"Title","Broken handler node_data_field_wg_id.field_wg_id_value","Principle Investigator","Product","Sites Represented","Award Date","Competition Date","Email","Final Report","Broken handler node_data_field_wg_lter_other.field_wg_lter_other_value","Number of Participants" "2013 LTER Training Workshop Proposal - Remote Data Acquisition","","","","","","","","","","" "A guide to successful graduate student socio-ecological research: Insights from the Long Term Ecological Research Network","","","","","","","","","","" "A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions","","","","MCM","","","sokole@vt.edu","","","3" "Atmospheric correction to LTER Landsat catalog","","","","","","","","","","" "Beyond the Numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community","","","","","","","","","","" "Coastal Wetland Ecology and Geomorphology","","","","","","","","","","" "Cross site analysis and synthesis of arts and humanities engagement within LTER","","","","","","","","","","" "Cross site analysis and synthesis of the role of vegetation, sediment supply, sea level rise and storminess on intertidal coastal geomorphology","","","","","","","","","","" "Enhancement of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary to Support Data Synthesis","","","","","","","","","","" "Establishing High Quality Digital Collections of LTER Educational Resources","","","","","","","","","","" "Exploring the Seasonal Synchrony of Catchment Nitrogen Dynamics: The Search for a Unifying Theoretical Framework","","","","","","","","","","" "GeoNIS Implementation with PASTA","","","","","","","","","","" "Identifying Alternative Indicators for the Detection of Abrupt Transitions in Ecosystems: a Consideration of Time Scale and Community Parameters","","","","","","","","","","" "Leveraging PASTA and EML-based Workflow Tools for LTER Data Synthesis","","","","","","","","","","3" "Linking aquatic and soil organic matter across ecosystems through characterization of optical properties","","","","","","","","","","" "Managing sensor networks and data: Best practices for LTER","","","","","","","","","","" "Mechanisms of convergence and divergence: understanding the variability of plant community responses to multiple resource manipulations","","","","","","","","","","" "Responses of soft sediment coastal ecosystems to sea level rise and coastal squeeze in the LTER Network","","","","","","","","","","" "Sensitivity of ecosystem properties to winter climate anomalies","","","","","","","","","","" "Soil Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Data and Development of Protocols for a New Long-Term, Network-Wide Data Stream","","","","","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","" "Synthesis of stream ecosystem responses to nutrient enrichment at multiple trophic levels","","","","","","","","","","" "The Ecosystem Sensitivity to Rainfall Experiment (EcoSeRE): Design and Synthesis","","","","","","","","","","" "Training working group: Climate and streamflow seasonal trend analysis at LTER sites","","","","","","","","","","" "Training Workshop for Site Science Communicators","","","","","","","","","","" "Training workshop: Software tools and strategies for managing sensor networks","","","","","","","","","","" "Urban aquatic ecosystems: a synthesis working group proposal","","","","","","","","","","" "Veg-DB Phase 2: Developing a cross-site system to improve development and access to synthetic vegetation databases","","","","","","","","","","" "Acquisition and management of data from remote locations","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","16" "Bi-stability in North American ecosystems: analyzing woody plant cover for temporal stable-state dynamics","","","","ARC, KNZ, JRN, NWT, VCR, SGS","","","","Final Report.pdf","","10" "Climate effects on ANPP of saltmarshes of the North American Atlantic coast – a hierarchical model approach","","","","","","","","Final Report","","" "Data Management for LTER Ecologists Shortcourse - August 14 - 16, 2012","","","","","","","","Final Report.pdf","","18" "Defining Checks to Ensure High Quality LTER Data Packages","","","","KBS, MCR, SBC, BNZ, LNO","","","","","","6" "Development and analysis of a database of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery to support cross-site research","","","","","","","","Final Report","","" "Drupal Environmental Information Management System (DEIMS) workshop: A workshop for new and advanced DEIMS users","","","","","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","8" "EML Diagnosis and Best Practice Implementation Mentor","","","","","","","","","","" "Integrating Local Knowledge into Long Term Ecological Research - MALS Training and Planning Workshop","","","","","","","","Prelininary Report (pdf)","","" "Land Use Institutions, Land Use Land Cover Change, and the Distribution of Ecosystem Services","","","","","","","","","","15" "LTER Metabase Software-as-a-Service development","","","","","","","","","","" "LTER Personnel Database Web Services Development","","","","","","","","","","" "Quantifying Uncertainty in Wet Atmospheric Deposition","","","Publications: 1) Yanai, R.D., C.R. Levine, M.B. Green, and J.L. Campbell. 2012. Quantifying Uncertainty in Forest Nutrient Budgets, J. For. 110(8): 448-456). 2) Yanai, R.D., S.P. Hamburg, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, M.A. Arthur, C.B. Fuss, C.T. Driscoll, P.M. Groffman and T.G. Siccama. From missing source to missing sink: long-term nitrogen dynamics in the northern hardwood forest. Ecosystems. In preparation. 3) Yanai, R.D., E. Matsuzaki, N. Tokuchi, J.L. Campbell, M.B. Green, C.R. Levine, Fukushima, S. Laseter, C. Brown, J. Knoepp, J. Vose, A. Bailey, D. Buso, G.E. Likens. A comparison of uncertainty in stream export of solutes from headwater catchments at Wakayama, Hubbard Brook and Coweeta Experimental Forests. Hydrological Processes. In Preparation. 4) Campbell, J.L, R.D. Yanai, M.B. Green, C.R. Levine, M.E. Harmon, J. Vose, M.B. Adams, W.H. McDowell, S. Sebestyen , and M. Williams. Quantifying uncertainty in ecology: examples from small watershed studies. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In Preparation.","AND, CWT, HBR, SEV, KNZ","","","","Final report (pdf)","","14" "Responses of ecosystem productivity to Critical Climate Periods; understanding the role of fine-scale temporal climate patterns on ecosystem productivity","","","","","","","","Final Report","","" "Retrieving and using information from web services to improve EML content","","","","","","","","","","24" "SiteDB redesign to accommodate ClimDB/HydroDB and StreamChemDB","","","","LNO, KBS, SBC, BNZ, AND, NTL","","","","","","8" "Synthesizing long-term records and eco-hydrologic modeling to quantify structural legacy effects","","","","HBR, BES","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","4" "The influence of precipitation variability on diversity and composition of North American grasslands","","","","KBS, GCE, SEV, KNZ, NWT, JRN, ARC, CAP, SGS","","","","","","18" "Tools and training for sensor network establishment and management","","","","FCE, CWT, NTL, AND, BNZ, MCR, SBC, JRN, LUQ, VCR, ARC, SEV, KNZ,","","","","","","31" "Veg-DB: Developing a cross-site system to improve access to vegetation synthetic databases","","","","AND, BNZ, KNZ, PIE, ARC, HFR,","","","","Final Report","","" "A Data Synthesis Working Group: Disappearing Snow in the Western US: Ecosystem Implications for the Rain-Snow Transition Zone","","","Proposal: “Collaborative Research: Waning Winters: Biotic Impacts of Changing Climate and Disturbance Regimes on Cold Lands Ecosystems from Stand to Cross-­‐regional Scales”. Macrosystems NSF White paper entitled: “When Winter Wanes: Biotic Impacts of Changing Climate and Disturbance Regimes on Seasonally Snow-covered Ecosystems from the Watershed to Continental Scale”.","","","","nolina@science.oregonstate.edu","Final report (pdf)","","13" "Coordination and Reports related to EML Congruency Checker","","","","","","","","","","" "Cross-Site Synthesis between CCE, MCR and SBC: Working group to develop comparative regional ocean modeling effort","","","The workshop develop and submited an NSF proposal to OCE (decision early in 2012):","","","","ajmiller@ucsd.edu","Final Report.pdf","","11" "Develop an LTER NIS Best Practices for Designing and Writing Workflow Scripts in the PASTA Framework","","","Other Products: 1) Guide to accessing data in the NIS via the provided webservices: http://im.lternet.edu/sites/im.lternet.edu/files/NISdataworkflowsbestpra... 2) Three screen casts depicting the development of workflows for accessing data in the NIS with R, Matlab, and Kepler: http://mtsms.unm.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/cf020feb9c6a4222a57d8daa334f... 3) PASTAprog - generating R, Matlab, SPSS programs based on EML. Extensive documentation may be found here: http://im.lternet.edu/node/1079 ","","","","cgries@wisc.edu","Final Report.pdf","","" "Developing Protocols for Cross-Site Research on Local Ecological Knowledge and Social-Ecological Systems","","","Two scientific papers have been produced from the mapping work, and another paper on comparative LEK research is in preparation.","AND, KNZ, JRN, FCE, PIE, LNO, CAP, NWT, BNZ, GCE","","","nsayre@berkeley.edu","Final report (pdf)","","13" "Development of a hydrochemical database – StreamchemDB","","","Manuscript Argerich, A. Frontiers in Ecology. In preparation. Posters: ""Temporal Trends in Stream N Concentrations and Responses to Disturbances in US Forested Basins."" AGU 2011. “Variability in stream nitrogen at US Forest Service Experimental Forests and relevance to proposed stream nutrient criteria"". AGU 2011. ""Revisiting experimental catchment studies in forest hydrology"". Presented by Stephen Sebestyen. IUGG 2011 Stream Chemistry Databases Webinar August 29, 2011. “Trends in stream dissolved inorganic nitrogen in forested reference basins across US. ” Presented by Alba Argerich. SEFS 2011. Presentation: On June 30, Dr. Alba Argerich (Oregon State University) presented a StreamChem communication at the Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS). Ref: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/efr/news.htm ","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","19" "Drupal Environmental Information Management System workshop: Data applications","","","Other Products: 1)Rebuild website and database","","","","isangil@lternet.