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Harvard Forest Postdoc – Understanding the New England Land System

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Open as of September 1, 2019 and will continue until an excellent candidate is found. The Harvard Forest invites applications for a post-doctoral research position to contribute to a multi-institutional study of forest change in New England. The successful candidate will be a member of Jonathan Thompson’s Landscape Ecology Lab and be part of the… Read more »

Two Positions: Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

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Forest Carbon Cycle Science The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position (9 month, 1.0 FTE) in Forest Carbon Cycle Science. We welcome applicants with diverse areas of research expertise, including biogeosciences, earth system science, biometeorology, ecological modeling, ecosystem ecology, socio-ecological systems and global change, who are conducting… Read more »

Project Coordinator, Center for Ecosystem Climate Solutions, UC Irvine

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The Center for Advancing Ecosystem Climate Solutions seeks a Project Coordinator to help organize and manage the newly-created Innovation center. The Center is based at UC Irvine and includes faculty from UC Merced, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford and San Diego State. The Center’s mission is to develop geospatial tools to assess, understand and manage… Read more »

Synthesis: What, Why, and How

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The LTER Network Office at UCSB is fielding a new call for synthesis proposals with a deadline of October 23, 2019, so we are taking liberties with the format of this newsletter to bring readers a few thoughts on the variety of research that constitutes synthesis, the reasons we find it valuable, and a sampling… Read more »

Synthesis group: metacommunity dynamics and community responses to disturbance

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Plans We set out to answer the general question: How do metacommunity dynamics mediate community responses to disturbance across the ecosystems represented in the LTER network? Metacommunity theory provides a framework to predict when different types of community assembly processes should control the composition of the species pool both at local and regional scales. Thus,… Read more »

Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers: Toward an explanation of patterns and improved global predictions

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Background and plans Many global change drivers (GCDs) lead to chronic alterations in resource availability. As communities change through time in response to these GCDs, the magnitude and direction of ecosystem responses are also predicted to change in a non-linear fashion. We proposed to examine whether plant community dynamics are predictive of shifts in ecosystem… Read more »