At the beginning of June, Andrew and Jacob spent 3 days at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, home of the renowned SEV LTER site, installing cameras in the creosote biome plots of the MVE experiment. REU Raul Valencia helped out with the installation. Jacob, an incoming PhD student in Biological Sciences, and NAU Presidential Fellowship awardee, will be using data from these cameras, and cameras in the blue and black grama biome plots of the MVE experiment, for his thesis research. He will test hypotheses about relationships between precipitation and water availability, ecosystem productivity, and plant phenology. This work is supported by Andrew’s recent grant from NSF, DEB-2142144.
