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Reciprocal Transplant Experiment in a Coastal Forest, Nassawadox, VA
In the Mid-Atlantic region, accelerated sea-level rise is provoking rapid shifts in many coastal areas. As salt water intrusion occurs, tidal wetland species are colonizing space opened up by upland dieback and can even invade coastal forest understory prior to said dieback. One such species is the high marsh grass Spartina patens, which is known to exhibit divergent growth forms under the differing conditions of marsh, dune, and swale habitats. It is now colonizing the understory of coastal pine forests experiencing salt water intrusion. I established plots at three sites on the Delmarva peninsula in adjacent marsh and forest areas and conducted a reciprocal transplant experiment to address the following questions: a) How do environmental conditions for S. patens differ between marsh and forest habitats? b) How do S. patens traits differ between these habitats and are these differences a product of plasticity? Our results showed lower salinity and light availability in the forest which corresponded to greater height and leaf area of S. patens plants. Though some traits showed an effect of their habitat of origin, many functional traits exhibited strong phenotypic plasticity in response to environment. This plasticity may prove crucial to the species' resilience to future change.
Mass per tiller, nitrogen concentration, stable isotope ratios for carbon and nitrogen from the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment along a latitudinal gradient in interior Alaska collected in July, 2011
In 1980-1982, six transplant gardens were established along a latitudinal gradient in interior Alaska from Eagle Creek, AK in the south to Prudhoe Bay, AK in the north. Three sites, Toolik Lake (TL), Sagwon (SAG), and Prudhoe Bay (PB) are north of the continental divide and the remaining three, Eagle Creek (EC), No Name Creek (NN), and Coldfoot (CF), are south of the continental divide. Each garden consisted of 10 individual Eriophorum vaginatum tussocks transplanted back to their home-site, as well as 10 individuals from each of the other transplant sites. The gardens were harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, mass per tiller, nitrogen concentration, and stable isotope ratios for Carbon and Nitrogen.
Deschampsia biomass, soil microbes and endophyte root colonization for snowmelt and microbial innoculation transplant experiment in the Green Lakes Valley, 2015-2018
As organisms shift their geographic distributions in response to climate change, biotic interactions have emerged as an important factor driving the rate and success of range expansions. Plant-microbe interactions are an understudied but potentially important factor governing plant range shifts. We studied the distribution and function of microbes present in high-elevation unvegetated soils, areas that plants are colonizing as climate warms, snow melts earlier and the summer growing season lengthens. Using a manipulative snowpack and microbial inoculation transplant experiment, we tested the hypothesis that growing season length and microbial community composition interact to control plant elevational range shifts. We predicted that a lengthening growing season combined with dispersal to patches of soils with more mutualistic microbes and fewer pathogenic microbes would facilitate plant survival and growth in previously unvegetated areas. We identified negative effects on survival of the common alpine bunchgrass Deschampsia cespitosa in both short and long growing seasons, suggesting an optimal growing season length for plant survival in this system that balances time for growth with soil moisture levels. Importantly, growing season length and microbes interacted to affect plant survival and growth, such that microbial community composition increased in importance in suboptimal growing season lengths. Further, plants grown with microbes from unvegetated soils grew as well or better than plants grown with microbes from vegetated soils. These results suggest that the rate and spatial extent of plant colonization of unvegetated soils in mountainous areas experiencing climate change could depend on both growing season length and soil microbial community composition, with microbes potentially playing more important roles as growing seasons lengthen.
Alpine species transplant experiment within the sensor network, 2019 - 2021.
Weekly monitoring of survival and other fitness traits of 11 transplanted alpine species in addition to, non-transplanted, native, individuals. Individuals were monitored from early June to the end of August for survival and other fitness traits. Beginning in early July individuals from each species were transplanted to grids that were established near existing soil moisture sensors. Individuals were tracked until all had senesced however senescence was only indicated in transplants if it was irregular from native individuals.
Trollius transplant performance in the increased temperature, N and snowpack experiment, 2021 - ongoing.
