LTER at ESA 2021

In 2021, the Ecological Society of America Meeting will be fully online. Tracking down LTER talks and sessions has been a bit more challenging this year than in previous years. Please use the form at the end of this page to submit your talk, session, or poster and the LTER Network Office will continue to update this page throughout the meeting. Most talks will also be available to registered participants after the meeting, so please use this page as a continuing resource through the coming year.

The live discussions assume that participants have watched the associated talks. For that reason, we have listed live sessions and the associated LTER talks first, in the order that the live sessions occur. Further down the page, you’ll find the list of contributed talks and posters authored by LTER investigators. Initials after a talk or session indicate the associated site or network. No initials indicate a session for which no LTER connection was identified, but in which an LTER talk will be discussed.

If your talk is missing, please submit the title and link though this form and we’ll add it…and next year, be sure to include LTER or Long Term Ecological Research in the title, abstract or bio.

Talks and sessions organized by LTER or EDI investigators

Monday, August 2

• 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Pacific Time
  INS 1: Interoperable Ecological Data – Putting the I into FAIR Data  (EDI)
  • Going public: The path from academia to public-facing data portals (NGA)
• 8:30 AM-9:30 AM Pacific Time
  OOS 3: Plant-microbe interactions in wetland ecosystems: challenges under increasing environmental pressures
  • Plant-microbe interactions in wetland ecosystems: challenges under increasing environmental pressures (PIE)
• 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 5: Leveraging FAIR data to discover new connections in ecology  (EDI)
  • Harmonizing microbial community data for broader biodiversity and ecological meta-analyses (LTER-SWG)
• 11:00-12:00 PM Pacific Time
  COS 14: Vital Connections in Ecology: Maintaining Ecological Resilience 1
  • Disturbance structures canopy and understory productivity along an environmental gradient: evidence from a 10-year experiment at Santa Barbara Coastal LTER (SBC)
  • Effects of chronic eutrophication on community and ecosystem resistance and resilience to drought (KNZ)
  • Megagrazer rewilding results in long-running and resilient biodiversity gains in a Great Plains grassland (KNZ)
• 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 8: When the tropics get drier: Lessons from natural and drought manipulation experiments in low-latitude forested ecosystems
  • Drought impacts on tropical forests: A multi-scale perspective (LUQ)
  • Luquillo throughfall exclusion experiment: Belowground effects of drought in a wet tropical forest (LUQ)
• 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Time
  COS 24: Communities: Disturbance And Recovery 1
  • Drought and disturbance in dryland ecosystems: Synergistic effects on productivity in a multi-site field experiment (JRN)
• INS 4: Building Belonging in Ecology: Networks as Connectors; Networks as Disruptors (LNO)
  • Belonging in a network inspires research about how students sense of belonging impacts science learning in field courses (UFERN)
  • Data + Community = Action: Making the invisible, visible
  • Global change research networks: Building communities without borders (HBR/USFS)
  • How “growing up” in collaborative science networks shapes your views on how science can be done
  • Networks as a community of practice for distributed science professionals (VCR)
  • The great paradox: Belonging in contradicting networks
  • The Virtual Field: From inertia to inclusion (OBFS)
  • What I’ve learned in 10 years of mentoring a new generation of ecologists (ESA)
• 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 9: Maintaining Vital Connections in Human Dimensions During a Global Pandemic
  • Navigating change in community-university partnerships: Maintaining vital connections during times of transition and disruption (CAP)

Tuesday, August 3

• 7:00 AM-8:00 AM Pacific Time
  OOS 12: Ecological Consequences of Variability in Climate (SEV)
  • Divergent response of aboveground net primary production to increasing precipitation variability in global drylands (SEV)
  • Dryland soil mycobiome response to precipitation variability depends on host plant association (JRN)
  • Population responses to past and future environmental variability across the LTER network (SEV)
  • Desert bee and rodent assemblages track climate variability (SEV)
• 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 21: Taking Stock of Trait-Based Community Ecology  (NWT)
  • How does functional diversity change along environmental gradients? (NWT)

Wednesday, August 4

• 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific
  COS 82: Remote Sensing And Image Analysis 1
  • Using multi-scale imagery and a novel landscape competition index to quantify shrub-shrub competition in the Jornada Basin (JRN)

• 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 30: Expanding the Field in Fieldwork: Connecting the Practice of Fieldwork with the Human Dimensions of the 4DEE Framework
• • Incorporating identity, place, and culture into a virtual REU experience: The research experience for undergraduates on sustainable land and water resources in summer 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic (MSP)
  • Reimagining the field to connect across barriers (BES)
• 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 32: The Consequences of Climate Change for Dryland Biogeochemistry
  • An extreme precipitation event, abrupt grass recovery, and soil processes in the Chihuahuan Desert (JRN)
  • A temporal perspective of nitrogen cycling in a semiarid grassland under extreme rainfall conditions (JRN)
• 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific
  COS 105: Vital Connections in Ecology: Multi-Trophic Interactions and Ecosystem Function 3
  • Alligator-engineered impacts on consumer nutrient dynamics and isotopic niche (FCE)

Thursday, August 5

• 7:00 AM-8:00 AM Pacific Time
  INS14: Collaborative Networks: Building Thriving Research Communities Vital to Ecosystem Science
  • Building partnerships to transform workplace climate across organizations and disciplines (ADVANCEGeo)
  • Building transdisciplinary partnerships for data synthesis to advance ecological understanding (LTER SWG)
  • The Nutrient Network: A collaborative experiment and an experiment in collaboration (CDR and NutNet)
  • The power of network science: Lessons from Drought-Net (KNZ & DroughtNet)
• 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 38: Causal inference in global change studies: new approaches and emerging opportunities
  • Causal inference in ecological experiments (BES/KNZ)
  • Uncovering how and why causal relationships vary in ecology: A case study with biodiversity-ecosystem functioning
• 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 42: Climate Intervention: Risks, Effects and Predicted Impacts for Biodiversity and Ecological Systems (ARC/KBS)
  • Effects of geoengineering on ecosystem processes (HBR)
• 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Pacific Time
  OOS 45: Microbial Connectivity across Ecotones
  • Impacts of precipitation and land use on terrestrial-aquatic microbiome connectivity (KNZ)

Pre-recorded talks in contributed sessions:

Science:

• Coastal carbon processing rates increase with mangrove cover following a hurricane in Texas, USA (FCE)
• Formation of a Mid-Atlantic ghost forest (VCR)

Outreach:

• Leveraging the data richness of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network to teach environmental data science (LNO)
• Ghosts of the Coast: Engaging citizen scientists to help document the formation of ghost forests (VCR)

Posters:

• Satellite estimates of grass productivity in a shrubby southwestern rangeland