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Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment
The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE) studies the response of California grassland to 4 environmental factors changing globally--warming, nitrogen deposition, elevated carbon dioxide, and increased precipitation--applied in a full-factorial design. The experiment covers 3 ha of grassland and has operated since 1998, with treatments beginning in the fall of 1998. The four global change treatments, and all possible combinations, are applied in a split-plot, randomized block design with 8 replicates, a total of 128 experimental units. A wildfire in the summer of 2003 burned two of the replicates in each treatment, dropping the level of replication to six in the main experiment, but adding fire as a replicated treatment. There are also 8 replicates of a true control, with no treatment infrastructure. This comprehensive study involves a third of all JRBP researchers.
Over the first 5 years of the experiment, supplemental nitrate deposition produced the largest increase in ... Read More
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JRBP Annual Report
The 2010 - 2011 Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve Annual Report is now available online in PDF format.
Download the Annual Report.
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New report on mountain lions at Jasper Ridge
Mountain Lions at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: An Exercise in Management and Policy Options,
authored by five members of the Rising Environmental Leaders Network (RELN) at Stanford, is now available for download.
The RELN is a project at the Woods Institute for the Environment designed for postdoctoral fellows and PhD students ...
read more and download the report.
Successful prescribed burn at JRBP
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), in collaboration with Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve,
conducted a small, prescribed burn inside the preserve's main entrance on Sand Hill Road on Monday, July 18, 2011.
The prescribed burn was confined to just 1.2 acres of grassland and provided a range of benefits for management and research.
More information, including videos and photos, is available at jrbp.stanford.edu/fire.php.
JRBP a classroom for Peninsula students
The San Jose Mercury News recently published an article written by Jasper
Ridge docent Caroline Hodge about the Eastside Field Studies program at
Jasper Ridge. Sixth graders from Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto
visit JRBP once a week for the duration of spring quarter, where they
participate in hands-on ecology lessons led by docent-trained Stanford
students.
Read the full article at www.mercurynews.com/home-garden/.
REAL Program to receive the Stanford Community Partnership Award
The Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership ( REAL ) program has been awarded the Community partnership award from the Stanford Office of Government and Community Relations.
Click here to read more about the program.
JRBP faculty director Chris Field to receive Heinz Award for environmental science and leadership
Stanford researcher and JRBP faculty director Chris Field will be one of the 10 recipients of the 2009 Heinz Awards. The Heinz Family Foundation is recognizing Field "for his leadership and innovation in carbon cycle and climate science."
Field, a professor of biology and earth systems science at Stanford, also serves as the director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and is a co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2.
Read more at Stanford News Service
Jasper Ridge provides hands-on learning for local students
Local high school students are learning ecology at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve through the Redwood Environmental Academy of Leadership (REAL), a program based at Redwood High School in Redwood City.
The REAL program is funded by a grant from the Stanford Initiative on Improving K-12 Education.
Read more at Stanford News Service
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JRBP Mission Statement
The mission of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is to contribute to the understanding
of the Earth's natural systems through research, education, and protection of the
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