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2020</span></p>

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Mirror Lake Road</span></p>

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Woodstock, NH 03262 USA</span></p>

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Manager<span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">                  Recently,
coauthors </span><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Jackson Helms IV, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Christie Bahlai, Nick
M. Haddad</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> and I submitted the manuscript “<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">How long do population level field experiments need to
be?  Repurposing data from the 40-year old LTER network</span>” to be published
as original research in <i>Ecology Letters</i>. <b>Included
in the analysis is data repurposed from your LTER. </b>Please find a draft of the manuscript attached
to this email.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">In our
study, we sought to determine what </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">aspects of study taxa or environment alter the duration of research
necessary to detect consistent results in long term research. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">We leveraged the wealth of data available through the forty-year-old
Long-term Ecological Research database network portal to identify and repurpose
relevant long-term experimental datasets. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Our search
resulted in 100 datasets from 28 distinct studies and 12 LTER sites.</span> We
were interested in the consistency of trends over time, rather than in the trends
themselves. In this way, our manuscript is a novel use of your data, and makes
no claims about the ecological implications of the trends we found.  In the manuscript, we explicitly warn that ecological
results taken from individual datasets should be interpreted with a degree of caution.
</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">We are distributing
the manuscript to LTER sites from which the data was retrieved with two primary
goals:<b> 1) notification and consent of dataset use, and 2) in the interest of
correctly acknowledging authors and appropriate funding sources.</b> Below is the
citation we plan to use:</span></p>

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S. 2019. Gastropod abundance at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Watershed 1 and
West of Watershed 6, 1997-2006 ver 4. Environmental Data Initiative.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/7ab1863e56f8cc823b3c7f966bc8f43d">https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/7ab1863e56f8cc823b3c7f966bc8f43d</a> (Accessed
2020-12-14).</span></p>

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additions or </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">if you see our use of these data in conflict
with yours</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">. We ask you to <b>include specific funding
or grant numbers</b> that you would like acknowledged.  To meet the deadline recommended by our
reviewers, the turnaround must be rapid. We expect to resubmit the manuscript
no later than <b>Monday Jan 18^th 2021 </b>and apologize for the
short notice. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please acknowledge receipt of this email, and
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