The Impacts of Increased Heat and Precipitation on Plant Phenology and Demography in Pacific Northwest Prairies

Abstract

* Through the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) within the Environmental Studies rogram, eight undergraduate students prepared, performed, and completed a study over the course of two terms, with some work into the summer. In the first term, most of the background information necessary was learned, methods were developed, and a lengthy monitoring proposal was produced. In the second term, all the data was collected and analyzed and the results were discussed. Finally, all the work was compiled into a final report, ic as presented at the 2018 ELP symposium. Now it is being put forth for a broader audience. From hardly knowing each other in the beginning, the eight students grew into a tight-knit team, with many long nights of work and many long laughs. The Climate and Phenology eam hopes people find their project as interesting as they did, and if there any questions, emails are encouraged. They can be reached at huntecmackin@gmail.com, and their faculty sponsors, Laura McCullough and Peg Boulay, can be reached respectively at lmccull2@uoregon.edu and boulay@uoregon.edu. The Impacts of Increased Heat and Precipitation on Plant Phenology and Demography in Pacific Northwest Prairies