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*Investigator Meeting May 19-22  NCSU & Duke Forest
*Investigator Meeting May 19-22  NCSU & Duke Forest
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**Goals and Methods
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**Chamber construction:
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***Chamber hookup and pipe deploymnent expected at HF in June 2009
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***Chambers expected to be running August 2009
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***Increase of 5 degC maximum expected
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**Challenges:
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***Sampling will be facilitated through chamber walls to avoid trampling
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***Tags will be used to differentiate between migration and survival across treatments
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**Goals and Methods:
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* Investigator Meeting Fall 2009 Harvard Forest
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* Next Investigator Meeting Fall 2009 Harvard Forest
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**Heat tolerance experiments
**Heat tolerance experiments
**Decomposition & litter chemistry
**Decomposition & litter chemistry
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Description/Abstract

  • Ant Ecology & Climate Change

Meetings

  • Investigator Meeting May 19-22 NCSU & Duke Forest
    • Chamber construction:
      • Chamber hookup and pipe deploymnent expected at HF in June 2009
      • Chambers expected to be running August 2009
      • Increase of 5 degC maximum expected
    • Challenges:
      • Sampling will be facilitated through chamber walls to avoid trampling
      • Tags will be used to differentiate between migration and survival across treatments
    • Goals and Methods:

Image:Table 1_SLP.png


  • Next Investigator Meeting Fall 2009 Harvard Forest


Weekly tasks

  • May 26 - June 8
    • Construct & deploy pitfall traps (4/chamber & 3 controls + 1/minichamber = 120 total, each site)
    • Prepare chambers to be sampled through side walls
    • Re-top warm minichambers
    • HF: Frank visit & order boilers
    • HF/Katie: Order ant tags
    • DF: Construct & deploy plexi-covered nest boxes
    • DF: Deploy bamboo, rock, wood nests
    • Skype: Monday, June 1 & June 8, 4pm


Timeline

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  • 2010 Additions:
    • Heat tolerance experiments
    • Decomposition & litter chemistry



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