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","13" "Ecological information management for LTER graduate students and researchers","","","Other products: 1) We developed an outline for the material on our IM website (http://im.lternet.edu/resources/training_material) Presentation: 2) 19 PowerPoint presentations are under active development and in draft stage.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","6" "Finding the Data: Enhancing the Utility of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary","","","Other Products: 1)LTER_Keywords_V0.9.xls - The final list consists of 640 keywords Publications: 2)Porter, J.H. 2010. A Controlled Vocabulary for LTER Datasets. LTER Databits Spring 2010. http://databits.lternet.edu/spring-2010/controlled-vocabulary-lter-datasets 3)Porter, J. H. 2006. Improving Data Queries through use of a Controlled Vocabulary. LTER Databits Spring 2006. http://intranet.lternet.edu/archives/documents/Newsletters/DataBits/06sp... 4)Porter, J.H. 2009. Developing a Controlled Vocabulary for LTER Data. LTER Databits Fall 2009. http://databits.lternet.edu/node/70","","","","jhp7e@virginia.edu","","","6" "Forecasting Rates of Riverine Leaf Litter Decomposition in Response to Inland Climate Change","","","Other: Presentations: Follstad Shah, J., M. Ardon, J. Kominoski, W. Dodds, M. Gessner, N. Griffiths, A. Lecerf, C. LeRoy,D. Manning, S. Johnson, A. Rosemond, C. Swan, J. Webster, and L. Zeglin. 2012. MASS LOSS: Aquantitative synthesis of leaf decomposition in streams and rivers. Oral presentation at the Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, May 20-24, 2012.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","15" "Linking LTER sites via spatially explicit data: Creating a network-wide basemap and Interactive Cartographic Almanac","","","Website: LTER network basemap and Interactive Cartographic Almanac (ICA).","BNZ, AND, KNZ","","","","","","3" "Long-term Experiments in the LTER Network: Synthesis and Hypothesis Testing","","","1) Knapp, A.K., Smith, M.D., Hobbie, S.E., Collins, S.L., Fahey, T.J., Hansen, G.A., Landis, D.A., La Pierre, K.J., Melillo, J.M., Seastedt, T.R., Shaver, G.R., and Webster, J.R. Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network Author(s)Biosience, Vol. 62, No. 4 (April 2012), pp. 377-389.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","18" "LTERMapS Phase 2","","","Other Products: Server up and running at the LNO, with appropriate software. LTERMapS team is able to access the server remotely. Image service for pilot site DEMs is running on LNO server. All DEMs in same projection. JavaScript API skin is in place, and widgets are being added. Map Services produced for Jamie Hollingsworth IM buyout are available for use within the web application. Initial outline for the GEONIS was developed, with diagram showing relationship to PASTA. LTERMapS version 1 upgraded to Google Maps version 3.0 (currently waiting for LNO to update the application). Updated latitude and longitude data in SiteDB and updated web entry form to reflect changes. Modifications to FGDC2EML stylesheet have been completed, providing a tool to create EML 2.1 metadata from FGDC metadata.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","7" "Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies","","","Publications: Parmen, J 2011, Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST), LTER Network News, Fall 2011, Vol. 24 No. 1. (http://news.lternet.edu/Article2321.html) Campbell, J.L., Yanai, R.D., and Green, M.B. 2011. Estimating uncertainties in watershed studies. EOS 92(26), doi:10.1029/2011EO260004. Yanai, R. Levine, C., Green, M. and Campbell, J. 2012. Ecosystem budgets have no error: a progress report on Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST). Journal of Forestry 110(8): 448-456 (Refereed). Yanai et al. A comparison of uncertainty in stream export of solutes from headwater catchments at Wakayama, Hubbard Brook and Coweeta Experimental Forests. (In prep.) Campbell et al. Quantifying uncertainty in ecology: Examples from small watershed studies. (In prep.) Website: https://sites.google.com/site/quantifyinguncertainty/home or www.quantifyinguncertainty.org Presentations: Yanai, R.D., Tokuchi, N. Green, M.B., Campbell, J.L., Levine, C.R., and Matsuzaki, E. 2011. Nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems: Uncertainty in nutrient budgets. Oral presentation by Yanai University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, June 29, 2011 Quantifying uncertainty in ecosystem studies. 2011. Levine, C.R., Yanai, R.D., Campbell, J.L., Green, M.B., Buso, D.C., and Likens, G.E. Oral presentation by Levine at the 48th Annual Hubbard Brook Cooperators’ Meeting, July 6-7, 2011, North Woodstock, NH. Yanai, R.D., Tokuchi, N. Green, M.B., Campbell, J.L., Levine, C.R., and Matsuzaki, E., Likens, G.E. and Buso, D.C. 2011. Hubbard Brook, Coweeta, and Wakayama (Japan): Sources of uncertainty in stream export of nutrients. Oral presentation by Yanai at the 48th Annual Hubbard Brook Cooperators’ Meeting, July 6-7, 2011, North Woodstock, NH. Levine, C.R., Campbell, J.L., Yanai, R.D., Green, M.B., Adams, M.B., Buso, D.C., Harmon, M.E., LaDeau, S.L., Likens, G.E., McDowell, W.H., Sebestyen, S.D., Vose, J.M., and Williams, M.W. 2011. Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST): A cross-site comparison of watershed input-output budgets. Oral presentation by Levine at the 96th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Aug. 7-12, 2011, Austin, TX. Campbell, J., Yanai, R., Green, M., Burns, D., LeDeau, S., Adams, M.B., Buso, D., Harmon, M., Keenan, T., Levine, C.R., McDowell, W., Parman, J., Richardson, A., Sebestyen, S., Shanley, J., Vose, J. and Williams, M. 2011. Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST). Oral presentation by Mary Beth Adams at the 4th Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Sep. 26-30, 2011, Fairbanks, AK. Adams also presented this as a poster at the North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Jun. 19-23, 2011, Roanoke, VA. Yanai, R. Levine, C., Green, M. and Campbell, J. Ecosystem budgets have no error: a progress report on Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST) 2011. Yanai, R.D., Campbell, J.L., LaDeau, S. Weathers, K., See, C. Green, M.B. 2012. Quantifying uncertainty in precipitation estimates. Oral presentation by Yanai at the at the 97th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Aug. 5-10, 2012, Portland, OR (Abstract published in proceedings). Poster: Campbell, J. Yanai, R., Green, M., Burns, D., LaDeau, S., Adams, M.B., Buso, D., Harmon, M., Keenan, T., Levine, C.R., McDowell, W., Parman, J., Sebestyen, S., Shanley, J., Vose, J. and Williams, M. 2011. Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST). Poster presentation by Mary Beth Adams at the North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Jun. 19-23, 2011, Roanoke, VA and the 4th Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, Sep. 26-30, 2011, Fairbanks, AK. Yanai, R.D., Levine, C.R., Green, M.B., and Campbell, J.L. 2012. Is the missing nitrogen source (or sink) at Hubbard Brook statistically significant? Presented by Yanai as a poster at the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Sept. 10-13, 2012, Estes Park, CO. See, C., Yanai, R., Campbell, J., Moore, D., Likens, G., Matsuzaki, E. 2012 A proposed cross-site comparison of missing data in long-term hydrologic datasets Presented by See as a poster at the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Sept. 10-13, 2012, Estes Park, CO Poster presentation by Yanai at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America October 16-19; San Antonio, TX (Abstract published in proceedings). Also presented at Rochester Academy of Science Meeting, October 29, Rochester, NY Proposal: Ruth Yanai (HBR) submitted a Research Coordination Network proposal to NSF in January 2011 titled “ RCN: Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies” at $500,000 over 5 years. Workshops: Organized a workshop titled “Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecological Studies” at the 96th Annual Meeting, Ecological Society of America, Aug. 7-12, 2011, Austin, TX. Organized a three day workshop on “Methods for Calculating Stream Solute Loads” in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, September 2011. A follow-up workshop was held with the same participants in Averill, NY in March 2012. Organized a workshop titled “Quantifying Uncertainty in Wet Atmospheric Deposition"" held at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Blue River, OR during May 21-22, 2012. Organized a two-hour workshop titled “Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies” at the 2012 LTER All Scientists Meeting on 11 September 2012. The 36 attendees represented 12 LTER sites (HBR, HJA, KBS, KNZ, CWT, NTL, PIE, HFR, BES, SEV, CAP, and PAL) as well as organizations such as NEON and the US Forest Service Will hold an Organized Oral Session called “Uncertainty Analysis: A Critical Step in Ecological Synthesis” at the 98th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America”. Minneapolis, MN August 4-9, 2013.