{"id":219,"date":"2020-12-18T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/katz\/?p=219"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:42:29","slug":"new-paper-from-alli-cramer-on-classifying-ocean-biomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/katz\/2020\/12\/18\/new-paper-from-alli-cramer-on-classifying-ocean-biomes\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paper from Alli Cramer on Classifying Ocean Biomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/geb.13192\">Newly published in Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/a>, research by Alli Cramer, a 2020 doctoral graduate of WSU\u2019s School of the Environment, and WSU Professor Stephen Katz revealed a new approach which sorts biomes based on their life-supporting potential and stability of the sea floor.\u00a0 Alli reviewed more than 130 studies to weigh variables such as light, depth, and nutrients across seven biomes incorporating dozens of environments, including coral reefs, kelp beds, ocean ice, and deep abyssal plains.\u00a0 Analyzing the data inductively, rather than proceeding from an initial hypothesis, she found biomes were most clearly sorted by two strong variables: gross primary production, a measure of the energy in the food web; and substrate mobility, or the movement and composition of the ocean floor.\u00a0 This represents a new synthesis that integrates metabolic energy flowing through communities with physical forcing of the abiotic environment as structuring forces in ecosystem organization.\u00a0 This paper was some really creative science and it is especially satisfying as this paper started out as an answer to a question on Alli&#8217;s qualifying exam.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-396x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-396x239.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-792x479.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-1536x928.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-990x598.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms-1188x718.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/1991\/2020\/12\/Cramer-ocean-comms.jpg 1771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/geb.13192\">Newly published in Global Ecology and Biogeography<\/a>, research by Alli Cramer, a 2020 doctoral graduate of WSU\u2019s School of the Environment, and WSU Professor Stephen Katz revealed a new approach which sorts biomes based on their life-supporting potential and stability of the sea floor.\u00a0 Alli reviewed more than 130 studies to weigh variables such as light, depth, and nutrients across seven biomes incorporating dozens of environments, including coral reefs, kelp beds, ocean ice, and deep abyssal plains.\u00a0 Analyzing the data inductively, rather than proceeding from an initial hypothesis, she found biomes were most clearly sorted by two strong variables: gross primary production, a measure &#8230; 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