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The LTER is unique in Ecology: we have the capacity to get new students into the field, give them training and experience, then support them through postdoc positions all the way through tenured faculty. That means we have a particularly deep well of experience with Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers, the theme of this year’s Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. You’ll find aspects of all this work alongside a wealth of foundational ecological research, and much more in the list of LTER talks, sessions, and posters that follows.

Please use this compilation to seek out and support colleagues, learn what’s happening in the Network, and definitely stop by the LTER/EDI exhibit booth to say hello!

If we missed your session, please fill out the form below and we will add it to the list. And remember, including “LTER” or “Long-Term Ecological Research” in conference abstracts will help us find your talk.

LTER/EDI Exhibit Booth

The LTER Network Office and the Environmental Data Initiative will be sharing a booth at ESA this year. Stop by to introduce yourself or ask questions about services and activities. Learn about research, work, study, or funding opportunities–or how to find, submit, or cite data.

Booth 521

LTER Mixer at Altar Society Brew

Take the opportunity to connect with colleagues across the network at our mixer at (or near) ESA this year!

Wednesday August 7, 6:30 pm-8:00 pm

Altar Society Brew Co. 230 Pine Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802

Free LTER hats to the first 20 people!


Sunday, August 4

Short Courses

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | SC 01
Entering Mentoring – An Interactive Short Course on Evidence-Based Practices for Mentorship

9:00am – 12:00pm | SC 05
Explore and Work with Continental-Scale Biodiversity Data Using the ecocomDP R package: An Introduction to Analysis-Ready Data from NEON and the US LTER 

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | SC 14
Ecological Data Synthesis: A Primer on Essential Methods

Monday, August 5

Organized Oral Sessions

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | OOS-06
Long-Term Environmental Data Science: How the Evolving Life Cycles of Data, Observatory Networks, Synthesis Centers, and Careers are Shaping Ecology in the 21st Century

Contributed Oral Presentations

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM | COS 15-2
Signals of salt marsh drowning are obscured by increasing aboveground canopies

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | COS 1-3
Plant successional dynamics in prairie plantings integrated with rowcrops

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | COS 2-3
Atmospheric versus soil moisture: partitioning drivers of plant productivity in drylands

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | COS 11-6
Enacting long term ecological research through federal agency partnerships

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | COS 24-1
The future of fuel breaks: Reimagining community adaptation strategies to wildfires in the boreal forest that maximize socioecological benefits

Posters

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 3-021
Cross-season interactions and litter quality drive nitrogen oligotrophication in northern hardwood forests

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 3-038
Evidence of phosphorus and nitrogen co-limitation in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 12-134
Regional urbanization and climate dynamics drive changes in avian diversity and its associated ecosystem services across temporal scales

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 15-169
Exploratory analysis of 20+ years of data on kelp forest community structure from the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER Sampling Program

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 15-166
Material legacies as a result of disturbanece may indirectly alter physiology of tropical reef corals

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 6-061
Fungal endophytes in salt marshes: Foundational work regarding the interactions between Spartina alterniflora and fungi in a changing climate

Tuesday, August 6

Contributed Oral Presentations

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | COS 36-4
Plant community responses to early snowmelt in alpine tundra depends on snow depth and species composition

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | COS 54-1
Microbial community structure and function changes with age in coastal salt marshes.

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | COS 49-4
Scaling of organic matter stoichiometry from soils to streams across forest biomes

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm | COS 77-2
Physiological consequences of breeding later in a Neotropical migratory bird: implications for behavioral responses to a warmer, greener Autumn

Organized Oral Sessions

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | OOS 18-3
Advancing Ecological Understanding Through Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Infrastructure: The Flux Gradient Project

Posters

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | PS 19-023
Prairie plantings in agricultural fields support sustained increases in butterfly biodiversity

Wednesday, August 7

Contributed Oral Presentations

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | COS 108-1
What does the future look like? Investigating plant community change under a changing climate at the recruitment level in central New Mexico.

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | COS 115-1
Defoliation and demography interact to affect oak survival in southern New England

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | COS 106-2
Territory sizes and patterns of habitat use by forest birds over five decades: ideal free or ideal despotic?

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM | COS 107-5
Engaging teachers in your research: What does it look like? Exploring the design of collaborative teacher-researcher professional development programs

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM | COS 125-4
Testing the Stress Gradient Feedback Hypothesis: Host-affinity of pathogenic and ectomycorrhizal fungi across an abiotic stress gradient

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | COS 121-6
Tropical stream ecosystem responses to extreme events: the effects of drought and hurricanes

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | COS 150-3
A constructed treatment wetland makes a river in Phoenix AZ a real river—for a stretch

Organized Oral Sessions

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | OOS 35
The long-term maintenance of regenerative agriculture enhances soil health and climate resiliency.

Inspire Sessions

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM | INS-13
Development of Dryland Plant Rhizosphere Microbiome Across the Growing Season

Posters

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | PS 41-052
Down the rabbit hole: Modeling the impacts of moose and hare herbivory on postfire carbon and community trajectories in Interior Alaska

Thursday, August 8

Workshop

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM | WK 19
Data4Ecology.org — A Free Learning Platform for Facilitating Computational and Quantitative Skills in Undergraduate Ecology Courses

Contributed Oral Presentations

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM | COS 153-1
Effects of a Decade of Growing Season Warming and Winter Freeze/Thaw Cycles on Radial Growth of Trees in a Northern Hardwood Forest

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | COS 159-4
The role of phenotypic plasticity as a population-level buffering mechanism under global change

9:00 am – 9:15 am | COS 35-5
Mapping the spatial and temporal distribution of microbial mats in Fryxell basin in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM | COS 155-6
A cyclone and an extreme heat wave differentially impact the functional diversity of a coral reef fish community in Moorea, French Polynesia.

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | COS 200-1
Plant functional traits are altered by microbial responses to drought

Late Breaking Poster Sessions

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 2-016
Freshwater macroinvertebrate community composition and range shift potential among different alpine water bodies

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 7-073
Advancing Public Engagement Across Long-Term Ecological Research Sites: Supporting scientists and public engagement with science research through a working group model

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 8-078
Dynamics and impacts of a multi-decade aspen leaf miner outbreak in boreal Alaska

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 8-084
Association of plant functional traits on timing and concentration flowering and fruiting phenology in Luquillo tropical forests in Puerto Rico

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 17-166
Advancing Public Engagement Across Long-Term Ecological Research Sites: Community Perspectives at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Site

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | LB 20-190
Monitoring Changes in Vegetation Optical Depth and Canopy Water Content with GNSS Signals at a Tropical Moist Forest

Friday, August 9

Contributed Oral Presentations