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","12" "Social and Ecological Responses to Climate Change and Land-use Effects on Water Availability: Contrasting Resilience Among Major River Basins of the US and Canada","","","Publications: 1)Julia A. Jones, Irena F. Creed, Kendra L. Hatcher, Robert J. Warren, Mary Beth Adams, Melinda H. Benson, Emery Boose, Warren A. Brown, John L. Campbell, Alan Covich, David W. Clow, Clifford N. Dahm, Kelly Elder, Chelcy R. Ford, Nancy B. Grimm, Donald L. Henshaw, Kelli L. Larson, Evan S. Miles, Kathleen M. Miles, Stephen D. Sebestyen, Adam T. Spargo, Asa B. Stone, James M. Vose, Mark W. Williams. “Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites.” BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 4 (April 2012), pp. 390-404. Proposal: 2)“Sustainable Freshwater Systems: Headwaters to Households.” Pre-proposal Sustainability Research Network competition. NSF. Manuscripts: 3)Creed, I.F. et al. “Budyko curves and water resources at long-term ecological research sites.” In preparation 4)Warren, R.J. et al. “Streamflow trends and climate indices.” In preparation 5)Jones, J.A., K.L. Hatcher et al. “Population trends and streamflow trends in large river basins of the US.” In preparation","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","34" "State Changes and Threshold Dynamics","","","Publication: 1)Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Aaron M. Ellison, William R. Fraser, Kristen B. Gorman, Sally J.Holbrook, Christine M. Laney, Mark D. Ohman, Debra P.C. Peters, Finn C. Pillsbury,Andrew Rassweiler, Russell J. Schmitt, Sapna Sharma. “Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems.” 2011. Ecosphere 2:129. 2)A manuscript was completed and was submitted to PNAS on 8 June 2011.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","10" "Synthesis and Establishment of Guidelines Toward the Management of Next-Generation Sequence Data","","","Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ltermicrobialgenomics/home","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","" "The Influence of Precipitation Variability on Diversity and Composition of North American Grasslands","","","","","","","ksuding@uci.edu","","","" "Understanding Interactions within the LTER Network for Improved Collaboration","","","Other products: An update to the LTER network bibliography since 2006. An updated and more accurate bibliographic database for 1981-2006. Presentation: “The Evolution of Collaboration Among Researchers in the Long Term Ecological Research Network.” Sunbelt XXXII Conference for the International Network for Social Network Analysis in March 2012, Redondo Beach, CA.","","","","christianr@ecu.edu","Final report (pdf)","","10" "Web Services","","","Other products: 1)Development of a MySQL database that stores personnel data, including identity, role, site affiliation, and contact information. 2)Development of an XML schema for exchanging personnel information between computers. 3)Development of a REST web service interface that allows reading and writing of personnel information, as well as ancillary information such as lists of sites and role types, using the XML schema described above. 4)Development of a graphical web interface that sends GET requests to the web service described above and displays the results in human‐readable HTML format, allowing searching on name, site, role, and active/inactive status. 5)Development of a graphical web interface that sends PUT and POST requests to the web service described above, allowing addition and updating of personnel. 6)Development of XLS documents that transform documents in the XML schema described above into various human‐readable HTML formats.","","","","kbaker@ucsd.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","" "Web Services Working Group (WSWG)- IM Buyout","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","6" "An LTER Unit Registry: In Support of Data Integration","","","","","","","kbaker@ucsd.edu","","","11" "CANCELED-A Role for the LTER Network in the Carbon–Offset Market","","","","KBS, NTL, AND, CEH (UK)","","","millarn@msu.edu","","","" "Engaging Arts/Humanities in Future Scenarios Work","","","Website: Ecological Reflections An Archive of Art and Science Collaborative Efforts http://www.ecologicalreflections.com/ Other Products: Art Exhibits, symposia, workshop- NSF2012. Art works and creative writing from Bonanza Creek (BNZ), Harvard Forest (HFR), and North Temperate Lakes (NTL) LTER sites were displayed at NSF March-June 2012. The opening corresponded with the annual LTER Mini-Symposium hosted by NSF. ESA2012. A sampling of the NSF2012 collection of art pieces (photographs, sculpture, fiber arts, poetry) continued on to the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in August in Portland, OR, where it was viewed by over 400 meeting attendees over 4 days. Organized Oral Session at ESA. A half-day Organized Oral Session with 10 speakers was presented at ESA with a majority of presentations coming from the Ecological Reflections program. Presenters included artists, a poet, an LTER PI, and other scientists; up to 90 people were in attendance during the session. Workshop at ESA. We conducted a noon-hour formal ESA workshop on how to engage arts and humanities in environmental science programs. Approximately three dozen attendees took part in spirited discussions and drafted plans for programs at their own sites. Workshop at the 2012 LTER All-Scientists Meeting (ASM) in Estes Park CO. A half-day workshop at ASM gave an opportunity to share progress, challenges, inspiration among ca. 30 participants from quite a few sites plus NSF. See ASM workshop report. This was the third consecutive ASM with an arts/humanities workshop. Art/writing exhibit at 2012 LTER ASM. A subset of the art exhibited at NSF2012 and ESA2012 was displayed at ASM, sparking quite a bit of discussion and interest in developing new programs. NSF2013 exhibit. A second exhibit of art and writing will be displayed at NSF Feb 28-March 1, 2013, with works of 39 artists and writers from 11 LTER sites.","","","","fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","18" "Facilitating cross-synthesis research","","","Manuscript: Expected by end of year","ARC, PIE, BES, LUQ, SEV,LNO","","","isangil@lternet.edu","Final report (pdf)","","8" "From Molecules to Metadata: MIRADA LTERS Follow-up Working Group Meeting","","","Website: http://amarallab.mbl.edu/mirada/mirada.html","","","","amaral@mbl.edu","Final report (pdf)","","25" "Hydrologic effects from ecosystem responses to climate change and land use change","","","Proposals: 1) LTER workshop proposal. Array social, ecological, hydro info along hydro flowpaths. 2) Geography and special science proposal. 3) WSC proposal 2011 4) CNH proposal Nov. 2011 5) Working group proposal for synthesis center. Papers: 6)Bioscience","ARC, BNZ, CWT, HBR, HFR, KNZ, MCM, MCR, SBC, SGS","","","jonesj@geo.oregonstate.edu","Final report (pdf)","","14" "Identifying the benefits and barriers to graduate student urban cross‐site socioecological research","","","Manuscripts: 1)“The Next Generation of Scientists: Examining the Experiences of Graduate Students on Network-Level Science”. Roundtable article to Bioscience. September 2011, (In review). 2)“Anthropology and the Environment” section of Anthropology News. December 2011.","","","","michele.romolini@uvm.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","10" "Invertebrate Impacts on Ecosystem Services under Climate Change: A Synthesis Using Insights from the LTER Network","","","Publication: 1)Chelse M. Prather, Shannon Pelini, Angela Laws, Emily Rivest, Megan Woltz, Christopher P. Bloch, Israel Del Toro, Chuan-Kai Ho, John Kominoski, T. A. Scott Newbold, Sheena Parsons, A. Joern (In Press). 2)Prather, C. M., L. Pelini, S., Laws, A., Rivest, E., Woltz, M., Bloch, C. P., Toro, I. D., Ho, C.-K., Kominoski, J., Scott Newbold, T. A., Parsons, S. and Joern, A. , Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change. Biological Reviews, n/a. doi: 10.1111/brv.12002 Poster Presentations: 3)Chelse M. Prather, Angela Laws, and Shannon Pelini (2012). The little things that run the world revisited: Invertebrates, ecosystem services, and climate change. LTER All Scientists Meeting. Estes Park, CO. ","8 LTER SITES...","","","alaws@ksu.edu","Final report (pdf)","","11" "LTERMaps Internet Mapping Workshop","","","Other Products: LTERMapS Web Page--Instructions for building Google Maps applications","","","","tvalentine@fs.fed.us","Final report (pdf)","","9" "Predicting the Influence of Inland Climate Change on Continental-Scale Carbon and Nutrient Processing in River Networks","","","Manuscript: To be submitted to Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","","","","jkominoski@gmail.com","Final report (pdf)","","24" "Soil Organic Matter Dynamics: A Cross-Ecosystem Approach","","","Publications: 1) The group planned comparative analyses on soils from the Harvard Forest DIRT plots that will result in a special issue of Biogeochemistry by 2013. (In Process). Manuscripts: 2) Two papers are currently in preparation lead authors Heather Throop and Kim Townsend. Proposal: 3)Bormann. “LTREB”.","","","","lajthak@science.oregonstate.edu","Final report (pdf)","","14" "Synthesis Papers and Research Proposal from the Maps and Locals (MALS) Project","","","Posters: 1) Nguyen, T.T., Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., Gragson, T., Chamblee, J. and Pontius Jr, R.G. “Sensitivity of land cover analysis to category aggregation”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 2) Xiang, W., Pontius Jr., R.G., Onsted, J.A. “The Markov matrix versus the Duration, Category and Transition (DCT) matrix: a case study of land change in the Florida Coastal Ecosystems” Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010 3) Meng, F. “Method to Show the Level of Stationarity of a Land Change Process along a Gradient: Forest Regrowth at Hubbard Brook”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 4) Meng, F. “Land Change Process along Ecological Gradients: Forest Regrowth at Hubbard Brook, NH”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 5) Alpern, J. “Can Observed Differences Between Maps of Two Times be Explained by Error?”