Ferp.ucsc.edu Website Review

UCSC-FERP: INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING AND ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR A CHANGING PLANET. The UCSC-FERP is a 16-ha mapped forest plot in Mediterranean-climate, mixed-evergreen coastal forest in the Santa Cruz mountains, along the a short walk from the UCSC laboratories and clas*rooms. Created entirely by UCSC student interns and as*istants, and the site of numerous student research projects, it serves to foster research and inquiry-based teaching about ecology and evolutionary biology in a The plot includes ~28,000 tagged woody individuals larger than 1 cm diameter, with 34 woody species from 30 genera and 18 families. Oaks, We welcome and encourage responsible research on the UCSC-FERP that complements our long-term research goals.  We strive to make our data freely accessible to researchers, and welcome observational and minimally manipulative studies in the forest.  Please see our page on data policy and available data, and contact FERP Director and Environmental Studies Professor Gregory Gilbert ([email protected]) We aim to make all FERP data readily available as soon as it is responsible to do so.  We ask that you keep us informed of The UCSC-FERP has been established and supported by generous funding from the National Science Foundation (DEB-0515520, DEB-0842059,DEB-1655896), the Pepper-Giberson Chair in Environmental Studies, The UCSC Committee on Research, the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence, and the Smithsonian Institute's Center For Tropical Forest Science (CTFS). The UCSC-FERP is part of the CTFS-ForestGEO network of