Acknowledgements
I would like to first thank Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve for hosting me this summer at the Sun Field Station, along with David Moreno Mateos , Restoration Fellow at JRBP, for heading this project and providing me and my coworkers with direction. I would also like to thank the Reed Faculty, specifically Sarah Schaack and Keith Karoly, for advising me on my project proposal and helping apply for the MESSE award. Thanks also to Dave Mucciarone with Stanford’s Stable Isotope Lab for assisting us with isotopic , and the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology for allowing us their ball mill. Finally I would like to think Leigh Latta from the Schaack Lab for helping me with isotopic data and using R. Support for this work provided by the Mellon Environmental Science Summer Experience Award.