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 6) Si, K., McCune, M., Pontius Jr., R.G., Gosnell, H., “Land Change intensity analysis on Andrews, Oregon”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010 7) Si, K., McCune, M., Pontius Jr., R.G., Gosnell, H., “Land Change Intensity Analysis for H.J.Andrews, Oregon”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 8) Heburn, T. “Jornada LTER Site: Three Level Analysis of Land Category Change”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 9) Heburn, T. “Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Site: Conversion of Grassland to Shrubland”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 10) Wilson, N., Brandão Jr., A., Pontius Jr., R.G. “Konza Long Term Environmental Research Site: A Characterization of Land Change from 1990-2009”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010. 11) Zhang, E. “Assessment of Land Change Around Forest Conservation Areas in Luquillo, Puerto Rico”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010 12) Zhang, Y. “Analysis of Trends in Land Category Transitions for More Than Three Points in Time”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010 13) Zhang, Y. “Do Builders Consistently Target Forest from 1971 to 1999?”.Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010 14) Yao, Y. “Reconciling inconsistencies of maps that were created with different methods for 1999 and 2005”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.","Potentially all Sites plus sites in Scotland, France and Switzerland","","","gpkofinas@alaska.edu","Final report (pdf)","","29" "The Impacts of Within Season Rainfall Variability Across Ecosystems","","","Publication: Robinson, Todd M., La Pierre, Kimberly J., Vadeboncoeur, Matthew A., Byrne, Kerry M., Thomey, Michell L., and Colby, Samantha E. Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems. OIKOS Sept 25, 2012. DOI: 10.0000/j. 1600-0706.2012.20655.x Presentation: Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Austin, TX. 2011. Robinson, T.M.P., La Pierre, K.J., Vadeboncoeur, M. A., Byrne, K.M., Colby, S., and Thomey. M.L. “Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems.”","SEV, AND, HBR, KBS, KNZ, SBC, SGS, KNZ, VCR","","","robin590@msu.edu","Final report (pdf)","","13" "Towards a Predictive Understanding of Coastal Wetland Response to Sea Level Rise: Synthesis of Data to Test a Model of Tidal Marsh Accretion","","","Website: Climate Change in the Coastal Zone_MA 100909.pdf MEM II: http://jellyfish.geol.sc.edu/model/marsh/mem.asp Proposal: “Climate Change in the Coastal Zone”. NSF Macrosystems Biology Program. April 2011.","","","","ccraft@indiana.edu","Final report (pdf)","","13" "Collaborative development of a project database","","","Other products: A database was designed and built using an adapted version of the EML schema’s project module and the open-source native XML database, “eXist” (http://eXist-db.org)","","","","mob@msi.ucsb.edu","Final report (pdf)","","6" "Design challenges and Solutions for establishing a Network of Socio-ecological Research sites","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","29" "Ecosystem response to changing ice, snow and permafrost in a warming climate.","","","","","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","15" "Future Scenarios of land change","","","The influence of land use and climate change on forest biomass and composition in Massachusetts, USA 2011 Ecological Applications, 21(7), pp. 2425–2444 JONATHAN R. THOMPSON, DAVID R. FOSTER, ROBERT SCHELLER AND DAVID KITTREDGE A proposal was also prepared and submitted to Macrosystems, but was declined.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","25" "Long Term Hydrologic change: Disturbance legacies in material flux","","","Publication: Bain, D., Green, M., Campbell, J.L., et. al. Legacy Effect in Material Flux: Structural Catchment Changes Predate Long-Term Studies .2012. BioScience 62(6):575-584. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.8","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","21" "Socioecological dynamics of residential landscapes","","","Other products: An information-sharing network for continued discussions and collaborations, specifically through the establishment of a Google Groups website. Planned session(s) at the upcoming LTER All Scientists Meeting","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","19" "Workshop to promote synthesis products from the EcoTrends project","","","","","","","","","","9" "Catalyzing cross-site comparisons of microbial diversity and function","","","","","","","","Final Report PDF","","10" "Characterizing the nature of the LTER network","","","Publications: 1) Johnson J.C., Christian R.R., Brunt J.W., Hickman C.R., Waide. R.B. Evolution of Collaboration within the US Long Term Ecological Research Network. BioScience, Vol. 60, No. 11 (December 2010) (pp. 931-940).","VCR, LNO","","","christianr@ecu.edu","","","3" "Collaborative Research on Desertification between the Jornada Basin and Mongolian LTER","","","Publications: Damdinsuren, B, J. E. Herrick, D. A. Pyke, B. T. Bestelmeyer, and K. M. Havstad. 2008. Is rangeland health relevant to Mongolia? Rangelands 30: 25-29. Bestelmeyer, B. T., K. M. Havstad, B. Damindsuren, G. Han, J. R. Brown, J. E. Herrick, C. Steele, and D. Peters. 2009. Resilience theory in models of rangeland ecology and restoration: the evolution and application of a paradigm. Pp 78-95 in New Models of Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration (R. J. Hobbs and K. N. Suding, eds). Island Press, Covelo, CA. Website: Mongolia monitoring webpage http://jornada.nmsu.edu/content/%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB-1 Presentations: Attached two most recent delivered to Mongolian government agencies and international NGOs (UNDP, UNCCD, Swiss Development Corporation) for workshop on land degradation assessment, Ulaanbaatar, December 2011.","JRN","","","bbestelm@nmsu.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","2" "Ecology and Environmental Justice Research across the LTER Network: long-term and multi-scale understandings of past, present and future","","","Publications: 1) Pickett, S.T.A.,C.G. Boone and M.L. Cadenasso. Pickett, S.T.A., C. G. Boone and M. L Cadenasso. “Relationships of Environmental Justice to Ecological Theory.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, p. 166-170, vol. 88(2), (2007). 2)Pickett, S.T.A.,C.G. Boone and M.L. Cadenasso. “Ecology and Environmental Justice: Relationships to Ecological Theory.” Submitted to Ecology and Society (December 2007). Other products: Proposal: 3) C. G. Boone. “Ecology of environmental justice in metropolitan areas.” Submitted to NCEAS. 4)Boone, C. G., T. Gragson and S. Pickett (co-chairs) “Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought & Environmental Justice.” Ecological Society of America Millennium Conference Proposal. $50,000 (2009).","","","","jmgrove@gmail.com","","","11" "Ecosystem Services from Working Lands: Cross-site LTER Research","","","Publications: 1) C. Keske, D. Kittredge, C. Jolejole, D.A. Landis, R. Skaggs, S. Syswerda, and S.M. Swinton (contributing authors to date). “Working Lands Research for Diverse Ecosystem Services.” Manuscript in progress, targeted at BioScience or Science Reviews.","SGS, HFR, KBS, JRN","","","swintons@msu.edu","","","13" "Effects of N-fixing plants on diversity and species interactions","","","Publications: 1) Follstad Shah J. J., I. Ashton, E. Cleland, S. Emery, J. Fargione, E. Smithwick, and M. Spasojevic. Effects of N-fixers on non-N-fixer diversity and relative abundance in natural communities. Ecology Letters, to be submitted. 2) Emery, S., E. Smithwick, J. Fargione, J. J. Follstad Shah, I. Ashton, E. Cleland, M. Spasojevic. Temporal trends in N-fixer relative abundance in successional communities and their effects on soil nitrogen availability and species richness. Manuscript in preparation.","NWT, KBS, NWK","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","9" "Exploring the effect of scale-dependent processes on ecological systems using networked sensors","","","Publications: 1)Porter, J.H., P.C. Hanson, E.S. Nagy, T.K. Kratz, S.L. Collins and P. Arzberger. 2009. New eyes on the world: advanced sensors for ecology. BioScience 59:385-397.","VCR, NTL, LNO","","","","","","5" "Grass lands data Integration of aboveground net primary productivity across sites and time","","","Products: 1) Cushing, J.B., N.E. Kaplan, C. Laney, J. Mallett, K. Ramsey, K. Vanderbilt, L. Zeman, J. Gao, J. Kruger, C. Leroy, D.G. Milchunas, and E. Muldavin. 2008. Integrating Ecological Data: Notes from the Grasslands ANPP Data Integration Project. Proceedings of the 2008 Environmental Informational Management Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 10-11, 2008. Submitted 2) Vanderbilt, K., J.B. Cushing, C. Laney, C. Leroy, D.G. Milchunas, E. Muldavin, N.E. Kaplan, J. Mallett, K. Ramsey, L. Zeman, J. Gao, and J. Kruger. Grassland ANPP response to extreme events: a synthesis of ANPP data from North America, Africa, and China. 2008. In prep Other products: Software: 3) Mallett, J., Cushing, J.B., N.E. Kaplan, C. Laney, , K. Ramsey, K. Vanderbilt, L. Zeman, J. Gao, J. Kruger, C. Leroy, D. Milchunas, and E. Muldavin. 