[LTER-BioProd] Biodiversity Grand Challenges paper - update

[Laura D.]

Wonderful!!!!! Thanks Mary - fingers crossed!

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:07 AM Mary O'Connor <oconnor at zoology.ubc.ca>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Thanks for the feedback by the end of Feb, as requested! It took me a
> couple weeks to get it all wrapped up, and then I submitted our
> pre-submission request to PRSB, as required by the journal. The Reviews
> editor was way for a few weeks, hence the delay. I just heard back that we
> can submit our review, so I will do that today or tomorrow. That’s the
> update! So now, figures crossed and I’ll send around the submitted version
> when I’m done.
>
> Best,
>
> Mary
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dr. Mary O'Connor
> Associate Professor, Department of Zoology
> Associate Director, Biodiversity Research Centre
> University of British Columbia
>
> ph: 604-827-5653
> oconnor at zoology.ubc.ca
> oconnorlab.weebly.com
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2021, at 10:36 AM, Mary O'Connor <oconnor at zoology.ubc.ca>
> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I hope you and yours are doing all right. I’m writing with the "Agenda
> paper", ready to submit and just need your final ‘OK’ or any minor feedback!
>
> Update:
>
> As you know, this has proceeded in fits and starts over the last few
> years. I thought we were done in summer 2019, but a few good points were
> raised around that time that required a bit more work on my part, and here
> we are. Last summer (2020) I presented this at ESA and around that time,
> got good and careful comments and contributions on the MS from our core
> writing team (Forest, Akira, Laura, Andy G). I have incorporated all those
> comments, and have also updated the manuscript a little bit since our
> original drafting (3 years ago!).
>
> I hope you like it! I’d like to submit it by the end of Feb to Proceedings
> of the Royal Society. Right now I’m simply asking for your ‘ok’. If there
> are revisions needed that can wait till we get reviews, I will happily take
> them and file them for that time; if things need to be done before we
> submit, I will do my best!. The ms hasn’t changed much since summer so if
> your read it then you have a good idea of where it is. If you haven’t read
> it in a few years, I suggest you do take a quick look.
>
> Finally, you will see that William Cheung has joined us as a co-author and
> on this email. William is a colleague at UBC and has been a contributor and
> co-author on the IBPES modelling scenarios and the scenarios chapter to
> which we refer in this paper, so I’m very grateful he has joined us and
> provided his comments on the ms as well.
>
> Action items (in summary):
>
> 1. Please confirm that you’re ok for me to submit this to PRSB
> 2. Please send me your address or add it in a comment in the ms.
> 3. OPTIONAL: help with figures if you are inspired
> 4. OPTIONAL: minor edits for pre-submission, major edits for post-review
> 5. OPTIONAL: Box 3 needs a little work, I think, and I wonder if one of
> you who originally drafted it could finalize it?
>
> A few loose ends on the figures remain to be tied up, which I will do
> while you review. If you have time AND see opportunities to improve
> figures, I welcome that help at this stage! (There were some issues I
> couldn’t resolve with the figures we had before, but if you miss them and
> would like help revise, we can discuss how to do that; it is possible).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mary
>
> <O'Connor et al Grand Challenges.pdf>
> <O'Connor et al GC Boxes and Figures_Feb32021.docx>
> <O'Connor et al GC Box 3.docx>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dr. Mary O'Connor
> Associate Professor, Department of Zoology
> Associate Director, Biodiversity Research Centre
> University of British Columbia
>
> ph: 604-827-5653
> oconnor at zoology.ubc.ca
> oconnorlab.weebly.com
>
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