U.S. LTER Network  Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge  near Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Institutional affiliations: University of New Mexico; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Principal biome/main communities: Multiple--intersection of subalpine mixed-conifer forest/meadow, riparian cottonwood forest, dry mountainland, grassland, cold desert, hot desert. Conifer savanna; creosote bush; desert grassland; mesquite and sand dunes; Great Basin shrub and shortgrass steppes; tallgrass swales; riparian communities. 

Research topics: Landscape and organism population dynamics in a biome tension zone; semiarid watershed ecology; climate change; biospheric/atmospheric interactions; paleobotany/archaeology; microbial role in gas flux; and control of landscape heterogeneity; scale effects on spatial and temporal variability. 

Site Coordinates:   34.3, -106.8 

Site Principal Investigator

 
JAMES R. GOSZ 
University of New Mexico
Department of Biology 
Albuquerque, NM 87131 
505/277-5356 
jgosz@LTERnet.edu
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