2008. Specifik software is an interactive tool to build a species code table that cross-references site-specific species codes to the PLANTS species codes. http://alala.evergreen.edu/~mallettj/specifik/ Database: 4) The GDI database, as of March 20, 2008, contained 113,500 distinct NPP observations from five sites, and was 73 MB in size, approx. 4,126,700 grams measured over 20 years in 1697 plots. It is now available upon request from Lee Zeman (zemanl@evergreen.edu) or Kristin Vanderbilt (vanderbi@sevilleta.unm.edu), assuming the Jornada scientists will release it to the requester. Posters: 5) Kaplan, N.E., K. Vanderbilt, L. Zeman, Cushing, J.B., C. Laney, J. Mallett, K. Ramsey, J. Gao, J. Kruger, C. Leroy, D.G. Milchunas, and E. Muldavin. 2008. A Team Approach to Data Synthesis: The Playbook for Creating a Centralized, Dynamic, and Sustainable ANPP Database. LTER Regional Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 11-12, 2008. 6) Cushing, J.B., J. Gao, N. Kaplan, J. Kruger, C. Laney, C. Leroy, K. Ramsey, K. Vanderbilt, L. Zeman, A. Knapp, D. Michunas, and E. Muldavin. 2007. Integrating LTER Grasslands ANPP Data: Lessons Learned, Poster presented at the LTER Information Managers Meeting, San Jose, CA. Popular Press and Newsletters: 7) Ramsey, K. and N.E. Kaplan. 2008. Specifik, a Taxonomic Reference Tool to Support Synthesis of Vegetation Data. LTER Databits, Spring 2008. Vanderbilt, K. J.B. Cushing, N.E. Kaplan, J. Kruger, C. Laney, C. LeRoy, J. Mallett, D.G. Milchunas, E. Muldavin, K. Ramsey, L. Zeman. 2008. PositionIT magazine. Submitted.","JRN, SGS","","","Nicole.Kaplan@colostate.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","11" "Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and environmental gradients to understand community organization at local and continental scales","","","Publications: 1) Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kozak, P. Fine, and S. Kembel. Phylogenetic approaches in community ecology. invited review for Ecology Letters. 2) Willis, C. G., M. Halina, C. Lehman, P. B. Reich, A. Keen, S. McCarthy J. Cavender-Bares. (2010). Community phylogenetic structure in Minnesota oak savanna is influenced by spatial extent and environmental heterogeneity. Ecography 32: 565-577. 3)Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, David D. Ackerly, and Kenneth H. Kozak. 2012. Integrating ecology and phylogenetics: the footprint of history in modern-day communities1. Ecology 93:S1–S3 4)Beaulieu, Jeremy M., Richard H. Ree, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, George D. Weiblen, and Michael J. Donoghue. 2012. Synthesizing phylogenetic knowledge for ecological research. Ecology 93:S4–S13 5)Peres-Neto, Pedro R., Mathew A. Leibold, and Stéphane Dray. 2012. Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics. Ecology 93:S14–S30 6)Helmus, Matthew R., and Anthony R. Ives. 2012. Phylogenetic diversity–area curves. Ecology 93:S31–S43 7)Knapp, Sonja, Lucy Dinsmore, Cinzia Fissore, Sarah E. Hobbie, Ina Jakobsdottir, Jens Kattge, Jennifer Y. King, Stefan Klotz, Joseph P. McFadden, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional characteristics of household yard floras and their changes along an urbanization gradient. Ecology 93:S83–S98 8)Savage, Jessica A., and Jeannine Cavender-Bares. 2012. Habitat specialization and the role of trait lability in structuring diverse willow (genus Salix) communities. Ecology 93:S138–S150 9) Cadotte, Marc W., Russell Dinnage, and David Tilman. 2012. Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability. Ecology 93:S223–S233 10)Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kozak, P. Fine, and S. Kembel. (2009). The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. (Review and Synthesis) /Ecology Letters, /12: 693-715 Other products: 11)Press Release for article on “Merging community ecology and phylogenetic biology” Cavender-Bares et al 2009; Science Direct, Cedar Creek website, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis website, Ecology Letters website 12) Funded NCEAS working group: $120,000 (see report at: http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/.) One graduate student and three post-docs are participating in this working group. 13) An Encyclopedia of Life workshop to train students in ""megaphylogeny"" assembly, held at the Field Museum in Chicago, April 2008 (http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/documents/megatree-grafting-works... ). 14) A software tool ""Phylografter"" (Richard Ree) for building well-documented ""megaphylogenies"" was also developed. Media/Internet Coverage 15)Tale of Two Scientific Fields--Ecology and Phylogenetics--Offers New Views of Earth's Biodiversity http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125048 16)Ecology branches into the tree of life http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/ecology-branches-into-the-tree-of-life/ 17)Backyard Biodiversity https//www.cbs.umn.edu/cbs-highlights/field/backyard-biodiversity 18)Live Fast, Die Young: Urban Plants Are More Closely Related and Live Shorter Lives Than Plants in the Countryside http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418095311.htm 19)News From the Field: Live Fast, Die Young http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123978&org=EF&from=news 20)Live fast, die young http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2012/UR_CONTENT_382621.html http://www.peer.eu/news-events/detail/?tx_list_pi1[uid]=242 http://www.biotechmashup.com/beta/Biology/Live_fast_die_young/related_links http://www.handsnet.org/live-fast-die-young/ https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/fisica_teorica/WmaGYMVY6pk http://english.scienceweek.cz/live-fast-die-young-iid-394128 http://www.agrotimes.com/Tags/plants_April_2012.asphttp://www.agrotimes.... http://www.agrotimes.com/Archives/April_2012.asp http://environment.umn.edu/news_events/index.html 21)Access Minnesota Television interview: Differences Between Rural and Urban Plant Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-2FruAq66w 22)Online interview for Science Watch: “Jeannine Cavender-Bares on Ecology & Phylogenetic Biology”, New Hot Paper Commentary, September 2010 http://www.sciencewatch.com/dr/nhp/2010/10sepnhp/10sepnhpCave/ 23)Press Release for article on “Merging community ecology and phylogenetic biology” Cavender-Bares et al 2009; Science Direct, Cedar Creek website, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis website, Ecology Letters website http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519075422.htm 24)Interview (Jul., 2009) Stephanie Xenos, College of Biological Science, for article on community ecology and phylogenetic biology","CDR, CWT, SGS, KNZ, BNZ, NWT","","","cavender@umn.edu","","","14" "Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream ecosystems","","","Publications: 1) Sinsabaugh, R.L. and J.J. Follstad Shah. 2010. Integrating resource utilization and temperature in metabolicscaling of riverine bacterial production. Ecology 91(5): 1455-1465. 2) Follstad Shah, J. J., E. S. Bernhardt, R. Hall, A. Huryn, P. Mulholland, B. Roberts, and H. M. Valett. Temperature dependence of whole-stream metabolic rates and its effects on in-stream carbon cycling. Freshwater Biology, to be submitted.","SEV, HBR, ARC, CWT, NWK","","","huryn@bama.ua.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","11" "Patterns and Consequences of Shrub Encroachment across North America","","","Publications: 1) A Knapp, J Briggs, S Collins, S Archer, m S Bret-Harte, B Ewers, D Peters, D Young, G Shaver, E Pendall M Cleary. “Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystems carbon inputs.” Global Change Biology, p. 615-623, vol. 14, (2008). appended here in related documents Other Products: 2) Formed basis of 2006 LTER Mini-symposium at NSF","LNO, JRN, BNZ, KNZ, CAP","","","alan.knapp@colostate.edu / John.Briggs@asu.edu","","","6" "Phenology across LTER","","","Publications: 1) Henebry, G., J. Anderson, M. Losleben, J. O’Keefe, D. Shaw, K. Vanderbilt, K. Wetherill and J. Zimmerman. “Phenology across LTER.” Manuscript in preparation. 2) Morisette, J.T., A.D. Richardson, A.K. Knapp, J.I. Fisher, E.A. Graham, J. Abatzoglou, B.E. Wilson, D.D. Breshears, G.M. Henebry, J.M. Hanes, and L. Liang. 2009. Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(5): 253-260. Other Products: Posters: 3) Henebry, GM. 2007. Phenology across the LTER network: Initial findings, future directions. EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B51A-0041. 4) Losleben MV. 2008. Phenology of Net Ecosystem Exchange: A simple estimation method. EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B51A-0040. 5) Shaw DC, C Creel, G Downing, S Remillard, and K O'Connell. 2007. Plant phenology patterns at three sites on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, 1987 to 2007. EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B51A-0039. Presentations: 6) Bradley B, K Wetherill, K Vanderbilt, and J Nickeson. 2007. Integrating ground observations of phenology with remotely sensed measurements: A 2007 growing season experiment at Sevilleta LTER. EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B53D-04. 7)Co-presented with K. de Beurs on April 8, 2008 in Madison, WI A Workshop on Land Surface Phenology [see attached announcement pdf]. My presentation was based on some of materials I developed for the LTER workshop. These workshop files are now available at the USA-NPN website: http://www.usanpn.org/?q=node/154. LTER Phenology Data Matrix.","KNZ, KWT, HFR, JRN, AND, SEV, LUQ, FCE","","","Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu","","","9" "Polyphenols across the LTER: assessing fractions, forms and functions","","","Other products: Poster: 1) Caldwell, B.A., K. Lajtha, K. Townsend, J. Frentress, and S.E. Crow. “Reactive Polyphenolics: Adding function to DOM. American Geophysical Union. 