Documents — Scientific Reports

The general goal of the workshop was to complete and extend our cross-site synthetic research begun in previous meetings supported by this x-site program. At the end of the workshop we decided to plan to host two additional workshops in order to (1) finish a manuscript based on our previous analysis of the ecological consequences of shrub expansion in grasslands and (2) to strategize regarding additional data collection needs to strengthen our synthetic database focused on LTER and non-LTER sites across North America.

2006 All Scientists Meeting Synthetic Paleoecology Workshop Report – submitted by James Rusak

Submitted by Theresa Valentine.

Education Section Working Group Ancillary Day ASM Meeting Sept 2006

ASM working group summary.

Report of the LTER-ASM Working Group – Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems, 23 Sep 2006

Report from LTER ASM Workshop entitled “Status of Emerging Environmental Observatories and Opportunities for LTER Collaboration”–September 23, 2006–Organizer(s): William Michener (LNO), Todd Crowl – LUQ

Working Group (session 6 & 7, group 1) Report from the LTER 2006 ASM. Working Group Title: The Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream Ecosystems. Organizers: Jennifer Follstad Shah, Chelsea Crenshaw, Alex Huryn.

Working Group (Session 5, group 10) Report for LTER 2006 ASM. Working Group Title: Effect of Nitrogen-Fixing Plants on Diversity and Species Interactions. Organizers: Jennifer Follstad Shah, Joe Fargione, Scott Collins

This is the Workshop report for sessions 11 and 12, Sat. Sept. 23. Please forward a confirmation of this arrival. Thanks, Alvin Smucker and Chuck Rice Co-organizers

Summary of workshop held during ASM 2006

This file contains a summary and participant list for an LTER All Scientists Meeting working group entitled Plant community responses to nitrogen enrichment: Results from a cross site synthesis. The working group took place on Saturday Sept. 23, 2006.

I am not sure if Morgan Grove sent this in or not, and so to be safe I am attaching a copy of the final report that came from the Disproportionality workshop held at the ASM. Thanks, Pete

This document contains notes from the LTER ASM 2006 Biogeochemical Complexity working group.

Report: Working Group – Ecosystem Response to Changes in Climate in Cold Regimes 21 Sept, 2006

list of attendees, notes from presentations and notes from discussion for workshop on Ecosystem Informatics Education and Research, which took place on Friday morning 9-12, Sept 22, 2006

Full Title: Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives of the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Authors: Amy J. Symstad, F. Stuart Chapin III, Diana H. Wall, Katherine L. Gross, Laura F. Huenneke, Gary G. Mittelbach, Debra P.C. Peters, and David Tilman. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Discussion of how research at individual LTER sites and cross-site studies have increased ecological knowledge and understanding across broader scales. Authors: Timothy K. Kratz, Linda A. Deegan, Mark E. Harmon, and William K. Lauenroth. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

An exploration of why environmental history is emerging as an integral part of ecological science and conservation planning. Authors: David Foster, Frederick Swanson, John Aber, Ingrid Burke, Nicholas Brokaw, David Tilman, and Alan Knapp. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Describes the LTER network’s contribution to efforts at modeling and projecting short-term, plot-scale knowledge to broader scales. Authors: Edward B. Rastetter, John D. Aber, Debra P.C. Peters, Dennis S. Ojima, and Ingrid C. Burke. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Selected findings from the LTER program are described in the field of biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Focus on Palmer and North Temperate Lakes data. Authors: David Greenland, Bruce P. Hayden, John J. Magnuson, Scott V. Ollinger, Roger A. Pielke Sr., and Raymond C. Smith. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Introduction to the LTER network and how it’s research approach compares to that of other networks. Author: John E. Hobbie. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Describes the then-24 projects of the LTER and the fundamental and applied ecological issues that can be understood only through a long-term approach. Authors: John E. Hobbie, Stephen R. Carpenter, Nancy B. Grimm, James R. Gosz, and Timothy R. Seastedt. From BioScience, January 2003/Vol. 53 No. 1.

Description of videoteleconferencing, web conferencing, and collaboration portal options for meetings and working groups in the LTER Network. Revised June 7, 2006. By James Brunt and John Vande Castle.

Rick Ingersoll An Update to the 1991 – 1993 Surveys: This report is meant to complement and update the original (1991) version and the 1992-93 updates, rather than supersede them. The objective is to point out differences in the observations and conclusions of the previous reports and, as a consequence, important points in those earlier documents will not necessarily be repeated here. It should be noted that although the cover of the original report indicated that the survey had been conducted in January 1992, the survey was actually conducted in the autumn of 1991.

Rick Ingersoll and Scott E. Chapal January 1992 Report of LTER electronic data collection survey.

List of the LTER Numbered series publications.

A Report from a National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop 12-14 August 2003 Scripps Institute of Oceanography Deborah Estrin Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) University of California, Los Angeles William Michener & Gregory Bonito Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and the Workshop Participants

The interest in microbial studies within the LTER program is evident by email and fax responses incorporated here, from a request for information from LTER principal investigators. This information is a starting point for documenting existing work in microbial investigations as the LTER program coordinates its efforts toward an integrated LTER Microbial Observatory.

