<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As promised, here is your bimonthly update on progress for each of the projects identified in our second meeting. For your reference, the list of projects and leaders can also be found here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iML_EzPHvhQjNI50Z0ITYCGj58kiP7lbUBSog9aQ5IU/edit?usp=sharing" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iML_EzPHvhQjNI50Z0ITYCGj58kiP7lbUBSog9aQ5IU/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div class="">If you would like to contribute to one or more of these projects, then please feel free to contact the project leader(s) and offer ways to help. If you have questions, then please feel free to ask the project leaders or me. Thanks in advance for your contributions!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Forest, Jane, and Laura</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Nonrandom changes in biodiversity and EF led by Tim Newbold</b></div><div class="">No update at this time.</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">BEF causality review led by Laura Dee</b></div><div class="">Laura is working on revisions and an updated draft.</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">NutNet BEF causality analysis led by Laura Dee</b></div><div class="">No update at this time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Global Change Drivers, Coexistence mechanisms, and Scaling BEF led by Jane Cowles</b></div><div class="">Working with Laura Williams on framing the paper, focusing on whether we can group mechanisms into "coexistence mechanisms that are affected by productivity changes" (which would inherently have feedbacks) and "coexistence mechanisms that are unrelated to productivity" (which would not have the same feedback loop). This would fundamentally influence how the impacts of global change drivers on coexistence mechanisms would impact biodiversity-functioning relationships over space and time. If you're interested in thinking about this conceptually prior to the meeting, get in touch with Jane.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Instrumental variables in CDR experiments led by Jane Cowles</b></div><div class="">Beginning analyses and selection of instrumental variables in nitrogen addition experiments (to isolate the influence of productivity on biodiversity) and biodiversity experiments (to isolate the impact of species richness on productivity).</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Quantifying performance-enhancing insurance effects led by Forest Isbell</b></div><div class="">Data continue to trickle in. Forest has started analyzing data. This is an opt-out paper, so you will all (eventually) receive a draft of the manuscript with an invitation to collaborate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Global drivers of biodiversity loss (N) led by Yann Hautier</b></div><div class="">No update at this time.</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">SAR, EAR, and BEF led by Akira Mori</b></div><div class="">Working on the simulations that are necessary to estimate the number of species lost by 2070s. Because of computational limitations, this takes time. Akira hopes to have some preliminary results by the next meeting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Agenda 2049 led by Mary O’Connor</b></div><div class="">No update at this time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Global BEF led by Sasha Wright</b></div><div class="">No update at this time.</div></div></body></html>