2007.  2) Rasmussen, J., K. Lajtha, and B.A. Caldwell. 2008, Reactive Polyphenols and Dissolved Nutrients in a Nitrogen-Limited Headwater Catchment in Western Oregon, USA. International Humic Substances Society, Russia., August 2008. Pending Talk: 3) Rasmussen, J., K. Lajtha, and B.A. Caldwell. 2008. Reactive Polyphenols and Dissolved Nutrients in a Nitrogen Limited Headwater Catchment, Western Cascades, Oregon"" Humic Substances and Technology Conf, (Northeastern University, Apr 2008). Review Paper: 4) A review and synthesis paper for submission to Biogeochemistry was begun with key contributions by Anne","AND, LUQ, NWT, KBS, HFR, CWT","","","","","","18" "Status and Trends of ecosystems services: A Cross-Site comparison of LTER Sites","","","Publications: 1) Carpenter, Chapin, Kapoor, Kinzig and Perrings. “Critical Ecosystem Services: A nationwide perspective.” Manuscript in preparation","LTER NETWORK","","","fffsc@uaf.edu","","","27" "The influence of changes in terrestrial plant community structure on aquatic ecosystem function across the LTER network","","","Publications: 1) Ball, B.A., J.S. Kominoski, H.E. Adams, S.E. Jones, E.S. Kane, T.D. Loecke, W. Mahaney, J. Martina, C.M. Prather, T.M.P. Robinson, C.T. Solomon. 2010. Direct and terrestrial vegetation-mediated effects of environmental change on aquatic ecosystemprocesses. BioScience 60:590-601. 2)Special feature in Mammalogy due at the end of 2008 3) Webpage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~beckyball/terraq/workgroup.html Other products: Symposium at the 2008 meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists.","ARC, MCM, GCE, NTL, CWT, KBS","","","jkominos@uga.edu","Final Report (PDF)","","17" "Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems","","","Publications: 1) Special feature in Mammalogy due at the end of 2008 Other products: 2) Symposium at the 2008 meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists.","SEV, SGS","","","pstapp@fullerton.edu","Final Report (.pdf)","","5" "Trends in Long Term Ecological Data Working Group","","","","HBR, BES, AND, NTL, JRN, LUQ, CCE, NWK, GCE","","","debpeter@nmsu.edu","","","6" "Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products","","","Publication: 1) Sheldon, W.M. “Dynamic, Rule-based Quality Control Framework for Real-Time Sensor Data.” Proceedings of the 2008 Ecological Information Management Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Paper accepted Other products: Proposal: 2) Burd, A. and W. Sheldon. “prRAMID – Python Application for Real-Time Access to Metadata Integrated Datasets.” Proposal to the Marine Ecosystem-Based Management Tool Innovation Fund. (status: pre-proposal accepted, final proposal declined)   3)Software: GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB (http://gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/im/tools/data_toolbox.htm) • Two working group sessions were held at the 2007 LTER Information Managers meeting in San Jose, Ca: o QA/QC for Real-time Data (Sheldon and Henshaw) o QA/QC for Metadata and Data Synthesis (Sheldon and Henshaw) • An ad hoc QA/QC IMC working group and mailing list was established to follow up on issues raised in these workshops","NWT, CAP, NWK, NTL, JRN, SBC, CGE","","","sheldon@uga.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","10" "Continuation of Fertilization Synthesis","","","Publication: Sandel B, Goldstein LJ, Kraft NJ, Okie JG,Shuldman MI,Ackerly DD, Cleland EE, Suding KN. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 188: 565-575 (2010). Spasojevic MJ, Aicher RJ, Koch GR, Marquardt ES, Mirotchnick N, Troxler TG^,Collins SL. Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits. ECOLOGY 91: 1651-1659. (2010). Collins SL, Suding KN, Cleland EE, Batty M, Pennings SC, Gross KL, Grace JB, Gough L,Fargione JE, Clark CM*. Rank clocks and plant community dynamics. ECOLOGY 89: 3534-3541. (2008) Chalcraft DR, Cox SB, Clark CM; Cleland EE, Suding KN, Weiher E, Pennington D. Scale-dependent responses of plant biodiversity to nitrogen enrichment. ECOLOGY 89: 2165-2171. (2008). Clark, C. M., E. E. Cleland, S. L. Collins, J. E. Fargione, L. Gough, K. L. Gross, S. C. Pennings, K. N. Suding and J. B. Grace. “Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment.” Ecology Letters, p. 596-607, vol. 10, (2007). Cleland, E. E., C. M. Clark, S. L. Collins, J. E. Fargione, L. Gough, K. L. Gross, D. G. Milchunas, S. C. Pennings, W. D. Bowman, I. C. Burke, W. K. Lauenroth, G. P. Robertson, J. C. Simpson, D. Tilman and K. N. Suding. “Species responses to nitrogen fertilization in herbaceous plant communities, and associated species traits.” Ecology, p 1175, vol. 89(4), (2008).","GCE, NWK, CDR","","","ksuding@uci.edu","","","8" "Cross-site Synthesis of Soil Microbial Enzymes in Response to N Deposition","","","Publications: 1) Allison, S., M. N. Weintraub, K. Holland, T. B. Gartner and M. P. Waldrop. “Optimal resource allocation in microbial systems.” Manuscript submitted as a Synthesis article in AM Nat. 2) Sinsabaugh, R., C. Lauber, M. Weintraub, B. Ahmed, S. Allison, C. Crenshaw, A. Contosta, D. Cusack, S. Frey, M. Gallo, T. Gartner, S. Hobbie, K. Holland, B. Keeler, J. Powers, M. Stursova, C. Takacs-Vesbach, M. Waldrop, M. Wallenstein, D. ZaK and L. Zeglin. 2008. “Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale.” Ecology Letters 13:1-13","KBS, SEV","","","clauber@unm.edu","","","9" "Importance of Consumer-driven Nutrient Recycling in Streams Across a Climatic Gradient - San Juan, PR","","","Publication: 1) Benstead, J.B., W. Cross, A. Ramirez, and J.G. March. “Magnitude and implications of nutrient recycling by decapods in tropical streams.” To be submitted to Freshwater Biology.","INT. CWT, LUQ","","","alonso_ites@yahoo.com","Final Report (pdf)","","8" "Shrub Dynamics: A Cross-Site Examination for Patterns & Consequences","","","Publications: 1) D. P. Peters, D. R. Young, G. R. Shaver, E. Pendall and M. B. Cleary. “Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystems carbon inputs.” Global Change Biology, p. 615-623, vol. 14, (2008). Other Products: 2) Formed basis of 2006 LTER Mini-symposium at NSF","VCR, KNZ, CAP JRN","","","alan.knapp@colostate.edu / John.Briggs@asu.edu","","","3" "The response of watershed nitrogen retention to large-scale climate disturbance across the LTER network.","","","Publication: 1) Kane, E. S., E. F. Betts, A. J. Burgin, H. M. Cliverd, C. L. Crenshaw, J. B. Fellman, I.H. Myers-Smith, J. A. O’Donnell, D. J. Sobota, W.J. Van Verseveld and J. B. Jones. “Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research.” Ecohydrology, P105-117, vol 1, (2008). 2)W. J. van Verseveld, E. S. Kane, D. J. Sobota,I. H. Myers-Smith and J. B. Fellman5. Reply to comment on ‘Kane et al. 2008. Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1: 105–117’. Ecohydrology, Published Online (2010). 3)Lajtha, K. and Jones, J. Comment on ‘Kane et al. 2008. Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1(2): 105–117’. Ecohydrology, Published online (2010).","KBS, BNZ","","","ftesk@uaf.edu","","","9" "Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones","","","","LUQ, KNZ, AND, CWT","","","judith.li.oregonstate.edu","","","7" "Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM)","","","Publications: 1) Jaffe´, R., D. McKnight, N. Maie, R. Cory, W. H. McDowell, and J. L. Campbell (2008), Spatial and temporal variations in DOM composition in ecosystems: The importance of long-term monitoring of optical properties, J. Geophys. Res., 113, G04032,doi:10.1029/2008JG000683.","VCR, HBR, ARC, SBC, AND, BNZ, LUQ, NWT","","","","","","15" "Decline of Dominant Species Due to Invasive Pests & Pathogens","","","Publication: 1) Ellison, A. M., M. S. Bank, B. D. Clinton, E. A. Colburn, K. Elliott, C. R. Ford, D. R. Foster, B. D. Kloeppel, J. D. Knoepp, G. M. Lovett, J. Mohan, D. A. Orwig, N. L. Rodenhouse, W. V. Sobczak, K. A. Stinson, J. K. Stone, C. M. Swan, J. Thompson, B. von Holle, and J. R. Webster. 2005. Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 479-486.","CWT, HBR","","","drfoster@fas.harvard.edu","","","10" "Disturbance & Variance: Detecting Change in Terrestrial & Aquatic Ecosystems","","","Publications: 1) Fraterrigo, J. and J. Rusak. “Disturbance-driven changes in the variability of ecological patterns and processes.” Ecology Letters, p. 756-770, vol. 11, (2008). Other products: Unsuccessful proposal to NCEAS: 2) Rusak, J., J. Fraterrigo and M. Turner. “Disturbance-driven changes in ecosystem variability: a new paradigm for understanding ecological dynamics.”","BNZ, JRN, NTL","","","jarusak@wisc.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","8" "Functional Response to Resource Change across LTER Sites (Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones)","","","Publication: Pennings, SC, Clark CM, Cleland EE, Collins SL, Gough L, Gross KL, Milchunas DG, Suding KN. 2005. Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments? OIKOS 110: 547-555. Suding, KN, Collins SL, Gough L, Clark CM, Cleland EE, Gross KL, Milchunas DG, Pennings SC. 2005. Functional and abundance based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to nitrogen fertilization. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 102: 4387-4392. Cleland EE, Clark CM, Collins SL, Fargione JE, Gough L, Gross KL, Pennings SC, Suding KN. Native and exotic species have different suites of traits: Evidence from a synthesis of nitrogen fertilization experiments. