The theme of the 2023 Ecological Society of America meeting, “for all ecologists” resonates strongly for the LTER Network. Broadening participation in research has been an important element of site and network activities in recent years. We also strive to engage community and implementation partners as well as students and educators. 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 this form 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 exhibit booth 448 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.
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Short Course 11 – Explore and Work with Continental-Scale Biodiversity Data: An Introduction to Analysis-Ready NEON and US LTER Data Using Cloud-Native Tools; 1:00-4:00 p.m PT
Monday, August 7, 2023
Individual Contributed and Invited Talks
- 1:45 pm COS 7-2 – Infrastructure to factorially manipulate the mean and variance of precipitation in the field
- 1:45 pm | COS 8-2 – Small frequent rain events drive belowground production in Chihuahuan Desert grassland
- 2:45 pm | COS 2-6 – Land use change, nutrient pollution, and sedimentation seasonality in a South Pacific coral reef island system
Posters – 5:00-6:30 pm
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Special Sessions
- 11:45 am-1:15 pm | SS 19 – Expanding Availability, Accessibility, and Usability of Omic Data: Status and Future Directions
Organized Oral Session
- 3:30-5:00 pm | OOS 30 – Examining Species Interactions with Long-term Tree Plots
Individual Contributed and Invited Talks
- 9:15 am | COS 66-6 – Constraining life history processes to inform a spatial demographic model of giant kelp in the Santa Barbara Channel
- 10:45 am | COS 74-4 – Long term alpine plant responses to global changes depend on their functional traits
- 2:00 pm | COS 102-3 – Land management influences diazotroph biodiversity and soil carbon and nitrogen cycling
- 2:00 pm | COS 102-3 – Land management influences diazotroph biodiversity and soil carbon and nitrogen cycling
- 1:45 pm | COS 104-2 – Soil bacterial community responses to multiple climate stressors in an early successional plant community
- 3:30 pm | OOS 30-1 – Using networks of long-term tree plot measurements to understand species interactions: Opportunities and challenges
- 4:30 pm | OOS 30-5 – The influence of microclimate on avian antagonistic interactions in forest ecosystems
- 4:45 pm | OOS 30-6 – Insights into drivers of tree species coexistence from Harvard Forest
- 4:45 pm | COS 120-6 – Long-term soil warming interacts with mycorrhizal tree type to constrain ecosystem carbon loss in a mixed arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal forest
Posters – 5:00-6:30 pm
- PS 25-85 – Feedbacks between plant community properties and resilience under contrasting precipitation extremes
- PS 32-204 – Visualizing tritrophic patterns in an ecosystem
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Special sessions and Symposia
- 1:30-3:00 pm | SYMP 19 – Ecosystem Transitions Across Ecosystems; From Basic to Applied
Individual Contributed and Invited Talks
- 8:15 am | COS 147-2 – Conditional drought resistance in mesic oak savanna under experimental nutrient resource availability
- 8:45 am | COS 146-4 – Inclusion of plant functional traits improves representation of an alpine tundra hillslope gradient in a land surface model
- 9:15 am | COS 157-6 – High among-species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across two abiotic gradients
- 9:30 am | Kelpwatch.org: A Publicly Available Tool for the Visualization & Analysis of Global Kelp Canopy Dynamics (at the NASA hyperwall)
- 10:15 am | COS 173-2 – Sand dynamics drive kelp forest community structure and stability
- 10:45 am | COS 173-4 – Spatial synchrony cascades across ecosystem boundaries and up food webs via resource subsidies
- 11:15 am | COS 163-6 – How have three decades of land use change impacted plant productivity and water use at the KBS LTER site?
- 11:00 am | COS 168-5 – Temporal versus spatial variation in functional traits and their implications in forest tree species’ acclimation potential
- 2:00 pm | COS 195-3 – Predicting temporal stability from its resistance and resilience components
- 2:00 pm | COS 186-3 – Long-term soil warming mediates relationships between root exudation and soil carbon dynamics
- 2:30 pm | COS 195-5 – Effect of fire and grazing interaction in the context of patch-burn grazing on multifunctionality in Tallgrass Prairie
- 4:45 pm | COS 226-6 – How faith-owned land contributes to the habitat matrix in three US cities
- 4:45 pm | COS 217-6 – Understanding the drivers of kelp forest recovery after severe marine heatwaves
Posters – 5:00-6:30 pm
- Adapting to changing methodology in a long-term experiment
- Fungal Evolution in Response to Chronic Soil Warming
- Long-term declines in nitrous oxide emissions in Eastern U.S. forests
- Long-term floral synchrony across common dryland ecosystem types declined over the last 2 decades, although nonlinear relationships with climate suggest more complex interactions
- Long-term stream chemistry patterns in a boreal watershed underlain with discontinuous permafrost
- Quantifying the impact of dominant state changes on soil microbial diversity in dryland ecosystems
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Organized Oral Session
- 1:30-3:00 pm | OOS 62 – Understanding Patterns and Drivers of Plant Reproduction Through Synthesis
Individual Contributed and Invited Talks
- 8:30 am | COS 230-3 – Experimental advancement of snowmelt timing influences flowering phenology and insect visitation to mid-season flowering plants in an alpine ecosystem
- 9:15 am | COS 245-6 – Modeling habitat suitability for soil biocrusts using remotely sensed and in-situ survey data in an Antarctic desert
- 10:45 am | COS 250-4 – Effects of precipitation and defoliation on Black grama cover in the Jornada Basin
- 11:15 am | COS 256-1 – Disentangling the interactions between abiotic and biotic factors on successful coastal shrub establishment
- 1:30 pm | OOS 62-1 – Cross-species synchrony in mast-seeding patterns across LTER sites
- 2:00 pm | COS 283-3 – Are there broad-scale patterns in litter chemical dynamics throughout decomposition?
- 2:00 pm | OOS 59-3 – Predicting biodiversity dynamics in kelp forests by integrating food web data with long-term remote sensing data
- 2:45 pm | COS 294-6 – Beginning the next quarter-century of urban research by the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Program (CAP)
- 3:30 pm | OOS 63-2 – Impacts of shrub encroachment on soil seed bank dynamics in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert, U.S.A.
- 3:45 pm | OOS 63-3 – Assessing aboveground vegetation dynamics alongside seed bank sampling in response to shrub management
Posters – 5:00-6:30 pm
LB 18-154 – Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