This range expansion experiment was installed in the summer of 2021. We experimentally simulated the range expansion of a subalpine buttercup, Trollius albiflorus, by transplanting six adults into the west edge of the ITEX global change experimental plots, for a total of 288 transplants. To parse apart abiotic and biotic drivers on range expansion, we manipulated half the transplants to ‘reduce below-ground biotic interactions’ using PVC pipe vs ‘control’ biotic conditions where below-ground interactions we left intact. To record above-ground interactions, in 2022-2024 we recorded neighborhood percent cover at the species-level around each Trollius albiflorus transplant using a 10 cm circular hoop. In 2023 and 2024, we quantified soil conditions surrounding each transplant by recording soil moisture (%VWC) and soil temperature (Celsius).
Arthropod species composition in the turf transplant experiment, 2024 - ongoing.
The Turf Transplant Experiment was set up in the summer of 2024. Paired experimental sites were established in two tundra community types - dry meadow and moist meadow - with one site of each community type pair in a lower elevation/warmer area and one site in a higher elevation/cooler area. Subplot turfs (25 cm^2) were transplanted (1) between sites of the same community type at different elevations/temperatures, (2) between plots within the same site or (3) left in place as non-transplant controls. This data package contains measurements of arthropods.
Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species (transplant and herbivore exclusion experiment and demographic data from natural populations), West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA 2015-2018
Though rarely experimentally tested, biotic interactions have long been hypothesized to limit low-elevation range boundaries of species. We tested the effects of herbivory on three alpine-restricted plant species by transplanting plants below (novel), at the edge (limit), or in the center (core) of their current elevational range and factorially fencing-out above- and belowground mammals in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA from 2015-2018. Herbivore damage was greater in range limit and novel habitats than in range cores. Exclosures increased plant biomass and reproduction more in novel habitats than in range cores, suggesting demographic costs of novel interactions with herbivores. We then used demographic models to project population growth rates, which increased 5-20% more under herbivore exclosure at range limit and novel sites than in core habitats. Our results identify mammalian herbivores as key drivers of the low-elevation range limits of alpine plants and indicate that upward encroachment of herbivores could trigger local extinctions by depressing plant population growth.
Tiller size measured on intact shoots in 1983 for the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment
These data were collected in August 1983 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, the number of green leaves, and the length of the longest leaf.
Tiller size measured on intact shoots in 1993 for the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment
These data were collected in July 1993 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, the number of green leaves, and the length of the longest leaf.
Tiller size measured on intact shoots in 2010 for the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment
These data were collected in July 2010 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, the number of old leaves, the number of new leaves, and the length of the longest two leaves.
Tussock survival from 1980 through 2010 for the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment
These data were collected in July 2010 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, and whether the tussocks were alive in 1983,1993,2009, and 2010.
Somatal length and density in 2010 for the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment
These data were collected in July 2010 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, length and density of stomata, and the temperature of tussocks.
Temperature response of dark respiration from the 1980-82 Eriophorum vaginatum reciprocal transplant experiment along Dalton Highway, Alaska.
These data were collected in July 2011 for tussocks transplanted in 1980-82 in a reciprocal transplant experiment and harvested in 2011. Important variables are garden name, source population, and dark respiration.
Murphy Dome: Moss (Hylocomium splendens) biomass results from a moss transplant and leaf litter manipulation experiment in three pairs of adjacent black spruce and birchs stands.
This dataset contains moss (Hylocomium splendens) growth from individual moss shoots within moss transplants in black spruce and paper birch stands. 10 mosses were marked with PVC beads in June 2013 and then each moss segment was measured in the field in June and September of 2013, 2014 and June and August 2015. All samples were harvested in 2015 and their dry weights were calculated. Moss biomass from other time periods were estimated using allometric equations. The data was collected in three blocks (A, B, and C) of adjacent black spruce and paper birch stands at Murphy Dome (access via Cache Creek road).