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY: in review. Other Products: Proposal to NCEAS.","","","","ksuding@uci.edu","Final report (pdf)","","7" "Long-term Effects of Land Use History on Carbon & Water Balance","","","Publications: Manuscript in preparation","BES, AND, LUQ, CWT","","","tgragson@uga.edu","Final Report","","7" "LTER -Based Student Research Symposium to Stimulate Cross-Site Student Lead Collaboration","","","Other Products: Successful proposal to NSF: D. L. Childers. “LTER Student Collaborative Research Symposium.” (March 11 2004).","FCE, VCR, PAL, LUQ","","","daoust@biol.sc.edu","","","7" "LTER Education Outreach","","","Two unsuccessful proposals to NSF","KBS, JRN, NTL, CAP, BES, NWK, HFR, SBC","","","mcgee@lponline.net","","","11" "LTER Extreme Events Working Group","","","Publication: 1) Goodin, D.G. and Losleben, M. 2005. Climatology of extreme precipitation events at Long Term Ecological Research Sites. in: Proceedings of the 2005 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, 15-19 May, 2005. Anchorage, AK. Other Products: Presentations: 2) Goodin, D.G. 2007. Extreme events and landscape phenology: Past and future prospects for climate change research at LTER sites. Presented at the Annual Meeting, The Wildlife Society, Tucson, AZ September, 2007. 3) Goodin, D.G. And Losleben, M. 2005. Climatology of extreme precipitation events at Long Term Ecological Research sites. Paper presented at ASCE Environmental Water Resources Institute World Water Congress, May, 2005, Anchorage, AK. Articles/Chapters in Preparation: 4) Goodin, D.G and Henebry, G.M. Extreme events and landscape phenology: climate change and landscape response at selected LTER sites. Invited Book Chapter (Volume name TBA). In preparation.","CAP, KNZ, HFR, BNZ, CWT, SGS, NWT","","","dgoodin@ksu.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","9" "LTER Workshop on Litter Decomposition Synthesis","","","Other Products: 1)Manuscript in preparation: González G. and D. Coleman. “The hidden drivers of decomposition.”","CWT, LUQ, SGS","","","ggonzalez@fs.fed.us","","","5" "Metapopulation dynamics and Meta Community Structure","","","Publication: 1) Heatherly, T. N., M. R. Whiles, D. J. Gibson, S. L. Collins, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, and M. A. Palmer. Stream insect occupancy-frequency patterns and metapopulation structure. Oecologia 151:313-321. (2007). Other products: Presentations: 2) Heatherly, T. N., M. R. Whiles, D. J Gibson, S. L Collins, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, and M. Palmer. 2005. Stream insect distributional patterns and metapopulation models: effects of spatial scale and sampling intensities. Annual Meeting of the North American Benthological Society, New Orleans. 3) Whiles, M. R., D. J. Gibson, S. L. Collins, T. N. Heatherly, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, R. O. Hall, and M. A. Palmer. 2004. Application of the core-satellite metapopulation model to stream insect data sets: patterns in space and time. Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society, Vancouver, British Columbia. Posters: 4) Heatherly, T. N., S. L. Collins, M. R. Whiles, D. J. Gibson, A. D. Huryn, J. K. Jackson, R. O. Hall, and M. A. Palmer. 2004. Metacommunity structure in regional assemblages of stream macroinvertebrates. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon.","KNZ, ARC","","","","","","4" "N Deposition to Forested Ecosystems","","","Final Report","CWT, CDR, AND, HFR, NWT, INT","","","hsieveri@carbon.cudenver.edu","","","9" "Performing Network-level Synthesis by Quantifying Ecosystem Goods and Services (LTER Synthesis Workshop)","","","Other Products: Manuscript: 1) Wilson, M., D. Childers, T. Gragson, M. Grove, J. Roach, D. Rudnick, F. Sklar, S. Swinton, A. Troy, and P. Warren. “An Integrative Framework for Ecosystem Services Research and Education across the LTER Network.” (2005)","","","","wilson@bsad.uvm.edu","Final report (pdf)","","10" "Species Richness in Space and Time","","","Publication: 1) Adler, P. B., E. P. White, W. K. Lauenroth, D. M. Kaufman, A. Rassweiller and J. A. Rusak. “Evidence for a general species-time –area relationship.” Ecology, p. 2032-2039, vols. 86(8), (2005). 2) White, E. P., P. B. Adler, W. K. Lauenroth, R. A. Gill, D. Greenberg, D. M. Kaufman, A. Rassweiler, J. A. Rusak, M. D..Smith, J. R. Steinbeck, R. B. Waide, and J. Yao. ""A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups."" Oikos, p.185-195, vol. 112, (2006).","KNZ, SGS, SBC, NTL, JRN","","","BillL@cnr.colostate.edu","","","8" "Synthetic Effort to Characterize the Controls on Nitrogen Transportation through Streams & Rivers","","","Other Products: Workshop report provided input into formation of STREON","KNZ, HBR, KBS, AND, NWK, PIE","","","wkdodds@ksu.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","10" "A Functional Approach to Predicting Species Response to N Fertilization across LTER Sites","","","","CDR, KBS, SGS, GCE, NWT","","","","","","6" "Further Development of the Legacies Concept in LTER","","","","","","","","","","8" "Geospatial team","","","","","","","","","","4" "LINX-2 Workshop","","","","","","","","","","15" "Proposed initiative for cross-site integration of coastal watershed research","","","","","","","","","","" "A Cross-Site Synthesis of Biotic and Abiotic Agents of Decomposition and SOM Dynamics in LTER Sites","","","Products: Presentations: 1)Dave Coleman presented two papers on CWT, LTREB and Network decomposition studies in Taipei, Taiwan in August, 2002 Manuscript: 2)Manuscript to Soil Science Reviews Proposal: 3)Proposal to be submitted early 2004 4)Proposal to NSF Ecosystem Studies Other: 5)Workshops","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","9" "Advancing the Sharing and Synthesis of Ecological Data: Guidelines for Data Sharing and Integration","","","Products: Other: 1) Second draft of paper on “Partnerships” based on outline provided by Benson/Olson from the ASM workshop 2) Draft of review paper of past successes and problems in synthesis work – standards, harmonization, QA/QC, etc. – focus on NPP and other LTER efforts 3) White paper on evaluation of how to get scientists to use standard methods and metadata etc. in anticipation of synthesis activities and archiving data 4) Draft of standards and harmonization working plan for NPP measurements to support LTER cross-site studies","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","15" "Causes and Consequences of Invasive Species; Past and Future Contributions of the LTER Network","","","","","","","","","","5" "Defining the Schoolyard LTER Program: Priorities, Infrastructure, and Communications","","","","","","","","","","8" "East Asia Conference","","","","","","","","","","9" "East Asia-Pacific Organic Matter Decomposition Processes Workshop","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","9" "Ecological Network Analysis for Cross Site Comparisons: Developing the Network of Users","","","Products: Proposals: 1)Three proposals were submitted to NCEAS 2)One proposal was submitted by Vernet to JGOFS 3)Oct. 2000-Sep. 2002. National Science Foundation. Biocomplexity-Incubation Activity Networking the “Invisible Colleges”: Application of Network Theory to Biocompexity. (R. R. Christian with Jeffery Johnson, Joseph Luczkovich and Steve orgatti)($49,125) 4)June 2003-May 2004. National Science Foundation. Evaluation of Ecological Network Analysis Using Stable Isotopes. (R.R. Christian. Dissertation Improvement Grant for James Dame with Dame as Co-PI)($9,000) 5)Sep. 2003- NRC Post-doctoral fellowship. Network Analysis and Management Practices of Impounded Marshes at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. (C. R. Thomas.Funded) Presentations: 6)Morris, J. T., R. Christian, R. Ulanowicz. 2001. Complexity and the ecological properties of randomly constructed stable food webs. Abstract of presentation made at the 16th International Biennial Estuarine Research Federation Conference, St.Petersburg, FL, Nov. 6. 7)Morris, J. T., R. Christian, R. Ulanowicz. 2002. Size, complexity and function of theoretical and real food webs. Abstract of presentation made at the 86th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Aug. 4-9, Tuscon. 8)Morris, J.T., R. Christian, R. Ulanowicz. 2002. Food web size, complexity and function. Abstract of invited presentation made at the Southeastern Estuarine Research Federation meeting. Conway, SC. Oct 17-19. 9)B.C. Patten, S. R. Borrett, S.J. Whipple, R.R. Christian, and C. R.Thomas. 2003. Discrete-Time Dynamic Environ Analysis of Indirect Effects in Ecological Networks: Basic Considerations Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA Manuscripts: 10)Robert Daniels. Inverse Model Analysis of Plankton Food Webs in the North Atlantic and Western Antarctic Peninsula. MS thesis. College of William and Mary, August 20, 2003 11)James K. Dame. Evaluation of network analysis as an approach for studying food webs and managing coastal systems. Ph.D. dissertation. East Carolina University. To be completed May 2004.","","","","","Final Report (pdf)","","14" "Effects of Decomposing Woods on Soil Carbon Accumulation and Chemistry, Fungal Diversity and Microbial Enzyme Systems","","","","","","","","","","9" "Integrating LTER Research into Ecosystem Management","","","","","","","","","","7" "Integration of Research on Biogeochemicalcycles at LTER sites","","","","","","","","","","3" "LTER-based Tropical Coastal Research Across the Caribbean Basin","","","","","","","","","","13" "NPP Data Workshop","","","Publication: 1)Fahey and Knapp (eds). 