{"id":25,"date":"2021-07-29T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:44:44","slug":"colorado-river","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/projects-and-activities\/colorado-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactions between climate and flood adaptations in a woody riparian species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Interactions between climate and flood adaptations in a woody riparian species<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> Riparian plants are adapted to both climate and flood characteristics. Glen Canyon Dam operations have fundamentally changed the Colorado River ecosystem in Grand Canyon, including the types and amounts of riparian plants that are found there. At the same time, ongoing climate change is altering temperatures in the southwest. The interactions between changes in flood characteristics and changes in temperature have not been studied, but will be important for understanding how to successfully manage riparian ecosystems. We conducted an experiment on a native, riparian shrub (<em>Pluchea sericea<\/em>, arrowweed) to help us understand how individuals collected from across a temperature gradient differ in their responses to flooding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant species:<\/strong> Pluchea sericea, arrowweed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborators:<\/strong> NAU, USGS-Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants:<\/strong><br \/>\nEmily Palmquist, Ph.D. Student<br \/>\nBrad Butterfield, Assistant Research Professor<br \/>\nKiona Ogle, Professor<br \/>\nThomas Whitham, Regents&#8217; Professor<br \/>\nGery Allan, Professor<br \/>\nPatrick Shafroth, Research Ecologist &#8211; USGS<\/p>\n<div class='shortcode-column-container'><!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<figure id=\"attachment_5140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5140\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5140 size-portrait-image\" src=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Climate-and-Flooding_1-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Arrowweed plant\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Palmquist next to arrowweed plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<figure id=\"attachment_5141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5141 size-portrait-image\" src=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/Climate-and-Flooding_2-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levels of flooding for arrowweed plants, Adair Patterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class='shortcode-column-container'><!-- shortcode-column -->\n<div class=\"shortcode-column shortcode-column--count-2\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interactions between climate and flood adaptations in a woody riparian species Purpose: Riparian plants are adapted to both climate and flood characteristics. Glen Canyon Dam operations have fundamentally changed the Colorado River ecosystem in Grand Canyon, including the types and amounts of riparian plants that are found there. At the same time, ongoing climate change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/240"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}