[LTER-commcom] Update - LTER Futures special feature

[Doll, Julie]

Hello!

I submitted the list of reviewers for the LTER Futures papers this morning. For each paper, I listed one Comm Comm member as the first reviewer – see below for assignments. Of course, if you can’t do it just let me know. (Not on the list and bummed out by that?
Email me!)

A little background on this project (sorry for the delay on this info, Alex!). Under Peter Groffman’s leadership, folks from across the Network thought hard about what we’ve learned from our long-term data sets and what we can say about the future of Earth’s ecosystems. They submitted short syntheses to Peter; he and others spent hours compiling them into 5 papers (see below). He reached out to the journal Ecosphere and pitched the idea of a special feature for these stories – they loved the idea!

Right now we’re in the review process for the papers. They’ve all been submitted to Ecosphere and I just submitted a list of 6 potential reviewers for each paper. Our hope is that they are reviewed by one member of this committee (for flow, cohesiveness) and one scientist (for content). I’d really like this committee to provide some consistent suggestions to each of the lead authors for making the papers more cohesive as a special feature.

I am hopeful we’ll all read ALL of the papers at some point, as we have talked about plans to use these papers as a platform for doing some exciting communication activities.


  1.  Kristin Weiss - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of state changes
  2.  Alex Rose - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: Cascading effects
  3.  Lina DiGregorio - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of connectivity in space and time to ecosystem dynamics
  4.  Marty Downs - Ecosystem trajectories, resilience, and the state of our future earth: insight from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
  5.  Sarah Garlick - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long-term Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of time lags

All best,
Julie

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Julie E. Doll, Ph.D.

Education & Outreach Specialist
Agriculture & Ecology

Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Program
Michigan State University

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