2007. Principles and Standards for Measuring Primary Production. Oxford","","","","","","","10" "Preliminary Synthesis of Species Removal Experiments: Follow-up to the ASM ""LTER/GCTE Workshop on Removal Experiments on the Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Functioning""","","","","","","","","","","13" "Regulation of Organic Matter Preservation in Soils and Sediments","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","13" "Scaling Carbon Flux to the Site Level in the Context of Validating Products from Earth Observing Satellites","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","8" "Scaling From Plots to Landscapes and Regions: Relevance of Landscapes to Current Issues in Ecology","","","","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","28" "Sense-of-Place Attitudes in the World's Temperate Lake Districts","","","Publications: 1)Stedman, R.C., R.C. Lathrop, B. Clark, J. Ejsmont-Karabin, P. Kasprzak, K. Nielsen, D. Osgood, M. Powell, A.-M. Ventelä, K.E. Webster and A. Zhukova. 2007. Perceived environmental quality and place attachment in North American and European temperate lake districts. Lake and Reserv. Manage. 23:330-344.","","","","","Final report (pdf)","","11" "The Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET)","","","","","","","","","","6" "A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions","","","","ARC, BES , CWT, FCE , and MCM","","","sokole@vt.edu","","","3" "CANCELED-A Workshop to establish a large forest plot network across LTER and NEON sites","","","","","","","j.thompson@jiom@ceh.ac.uk","","","" "Coastal Zone Climate Changes: Understanding and adaptation","","","","","","","malber@uga.edu","","","12" "DIRT - continuation of C1 meetings","","","Other products: Proposals: 1) LTREB: Long-term detrital controls on soil organic matter stabilization $400,000 (NSF DEB-0817064; Kate Lajtha PI; co-PI Caldwell). Funded. 2)Second proposal submitted to NSF. Workshops: 3) Special session for AGU: Soil Carbon: Mechanisms of Stabilization, .American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2007, Lajtha and Cavallero, session organizers. Workshop not held","AND","","","lajthak@science.oregonstate.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","3" "Disappearing Cryosphere: Socioecological Consequences for Ecosystem services","","","","","","","hducklow@mbl.edu","","","4" "Inland Climate Change: Social and Ecological Sensitivities and Responses","","","1) Proposal to NSF: Green Macrosystems","5 LTER sites and several NEON sites","","","Alan.Knapp@ColoState.EDU","","","13" "Landscape Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change and Land Use Change","","","Publication: 1)Thompson, J. R.; Wiek, A.; Swanson, F. J.; Carpenter, S. R.; Fresco, N.; Hollingsworth, T.; Spies, T. A.; and Foster, D. R. “Scenario Studies as a Synthetic and Integrative Research Activity for Long-Term Ecological Research.” BioScience Vol. 62 No. 4, April 2012. Proposal: 2)“Future Scenarios of Forest Change in the United States”. Macrosystem NSF.","","","","dfoster@lternet.edu","Final Report (pdf)","","6" "Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and environmental gradients to understand community organization at local and continental scales","","","Publications: 1) Cavender-Bares, J., K. Kozak, P. Fine, and S. Kembel. Phylogenetic approaches in community ecology. invited review for Ecology Letters. 2) Willis, C. G., J. Cavender-Bares, M. Halina, C. Lehman, P. B. Reich, A. Keen, and S. McCarthy. The temporal and spatial dynamics of community structure in Minnesota oak savanna: A phylogenetic perspective. American Naturalist (invited for resubmission) Other products: 3) Funded NCEAS working group: $120,000 (see report at: http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/.) One graduate student and three post-docs are participating in this working group. 4) An Encyclopedia of Life workshop to train students in ""megaphylogeny"" assembly, held at the Field Museum in Chicago, April 2008 (http://ecophylogenetics.nceas.ucsb.edu/documents/megatree-grafting-works... ). 5) A software tool ""Phylografter"" (Richard Ree) for building well-documented ""megaphylogenies"" was also developed.","CDR, KNZ, BNZ, LUQ","","","cavender@umn.edu","","","11" "TRENDS","","","Publications: 1) Our Changing World: Long Term Trends in Ecological Systems. Peters, D. P. C. et al. in preparation. 2) Peters, DPC & CM Laney. 2006. EcoTrends in long-term ecological research project. Jornada Trails 10(1): 2. 3) Laney, CM & DPC Peters. 2006. EcoTrends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a collaborative synthesis project, introduction and update. Databits Spring 2006. Other products: Presentations: 4) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney, organizers of the evening session, Trends in Long Term Ecological Research: opportunities and challenges in the synthesis of long term data. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 5) Peters, D.P.C. Opportunities for network-level analyses emerging from the TRENDS project. Plenary session talk, LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 6) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends: The adventure continues. Annual LTER Information Management Meeting, San Jose, CA, August 2007. Posters: 7) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. Trends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 8) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. EcoTrends: A multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, San Jose, TN. August 2007. Other products: Working Groups: 9) Laney, C.M., K. Ramsey and M. Servilla. Information management issues and the Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible. LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 10) Servilla, M. Trends Project: Spaghetti & Linguine (aka Trends Data Store). LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 11) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends approach to re-sampling, integrating incomplete, qualified primary data. LTER Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products. Las Cruces, NM, February 2007. Website: http://www.ecotrends.info/EcoTrends/ .","HBR, BES, AND, NTL, JRN, LUQ, CCE, NWK, GCE","","","","","","21" "Trends-2007","","","Publications: 1) Our Changing World: Long Term Trends in Ecological Systems. Peters, D. P. C. et al. in preparation. Peters, DPC & CM Laney. 2006. EcoTrends in long-term ecological research project. Jornada Trails 10(1): 2. 2) Laney, CM & DPC Peters. 2006. EcoTrends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a collaborative synthesis project, introduction and update. Databits Spring 2006. Other products: Presentations: 3) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney, organizers of the evening session, Trends in Long Term Ecological Research: opportunities and challenges in the synthesis of long term data. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 4) Peters, D.P.C. Opportunities for network-level analyses emerging from the TRENDS project. Plenary session talk, LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. Laney, C.M. EcoTrends: The adventure continues. Annual LTER Information Management Meeting, San Jose, CA, August 2007. Posters: 5) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. Trends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 6) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. EcoTrends: A multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, San Jose, TN. August 2007. Other products: Working Groups: 7) Laney, C.M., K. Ramsey and M. Servilla. Information management issues and the Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible. LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 8) Servilla, M. Trends Project: Spaghetti & Linguine (aka Trends Data Store). LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 9) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends approach to re-sampling, integrating incomplete, qualified primary data. LTER Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products. Las Cruces, NM, February 2007. Website: http://www.ecotrends.info/EcoTrends/","HBR, LUQ, NTL, CCE, BES, JRN","","","","","","10" "TRENDS-remove","","","Publications: 1) Our Changing World: Long Term Trends in Ecological Systems. Peters, D. P. C. et al. in preparation. 2) Peters, DPC & CM Laney. 2006. EcoTrends in long-term ecological research project. Jornada Trails 10(1): 2. 3) Laney, CM & DPC Peters. 2006. EcoTrends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a collaborative synthesis project, introduction and update. Databits Spring 2006. Other products: Presentations: 4) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney, organizers of the evening session, Trends in Long Term Ecological Research: opportunities and challenges in the synthesis of long term data. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 5) Peters, D.P.C. Opportunities for network-level analyses emerging from the TRENDS project. Plenary session talk, LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 6) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends: The adventure continues. Annual LTER Information Management Meeting, San Jose, CA, August 2007. Posters: 7) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. Trends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006. 8) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. EcoTrends: A multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, San Jose, TN. August 2007. Other products: Working Groups: 9) Laney, C.M., K. Ramsey and M. Servilla. Information management issues and the Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible. LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 10) Servilla, M. Trends Project: Spaghetti & Linguine (aka Trends Data Store). LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006. 11) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends approach to re-sampling, integrating incomplete, qualified primary data. LTER Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products. Las Cruces, NM, February 2007. Website: http://www.ecotrends.info/EcoTrends/ .","HBR, BES, NTL, JRN, LUQ, CCE, NWK, GCE","","","debpeter@nmsu.edu","","",""