates a sense of anticipation for the progress in understanding the interactions between climate and ecosystem response the LTER program will make during its next 20 years."--American Meteorological Society