{"id":417,"date":"2020-04-24T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=417"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:59:25","slug":"we-%f0%9f%92%97-leaf-litter-bags-in-the-l3-leaf-litter-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/we-%f0%9f%92%97-leaf-litter-bags-in-the-l3-leaf-litter-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"We ? Leaf Litter Bags in the L3 (Leaf Litter Lab)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/71-300x205.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/71-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/71-676x462.png 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/71.png 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> Litter bags filled with willow leaves and flowers prepped for deployment and deployed in streams at Mount St. Helens. Photos\u00a0by Carri LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">Litter bags filled with willow leaves and flowers for undergraduate Iris Garthwaite\u2019s independent research project as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">We use m<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">etal ID tags\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">t<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">o track\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">willow<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"TrackChangeTextInsertion TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW165495363 BCX0\">\u00a0identity, plant sex, and weevil attack status.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP TrackedChange SCXW165495363 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/72-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/72-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/72-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/72-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/72.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> Willow leaves incubated in the streams of the Pumice Plain decompose and skeletonize over time. Photo by Carri LeRoy\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Litter bags installed in streams help us determine decomposition and organic matter cycling rates. Willow leaves and flowers are colonized by microbes and aquatic macroinvertebrates that eat microbes and shred leaves. SURF student Angie\u00a0Froedin-Morgensen focuses on invert ID.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/73-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/73-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/73.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> Our research truck turned\u00a0solar-powered\u00a0drying oven \u2013\u00a0our solution to drying leaves at a remote field site! Photo by Carri LeRoy. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> The whole crew gets involved when it&#8217;s time for peak leaf fall! Our studies are often limited by how much leaf litter we can catch at abscission. On multi-day trips, we get creative about drying leaves \u2013 we converted our research truck into a solar-powered drying oven!\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litter bags filled with willow leaves and flowers for undergraduate Iris Garthwaite\u2019s independent research project as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program.\u00a0We use metal ID tags\u00a0to track\u00a0willow\u00a0identity, plant sex, and weevil attack status.\u00a0 Litter bags installed in streams help us determine decomposition and organic matter cycling rates. 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