Murphy Dome: Covariates measured on the sampling units of moss (Hylocomium splendens) from a moss transplant and leaf litter manipulation experiment in three pairs of adjacent black spruce and birchs stands. This data is associated to the file MD_MossBiomass_2013-2015.xlsx
This data contains sampling unit level variables associated with the moss measurements from MD_MossBiomass_2013-2015.txt. It include the percent cover of leaf litter through time, fungus cover in 2015, moisture in 2015, and percent openness of the tree canopy measured in July 2014.
Murphy Dome: Moss-associated N-fixation measurements in a moss transplant and leaf litter manipulation experiment in black spruce and paper birch stands
This dataset contains nitrogen fixation measurements from the moss transplant experiment in the state forest on Murphy Dome (Cache Creek Road). Fixation rates were measured in August 2015 in two moss species: Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi in black spruce and paper birch stands and associated with leaf litter manipulations.
McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER: Transplant Lake Integrated Connectivity Experiment (tLICE) in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, January 2018
The purpose of this experiment, performed as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) program, was to investigate the impact of lake level rise and moat expansion on microbial community diversity and function in the East Lobe of Lake Bonney, located in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. The “tLICE†experiment tested the following MCM5 Hypotheses: H3-Disturbance increases connectivity and accelerates shifts towards homogeneity, and H4-Decreased heterogeneity reduces community resistance and resilience. Lake water from the East Lobe of Lake Bonney was collected at depths representing maximum phytoplankton productivity (5 m, 17 m, 23 m), and transferred to dialysis bags. The bags were then attached to PVC frames and transplanted to new locations within the lake in two experiments: 1) a moat transplant, in which 5 m communities were transplanted to the open water moat; and 2) shallow to deep transplant, in which communities from all three sampling depths were moved 3 m down the water column to mimic approximately one decade of lake level rise. Transplanted samples were incubated under these conditions for two weeks, and then frames were recovered and samples were processed for a number of measurements. This data package includes the following measurements: nutrient concentration, chlorophyll-a content, chlorophyll fluorescence, cell density, amplicon gene sequences (16S and 18S rRNA genes), and physical parameters.
Data from: Climate limitation at the cold edge – contrasting perspectives from species distribution modelling and a transplant experiment
<p>The role of climate in determining range margins is often studied using species distribution models (SDMs), which are easily applied but have well-known limitations, e.g. due to their correlative nature and colonization and extinction time lags. Transplant experiments can give more direct information on environmental effects, but often cover small spatial and temporal scales. We simultaneously applied an SDM using high-resolution spatial predictors and an integral projection (demographic) model based on a transplant experiment at 58 sites to examine the effects of microclimate, light and soil conditions on the distribution and performance of a forest herb, <i>Lathyrus vernus</i>, at its cold range margin in central Sweden. In the SDM, occurrences were strongly associated with warmer climates. In contrast, only weak effects of climate were detected in the transplant experiment, whereas effects of soil conditions and light dominated. The higher contribution of climate in the SDM is likely a result from its correlation with soil quality, forest type, and potentially historic land use, which were unaccounted for in the model. Predicted habitat suitability and population growth rate, yielded by the two approaches, were not correlated across the transplant sites. We argue that the ranking of site habitat suitability is probably more reliable in the transplant experiment than in the SDM because predictors in the former better describe understory conditions, but that ranking might vary among years, e.g. due to differences in climate. Our results suggest that <i>L. vernus</i> is limited by soil and light rather than directly by climate at its northern range edge, where conifers dominate forests and create suboptimal conditions of soil and canopy-penetrating light. A general implication of our study is that to better understand how climate change influences range dynamics, we should not only strive to improve existing approaches but also to use multiple approaches in concert.</p>
