Summer 2024

Cover of Summer 2024 issue of CEC Research. Photo is a close-up of a sundew plant. The plant consists of a rosette of red and green leaves. Long red hairs cover each spatulate leaf; viscous liquid droplets hang from the tips of each hair. [JPG, 468.79 KB]
Carnivorous sundew plants (Drosera rotundifolia and Drosera anglica) are commonly found in the fens around Sagehen Creek Field Station. Fens are nutrient-poor wetlands fed by groundwater. To obtain sufficient levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, sundews produce sticky droplets to catch prey, usually small insects. These droplets also contain an enzyme that aids prey digestion. During the Summer 2024 run of CEC, students tested the stickiness and prey-catching efficiency of these carnivorous plants. Image: Zayd Andre

Prescribed burns in a mixed conifer forest maintain diversity in bird communities [PDF, 2.33 MB]
Kathryn Bancroft, Camille Dayton, Jih-Heng Huang, Natalie Ng

Evaluating the morphological and physiological differences between Triantha occidentalis and Drosera spp. to determine predatory success [PDF, 1.54 MB]
Melanie Gordon, Alessandra Lucchesi, Connor Overton

Spatiotemporal foraging diversity in northern Sierra Nevada chipmunks [PDF, 676.44 KB]
Lynn Huang, Helen Krull, Joana Rose, Alexander Speidel

Exploration of a hydrochemical method for estimation of carbon sequestration in fens [PDF, 1.17 MB]
Zayd Andre, Miles Carter, Faith Shortridge, Finn Thornton

Fire and flora: How fire severity within a prescribed burn affects the understory of a mixed-conifer forest in the Sierra Nevada [PDF, 920.59 KB]
Bruno Bartalos, Rachel Roberts, Zoë Wong-VanHaren, Gianna Wright

Macroinvertebrate communities differ in headwater streams surrounded by different terrestrial habitats [PDF, 651.70 KB]
Franklin Chen, Jimmy Choi, Bethany Johnson, James Van Gorkom

Soil characteristics differ between burned and unburned subalpine forest and on a gradient with burn intensity [PDF, 6.41 MB]
Zoe Antonoff, Anna Marchant, Zephyr Moss, Karla Vaca