Web Access to Long-Term Research Hydrology Data. By Doug Ryan (USDA Forest Service Research and Development)

17 Oct 2001

The LTER Committee on Microbial Ecology – Microbes are essential for the functioning of ecological systems. Vital microbial processes include decomposition and mineralization, many aspects of the nitrogen cycle (e.g., nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification), plant nutrient uptake via mycorrhizal associations, microbial nutrient immobilization, the production of biomass to fuel ecosystem food webs, and the breakdown of toxic materials. While ecologists have developed methods to measure many of the rates of these processes, most have effectively ignored the microbes themselves.

Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites manage a diverse array of ecological information resulting from research on ecological succession, disturbance, landscape ecology, elemental cycling, trophic structure, biodiversity, organic matter and primary productivity. Since its inception in 1980, the LTER Network has evolved from a primarily site-based research focus to a network and cross-site focus. Coincident with this evolution has been the development of metadata standards.

More than 100 individuals attended a two-day workshop (August 8-9, 1997) entitled Data and Information Management in the Ecological Sciences that was held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Objectives of the workshop were to: effect technology transfer, especially at biological field stations and marine laboratories; facilitate people networking; communicate training needs and opportunities; identify future needs for data management at field stations; and produce hard copy and digital versions of the proceedings.

The Climates of the Long-Term Ecological Research Sites. 1987. Report maintained on-line Each LTER site maintains a climate database and at many sites climate data represent the longest data set available. Increasing attention to possible ecological consequences of global change requires an understanding climate variabilities and the potential for rapid directional climate change. This electronic report describes climatic variability, climatic change scenarios, and individual climate and water budget analyses performed at 18 LTER sites. Greenland, D.

The Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Biotic Systems, is mandated to pursue ecological research over long time periods at a variety of sites throughout the United States. Climate research is recognized by both ecologists and climatologists as having a key role in long-term ecological research. Each LTER site maintains its own climate program and at many sites climate data represent the longest data set available.

Report of X-Roots/LTER Climate Mini-Workshop, May 16-17, 1996 at UCDavis

LTER Network Office Publication #20: Guidelines for Measurements of Woody Detritus in Forest Ecosystems. This publication describes some of the most common methods used to quantify the amount and dynamics of woody detritus in forest ecosystems. A hierarchical scheme is presented that will help assure data comparability for intersite studies.

Final Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Future of Long-term Ecological Data (FLED) Vol. 1 Volume I: Text of the Report, submitted by Katherine L. Gross, Chair and Catherine E. Pake, Research Associate, December 1995

Final Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Future of Long-term Ecological Data (FLED) Vol. 2 Volume II: Directories to Sources of Long-Term Ecological Data, submitted by Katherine L. Gross, Chair and Catherine E. Pake, Research Associate, December 1995

Meeting the Challenge of Long-term, Broad-scale Ecological Experiments. 1995. Hard-copy only. This report describes an example of a 10-year, 28-site experiment to test the efect of substrate quality and macroclimate on long-term decompositiona nd nutrient dynamics. Harmon, M., and the Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET). 1995. Meeting the Challenge of Long-Term, Broad-Scale Ecological Experiments.

LTER Network Office Publication #17: International Networking in Long-Term Ecological Research: Proceedings of an International Summit This book, published in 1994, represents the nascent effort to solidify an International LTER network. Hosted by the NSF and the LTER Network Office, representatives from 16 countries presented their long-term research and their interests in forming an International LTER Network

Greenland, David. (ed). 1994. El Nino and Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites. Publication No. 18. LTER Network Office: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque USA. 57 pp. Six papers, or shorter contributions, describe studies of analysis of climatic, or proxy climatic, data at or near the following five LTER sites: Sevilleta (NM), Niwot Ridge (CO), Andrews (OR), Konza Prairie (KS), and North Temperate Lakes (WI). LTER areas and regions for the most part display El Nino signals consistent to those already found in continental scale studies.

At the 1993 All-Scientists Meeting, Rich Boone and I offered to compile information on soil surveys and soil maps available for each LTER site. As of early December, 12 sites had responded:

Abstract Runkle, James R. 1992. Guidelines and sample protocol for sampling forest gaps. Gen.Tech.Rep.PNW-GTR-283. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 44 p. Comparative studies of forest structure and dynamics require standardized methods. A protocol for sampling forest canopy gaps is presented. Methods used in published gap studies are reviewed. The sample protocol will be useful in developing a broader understanding of forest structure and dynamics through comparative studies across different forest ecosystems.

Data management workshop at which representatives from field stations and coastal marine stations examined the state of data management. Held at Kellogg Biological Station, April 22-26, 1990.

LTER Data Management Meeting San Antonio, TX; 1-3 August 1991. The meeting was devoted to assessing LTER Data Management (DM) activities since the 1990 Workshop and forming five working groups to address specific topics.

This report was prepared in response to a request from the National Science Foundation to analyze the status of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network technical supplements and to assess future technical needs. It provides a history of technical supplements in 1989 and 1990, and a snapshot view of several important technologies across the Network as of September 1990. Since that time, use of Ingres as a relational database management system has become more widespread across the Network.

1990s Global Change Action Plan. 1990. In recognition of the critical importance of ecological research in understanding, predicting and ameliorating global change, a group of scientists representing 25 research sites met in November 1989 to consider how a network of ecological sites might contribute to research on global change. Network Office Publication Number 4. 1990s Global Change Action Plan: Utilizing a Network of Ecological Research Sites. November 1989, Colorado.