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TRENDS

Published January 16, 2023

Principal Investigator(s):
Products:

    Publications:

    1) Our Changing World: Long Term Trends in Ecological Systems. Peters, D. P. C. et al. in preparation.

    2) Peters, DPC & CM Laney. 2006. EcoTrends in long-term ecological research project. Jornada Trails 10(1): 2.

    3) Laney, CM & DPC Peters. 2006. EcoTrends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a collaborative synthesis project, introduction and update. Databits Spring 2006.

    Other products: Presentations:

    4) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney, organizers of the evening session, Trends in Long Term Ecological Research: opportunities and challenges in the synthesis of long term data. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006.

    5) Peters, D.P.C. Opportunities for network-level analyses emerging from the TRENDS project. Plenary session talk, LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006.

    6) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends: The adventure continues. Annual LTER Information Management Meeting, San Jose, CA, August 2007.

    Posters:

    7) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. Trends in Long-Term Ecological Data: a multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 91st Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. August 2006.

    8) Peters, D.P.C. and C. M. Laney. EcoTrends: A multi-agency synthesis project. Ecological Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, San Jose, TN. August 2007.

    Other products: Working Groups:

    9) Laney, C.M., K. Ramsey and M. Servilla. Information management issues and the Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible. LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006.

    10) Servilla, M. Trends Project: Spaghetti & Linguine (aka Trends Data Store). LTER All-Scientists’ Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2006.

    11) Laney, C.M. EcoTrends approach to re-sampling, integrating incomplete, qualified primary data. LTER Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products. Las Cruces, NM, February 2007. Website: http://www.ecotrends.info/EcoTrends/ .

Meeting Dates:
  • July 25, 2006 - July 28, 2006: ,
  • February 14, 2006 - February 16, 2006: ,
Synthesis Products:
  • No products are yet available for this synthesis project.
Participants:
  • Scott Collins
  • Bob Waide
  • James Brunt
  • Ken Ramsey
  • Chistine Laney
  • Deb Peters
  • Mark Servilla
  • Inigo san Gill
  • Marshall White
  • Peter Groffman
  • Ariel Lugo
  • Tim Kratz
  • Mark Ohman
  • Charley Driscoll
  • Morgan Grove
  • Charlene d'Avanzo
  • Wade Sheldon
  • John Magnuson
  • Don Henshaw
  • Mark Schildhauer
Sites Represented:
  • HBR, BES, AND, NTL, JRN, LUQ, CCE, NWK, GCE

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