LTER Working Groups

The LTER Network has grown from a handful of independent sites to a true network with cross-site experiments, synthetic science, coordinated data management, and standard community practices. LTER community members managed a great deal of that growth, with modest financial support from the LTER Network Office in the form of working group funds. The record of past working groups is – in many ways – a record of the focus and priorities of the LTER Network through time.

Working Group Title	Principal Investigator	Type	Award Year	Final Report
From poles to tropics: A multi-biome synthesis investigating the controls on river Si exports	Joanna Carey, Babson College, KathiJo Jankowski, US Geological Survey	Synthesis	2020
Ecological Metagenome-derived Reference Genomes and Traits (EMERGENT)	Jeff Blanchard, UMass Amherst/HFR, Janet Jansson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Jorge Rodrigues, UC Davis, Lee Stanish, NEON, Margaret O’Brien, UC Santa Barbara, Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Synthesis	2020
A global synthesis of multi-year drought effects on terrestrial ecosystems	Kate Wilkins, Colorado State University, Osvaldo Sala, Peter Wilfahrt, University of Bayreuth, Laureano Gherardi, Melinda Smith	Synthesis	2020
Advancing soil organic matter research: Synthesizing multi-scale observations, manipulations & models	Will Wieder, Kate Lajtha	Research, Synthesis	2017
Scaling-Up Productivity Responses to Changes in Biodiversity	Forest Isbell, Jane M. Cowles, Laura Dee	Research, Synthesis	2017
Synthesizing population and community synchrony to understand drivers of ecological stability across LTER sites	Lauren Hallett, Daniel Reuman, Katharine Suding	Research, Synthesis	2017
Global Patterns in Stream Energy and Nutrient Cycling	Adam Wymore, Sujay Kaushal	Research, Synthesis	2016
A synthesis to identify how metacommunity dynamics mediate community responses to disturbance across the ecosystems represented in the LTER network	Eric Sokol, Christopher Swan, Nathan Wisnoski	Research, Synthesis	2016
Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers	Kimberly Komatsu, Meghan L. Avolio, Kevin R. Wilcox	Research, Synthesis	2016
Identifying Alternative Indicators for the Detection of Abrupt Transitions in Ecosystems: a Consideration of Time Scale and Community Parameters		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
The Ecosystem Sensitivity to Rainfall Experiment (EcoSeRE): Design and Synthesis		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Leveraging PASTA and EML-based Workflow Tools for LTER Data Synthesis		IM Product	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Managing sensor networks and data: Best practices for LTER		IM Product	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Sensitivity of ecosystem properties to winter climate anomalies		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Veg-DB Phase 2: Developing a cross-site system to improve development and access to synthetic vegetation databases		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Synthesis of stream ecosystem responses to nutrient enrichment at multiple trophic levels		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Training Workshop for Site Science Communicators		Training	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Enhancement of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary to Support Data Synthesis		IM Product	2012	Final Report (PDF)
2013 LTER Training Workshop Proposal – Remote Data Acquisition		Training	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Exploring the Seasonal Synchrony of Catchment Nitrogen Dynamics: The Search for a Unifying Theoretical Framework		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Training working group: Climate and streamflow seasonal trend analysis at LTER sites		Training	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Coastal Wetland Ecology and Geomorphology		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Soil Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Data and Development of Protocols for a New Long-Term, Network-Wide Data Stream		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Linking aquatic and soil organic matter across ecosystems through characterization of optical properties		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Training workshop: Software tools and strategies for managing sensor networks		Training	2012
Urban aquatic ecosystems: a synthesis working group proposal		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Beyond the Numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
GeoNIS Implementation with PASTA		IM Product	2012
Mechanisms of convergence and divergence: understanding the variability of plant community responses to multiple resource manipulations		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Cross site analysis and synthesis of the role of vegetation, sediment supply, sea level rise and storminess on intertidal coastal geomorphology		Post-doctoral	2012	Final Report (PDF)
A guide to successful graduate student socio-ecological research: Insights from the Long Term Ecological Research Network		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Cross site analysis and synthesis of arts and humanities engagement within LTER		Post-doctoral	2012	Final Report (PDF)
A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions	Eric Sokol	Post-doctoral	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Establishing High Quality Digital Collections of LTER Educational Resources		Post-doctoral	2012
Responses of soft sediment coastal ecosystems to sea level rise and coastal squeeze in the LTER Network		Synthesis	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Atmospheric correction to LTER Landsat catalog		Post-doctoral	2012	Final Report (PDF)
Development and analysis of a database of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery to support cross-site research		Post-doctoral	2011	Final Report (PDF)
Retrieving and using information from web services to improve EML content		Training	2011
Veg-DB: Developing a cross-site system to improve access to vegetation synthetic databases		Synthesis	2011	Final Report (PDF)
Land Use Institutions, Land Use Land Cover Change, and the Distribution of Ecosystem Services		Synthesis	2011
The influence of precipitation variability on diversity and composition of North American grasslands		Synthesis	2011	Final Report (PDF)
SiteDB redesign to accommodate ClimDB/HydroDB and StreamChemDB		IM Product	2011
Acquisition and management of data from remote locations		Training	2011	Final Report (PDF)
Drupal Environmental Information Management System (DEIMS) workshop: A workshop for new and advanced DEIMS users		Training	2011	Final Report (PDF)
EML Diagnosis and Best Practice Implementation Mentor		IM Compensation	2011
Integrating Local Knowledge into Long Term Ecological Research – MALS Training and Planning Workshop		Training	2011	Final Report (PDF)
LTER Personnel Database Web Services Development		IM Compensation	2011
Tools and training for sensor network establishment and management		Training	2011
Bi-stability in North American ecosystems: analyzing woody plant cover for temporal stable-state dynamics		Synthesis	2011	Final Report (PDF)
Climate effects on ANPP of saltmarshes of the North American Atlantic coast – a hierarchical model approach		Post-doctoral	2011	Final Report (PDF)

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