Disentangling the effects of methanogen community and environment on peatland greenhouse gas production by a reciprocal transplant experiment
<p>1. Northern peatlands consist of a mosaic of peatland types that vary spatially and temporally and differ in their methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) production. Microbial community composition and environment both potentially control the processes that release carbon from anoxic peat either as CH<sub>4</sub> or carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>), a less potent greenhouse gas than CH<sub>4</sub>. However, the respective roles of these controls remain unclear, which prevents incorporating microbes in the predictions of peatland CH<sub>4</sub> emissions.</p> <p>2. Here, a reciprocal transplant experiment was carried out to separate the influences of microbial community and environment in CH<sub>4</sub> and anaerobic CO<sub>2</sub> production. Peat from an acidic <i>Sphagnum</i> bog and a sedge fen with higher pH was enclosed in membrane bags with a pore size of 0.2 µm, preventing microbial colonization from the outside, and transplanted in the field for two months.</p> <p>3. Potential CH<sub>4</sub> production was primarily controlled by the environment. The conditions in the bog suppressed the initially higher activity of fen methanogens and reduced CH<sub>4</sub> production by 79%. Against expectations, the inhibition was not specific to acetate-using Methanotrichaceae. Reciprocal transplantation favoured Methanosarcinaceae and potentially methylotrophic methanogenesis in general. Bog methanogens, mostly hydrogenotrophic Methanoregulaceae, retained their community structure and activity in the fen with a slight increase (+37%) in CH<sub>4</sub> production.</p> <p>4. Anaerobic CO<sub>2</sub> production was controlled by both the microbial community and the environment. Transplantation led to increased CO<sub>2</sub> production in both bog (+50%) and fen peat (+57%) with distinct bacterial community, showing that the new environment directed more carbon to other anaerobic processes than methanogenesis. 5. Taken together, these results relate differences in CH<sub>4</sub> production of bogs and fens to ecophysiology of specific methanogen groups. The sensitiveness of fen methanogens to the acidic conditions in <i>Sphagnum</i> bogs can help explain the decrease of CH<sub>4</sub> emission in the typical boreal peatland succession from young fens to older bogs. Increase in anaerobic CO<sub>2</sub> vs. CH<sub>4</sub> production with transplantation shows that disturbances of boreal peatlands can activate poorly defined pathways of anaerobic decomposition.</p>
High-resolution tracking of microbial colonization in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation experiments via metagenome-assembled genomes
<p>This project contains anvi'o profiles and contigs databases that is used and/or referenced from the Lee STM and Khan SA, <em>et al.</em> study titled "<strong>High-resolution tracking of microbial colonization in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation experiments via metagenome-assembled genomes</strong>". The pre-print of this study is available via http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/090993.</p> <p>To be able to work with the data files you will need anvi'o <strong>v2.1.0</strong> to be installed on your system. For installation instructions, or to have access to a Docker image for anvi'o, please visit this URL: http://merenlab.org/software/anvio</p> <p>Public data:</p> <ul> <li><strong>ANVIO-FMT-D-R01-R02-QUICK-VISUALIZATION.tar.gz</strong>: Data files for a quick visualization of the 97 MAGs and their distribution across the two FMT recipients. A run script in the archive explains how to use this data.<br> </li> <li><strong>ANVIO-FMT-D-R01-R02-MERGED-PROFILE.tar.gz</strong>: The merged anvi'o profile for the entire data, which also contains a collection of 97 MAGs identified in the donor. The profile database contains no hierarchical clustering of contigs, however, individual MAGs can be displayed via the following notation since the collection 'MAGs' describe the organization of contigs in each MAG referenced from the dataset `ANVIO-FMT-D-R01-R02-QUICK-VISUALIZATION`, as well as from the paper: "anvi-refine -c CONTIGS.db -p PROFILE.db -C MAGs -b <em>FMT-Donor_MAG_00054</em>". All MAG names are in the supplementary tables in our paper.<br> </li> <li><strong>ANVIO-FMT-D-R01-R02-MAGs-SUMMARY.tar.gz</strong>: A static HTML website that contains FASTA files for each MAG, and TAB-delimited matrices for coverage and detection values, and others. After unpacking, you can double-click the index.html file. </li> </ul>
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