The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community. These may include research seminars, discussions of emerging projects and methods, or the occasional organizational update. In 2025, LTER Community Calls are scheduled for every second Wednesday at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. MT / 11 a.m. CT / Noon ET)
We’ll hear from 2 synthesis groups focusing on resilience in (primarily) grassland systems.
The “Resilience of Productivity” working group, funded through the LTER Network Office, brings together, researchers, literatures, and data across “natural” and agro-ecosystems to build a better understanding of how climate and management interact to affect the resilience and continuing productivity of landscapes.
Dr. David Hoover, Research Ecologist, USDA
Dr. Olivia Hajek, POstdoctoral Research Associate University of Alaska, Fairbanks
“Grassland Rocks” is a working group of early-career researchers across LTER sites investigating ecosystem resistance and resilience to extreme climate events. The group assembled nearly 40 years of data from grassland plant communities at Cedar Creek, Kellogg Biological Station, and Konza Prairie LTER sites to test the relative importance of species richness, evenness, and dominance on ecosystem resistance and resilience to extreme wet and dry events.
